Quotes About Life

Attitude aside, a man in a five–hundred–dollar suit, no matter how wrinkled or soiled, does not take to street life nearly as easily as a fish takes to smog. First

Life's funny that way, kind of like a dad who thinks it's hilarious to tie his kid up in a dark closet and leave him there for the weekend. Yeah,

We need to grab joy whenever and wherever we find it. Certainly

Welcome to the barship Fools' Glory. I'm the head honcho, John Murphy. And you are the Supreme Exalted Dictator for Life. A bit long. Mind if I call you Dicky for short?

You're drunk, I assume." "Of course. Got a bottle nearby and everything." "Good. I know how you get when you're sober." "Mom, I have been drunk every day of my life with only a handful of exceptions since I was eight years old. I'm not going to risk being sober without a very good reason. You know that better than anyone," said Mosie. "I know, but a mother worries.

Over the door of Bulfinche's Pub, there was a saying in Gaelic, Maireann dóchas is gliodar. Translated it means hope and happiness never die. There have been times of late that they seemed to be on life support. With luck, they'd make a full recovery and spread all around our world. Corny? Yep, but I've been called worse. And honestly, if things were a little more corny, we might all be a bit better off.

But achievements differ in different men. It is not for me, unfortunately so, to build a solid house and live in it the kind of life that is lived in such houses. That is why' - and he began guzzling his wine - 'it is disturbing,' he said. 'Honest people can destroy most effectually such foundations as some of us have.

Vuestra vida se aleja como el sol poniente, la muerte se acerca como las sombras de la noche.

Ten presente el ejemplo de una vaca vieja, que se da por satisfecha durmiendo en un cobertizo. Tienes que comer, dormir y cagar, eso es inevitable, lo demás no es asunto tuyo.

I've given up on normal as a life goal, having realized that 'normal' is just a setting on one's dryer.

It seems God had a plan I would never had thought of, and he decided to spring it on me in a most unexpected way.

I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.

For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. For nothing is more precious than the life force and may the love of that force guide you as you go.

Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.

Why do we write? A chorus erupts. Because we cannot simply live.

I'm off balance, not sure what's wrong. —You have misplaced joy, he said without hesitation. Without joy, we are as dead. —How do I find it again? —Find those who have it and bathe in their perfection.

In my way of thinking, anything is possible. Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.

Shard by shard we are released from the tyranny of so-called time. A curtain of purple wisteria partially conceals the entrance to a familiar garden... In a wink, a lifetime, we pass through the infinite movements of a silent overture.

Closure is an illusion, the winking of the eye of a storm. Nothing is completely resolved in life, nothing is perfect. The important thing is to keep living because only by living can you see what happens next." - on Murakami's 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage' in The New York Times

I drew no line between life and art. I was the same on- as offstage.

For a brief moment I felt as if I might die; and just as quickly I knew everything would be all right.

You have misplaced joy, he said without hesitation. Without joy, we are as dead. —How do I find it again? —Find those who have it and bathe in their perfection.

It was an unexpected encounter that slowly altered the course of my life.