Browsing Quotes With Tag: life (97)
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The ways we miss our lives are life.
Speaker: Randall JarrellSource: A Girl in a LibraryPosted: 11 Nov 2014 at 9:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Let your life be like a snowflake,
which leaves a mark, but not a stain.Speaker: Hellen Seller, 1893Posted: 15 Sep 2014 at 1:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Life is hard enough when you’re operating at 6-2 and even.
Speaker: Nick OffermanSource: Paddle Your Own CanoePosted: 19 Jan 2014 at 11:51 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In the end we will only just remember how it feels.
Speaker: Rob ThomasSource: "Little Wonders", song lyrics, "Meet the Robinsons" soundtrackPosted: 13 Oct 2010 at 3:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I leaned one elbow on the table and considered the clock. Watching the hands of a clock advance is a meaningless way to spend time, but I couldn’t think of anything better to do. Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?
Speaker: Haruki MurakamiSource: Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the WorldPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Life asks of you what it thinks you can handle.
Posted: 17 Aug 2010 at 11:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I have found that the ends may indeed justify the means, but our experience, what we live, is the means. My family is the means. My life is the means. The end is just death.
Speaker: Rolf GatesSource: Death and BirthPosted: 26 Dec 2009 at 10:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Let’s face it: Sadness and evil are always more believable than happiness and love. When a movie reviewer calls a film “realistic,” everyone knows what that means – it means the movie has an unhappy ending.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Fargo Rock CityPosted: 08 Nov 2009 at 8:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It was all (of course) too predictable to believe. Which is how life always is: Pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn’t seem to care.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Downtown OwlPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don’t need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
Speaker: Nick HornbySource: How to Be GoodPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew.
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As I look back at the best years of my life, I find myself wondering if maybe I wasn’t unconsciously conditioned to exist somewhere in the middle of two better stories, caught between the invention of the recent past and the valor of the coming future.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 19 Sep 2009 at 5:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.
Speaker: Albert SchweitzerPosted: 25 Aug 2009 at 2:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
Speaker: Annie LamottSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice. We can sit all night with our friend while he talks about the end of his marriage, and what we finally get is a collection of stories about passion, tenderness, misunderstanding, sorrow, money; those hours and days and moments when he was absolutely married, whether he and his wife were screaming at each other, or sulking around the house, or making love. While his marriage was dying, he was also working; spending evenings with friends, rearing children; but those are other stories. Which is why, days after hearing a painful story by a friend, we see him and say: How are you? We know that by now he may have another story to tell, or he may be in the middle of one, and we hope it is joyful.
Speaker: Andre DubusSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We begin each day where we left off the previous day. The principle is immutable. We cannot begin a journey from where we are not or from where we wish we were. ALL JOURNEYS MUST BEGIN FROM WHERE WE ARE; all that we learn is based upon what we already know; all that we can do will be the result of what we have previously done.
Source: Revelations of the Restoration, p. 1049-50Posted: 13 Aug 2009 at 9:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Some mornings it just doesn’t seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
Speaker: Emo PhillipsSource: http://www.quotationspage.comPosted: 08 Aug 2009 at 6:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
So many quests, all these different worlds… Can we all be so similar yet live in such disparate worlds? Is it possible that we are all sharing the same frenetic agitation, even though we have not sprung from the same earth or the same blood and do not share the same ambition?
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 27 Jun 2009 at 1:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Herein lies the key to a good life—not rules to follow, nor problems to avoid— but an engaged humility, an earnest acceptance of life’s pains and promises.”
Speaker: Joshua ShenkSource: Happiness: 3 amazing tips from the world's oldest case study, by Yeah Dave (David Romanelli)Posted: 27 Jun 2009 at 8:56 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you dread tomorrow, it’s because you don’t know how to build the present, and when you don’t know how to build the present, you can tell yourself you can deal with it tomorrow, and it’s a lost cause anyway because tomorrow always ends up becoming today, don’t you see?
So we mustn’t forget any of this, absolutely not. We have to live with the certainty that we’ll get old and that it won’t look nice or to be good or feel happy. And tell ourselves that it’s now that matters: to build something, now, at any price, using all our strength. Always remember that there’s a retirement home waiting somewhere and so we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every step is a little bit of eternity.
That’s what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 25 Jun 2009 at 7:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!