Quotes About Life

As victims, we aren't responsible for our lives. We blame someone else. However, this statement is true for me, and it's true for every one else: My life is my responsibility. The circumstances of my life don't determine the quality of my life; the quality of my life is determined by my reaction to circumstances.

When Diane's desire for life becomes greater than her desire for drugs, her recovery will begin, and not until then.

Meanwhile, Naomi moves on, living her own life while Diane does whatever she is destined to do with hers.

This surrendering of emotional control often gets alcoholics drunk. (Or at least serves as an excuse for drinking.) It also seriously detracts from the quality of life of non-alcoholics. And it is almost completely unnecessary.

Thus, my life is essentially an on-going communication exercise—a continuous test of my communication skills. This is true for all of us—particularly when it comes to interpersonal relationships.

What really drives us to seek help is an equally frightening sensation: that of being alive, yet not really living.

As Sandra now knows, her husband, Jim, received the heart of a young woman from New York. Her family said she was prone to depression throughout her life, was shy and soft-spoken, had worked part-time in a flower shop, and had taken her own life in despair over a lost love.

And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently.

In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.

Seeing the smile in your eyes, I have forgotten that people die

Moderately wise a man should be— don't wish for too much wisdom; a man's heart is seldom happy if he is truly wise. Moderately wise a man should be— don't wish for too much wisdom; if you can't see far into the future, you can live free from care.32

The power of impulses which haunt our phantasies, of imaginary modes of being which ignite the poetic word, and of the all-embracing, that most powerful something which menaces us so long as we feel unloved, in all these registers and perhaps in others as well, the dialectic of power and form takes place, which insures that language only captures the foam on the surface of life.

Time becomes human time to the extant that it is organized after the manner of a narrative.

la vida (lo natural) no quiere todo; la palabra "todo" no tiene sentido para la vida, sino para el espíritu: el espíritu es el que quiere el "todo", el que piensa el "todo" y el que sólo descansaría en el "todo".

The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on external satisfactions; and the moment he becomes frustrated in his search for these, he begins to develop neurotic symptoms, to feel that life is not worth living, and, in chronic cases, to take his own life.

Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's like a jar of jalapeños: You never know what's going to burn your ass.

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

You make a living out of what you get and make a life out of what you give...

Homo sapiens, which as far as I can tell is only another way of saying weaponised chimpanzees who are hellbent on tearing their cage apart without realising it's not a cage, it's their fucking life support they're shredding.

Love was like death that way.

Tracy had never been so conscious of the sky above the earth, the dangerous clouds that gathered there, the way humans lived beneath such grandeur and threat every moment of their lives.

The world is what it is.

The former East Germany hardly had a monopoly on complicity. Life's every moment caught one out in one form or another.

Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her.