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Quotes About Life

Life could not be lived backward. There was no undoing the regret, but she could make one last attempt to seek forgiveness.
~ Unknown
No matter what happened in the past, what you did or she didn't do, nothing can change that. All you got is now and you don't know for how long.
~ Unknown
It's life, Alice. We can either choose to live it, or lose it. Grant has years ahead, but he's got to let go of his bitterness.
~ Unknown
Life was filled with so many twists and turns, like the sides of a prism, giving off light; what seemed wrong before seemed almost right when viewed from a different angle.
~ Unknown
Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.
~ Mary Caroline Richards
Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until noveltyt and entertainmet are built up as positive experiences.
~ Mary Catherine Bateson
Death is also the moment of a gift that the old give to the young, a last opportunity to teach about life, but is so shaped by accident and happenstance that the moment may pass and wisdom is often unexpressed. The young stand by, wanting to give back to their parents some fraction of the care given to them, hoping that their parents will meet death in a way that softens the anticipation of death in their own lives and reconfirms their sense of the integrity or generosity of their parents.
~ Mary Catherine Bateson
We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.
~ Mary Chapin Carpenter
We've got two lives -- one we're given and the other one we make.
~ Mary Chapin Carpenter
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
~ Mary Cholmondeley
All the earth is made anew-- Far the false, and fair the true-- Where a little life begins, Free of sorrow, free of sins, And Baby comes.
~ Unknown
I stand upon the downs of life, And watch two barks of Fate sail in; The waves and winds are all at strife, I sadly wonder who will win.
~ Unknown
Love is an energy - it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness...Love will never die.
~ Bryce Courtney
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
~ Victor Hugo
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
~ Lily Tomlin
I dont see myself as unloved because I was given up; I see it as an ultimate act of sacrifice and love on my birth mothers behalf because she wanted a better life for me then she could have provided me with.
~ Unknown
Life without love is life lost, but life with a love is two lives saved.
~ Unknown
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face
~ George Eliot
For the first time in a long time, my life is real. It doesn't matter who ends up with who. And in some unearthly way its always gonna be you and me...soulmates. What we have goes beyond friendship...beyond lovers...its forever.
~ Dawson's Creek
The birthday of my life is come, my love is come to me.
~ Christina Georgina Rossetti
Life is so short, so fast the lone hours fly, We ought to be together, you and I
~ Henry Alford
My sisters have taught me how to live.
~ Unknown
Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.
~ Unknown
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'
~ Victor Frankl