Quotes About Life

Don't worry about getting older, worry about becoming dull.

If I can give you one bit of advice, it's never to make your own fries. Buy frozen. Life is too short to be peeling potatoes.

I want to look forwards. To new things. New places. New adventures. Otherwise I'm just living a life where a part of me is missing.

but having witnessed Cricket's heartbreak, there seems to be little comfort to be gained when someone you love dies. It's just a case of necessity. Of getting on with it. Of putting one foot in front of the other, and breathing in and out.

Nature teaches you to have patience and faith. Life's just a cycle, you know. Things might seem dead, but they always come back to life . . .

But you love that house.' 'I do, yes, but it holds so many memories of Monty.' 'Isn't that good?' I reason. 'In many ways, yes, it can be of great comfort . . .' She pauses, then gestures around her. 'But life isn't a museum, Nell. I don't want to live in the past.

The trade-off seems like a no-brainer. Would you rather be bribed during your hospital stay with made-to-order omelets or would you rather be, for example, not dead?

The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.

The correct word is like any small detail - it enhances life.

We choose how enthusiastically we live our time alive.

Our lives are made up of time, and the quality of our existence depends on our wise use of the moments we are given.

Life is too short for you to be the caretaker of the wrong details.

I want to fill my mind with life-enhancing, positive, beautiful memories. The dark experiences can remain buried without a funeral.

When a person quietly reconciles himself to all the contradictions that life offers, and can comfortably ride out or flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both, but getting stuck in neither, then he has achieved freedom.

One thing more, Leon. You say that life is meaningless, but I believe it's life that's sacred. I talk about art and sex because they're the most intense life experiences I know, so I feel they must be sacred too. They let us experience the values we've chosen for our lives in one exquisite not of pleasure exactly but of oneness with all of existence and with our own personal relationship to it. Art says: "This is Life." Sex says: "This is Living.

One thing more, Leon. You say that life is meaningless, but I believe it's life that's sacred. I talk about art and sex because they're the most intense life experiences I know, so I feel they must be sacred too. They let us experience the values we've chosen for our lives in one exquisite moment not of pleasure exactly but of oneness with all of existence and with our own personal relationship to it. Art says: "This is Life." Sex says: "This is Living.

They could come together again no other way because they had waited so long. Because they were all that mattered. Because he was life and she was its meaning.     The

It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

Din pasiunea gratuita a cunoasterii, din obsesia adevarului, cei pe care ii pretuim ca oameni inteligenti se descurca de obicei mai prost in viata decat prostii si ajung uneori sa-si neglijeze interesele si chiar sa lucreze impotriva lor, pastrand, totusi, cum spuneam la inceput, loc destul pentru prostia propriu-zisa. Deci inteligenta nu e in fond decat o prostie heteronoma.

There is a lesson that I learned at twelve - the world does not end at the edge of a quad. There are people outside. The world does not end on the Fourth Level. There are people elsewhere. It took me two years to learn to apply the lesson - that neither does the world end with the Ship. If you want to accept life, you have to accept the whole bloody universe. The universe is filled with people, and there is not a single solitary spear carrier among them.

The trouble is that each of us is his own hero, existing in a world of spear carriers.