Life Quotes
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"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,Love like you'll never be hurt,Sing like there's nobody listening,And live like it's heaven on earth."
"Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results."
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."
"Who are you to judge the life I live?I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers...make sure you hands are clean!"
"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."
"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
"Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears."After all this time?""Always,"said Snape."
"Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can."
"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."
"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
"If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there"
"This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid."
"We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving."
"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.Delicious Ambiguity."
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
"All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust."
"May you live every day of your life."
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been."
"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself."
"If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is."
"I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer."
"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony."
"Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read."
"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
"Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being."
"How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em."
"Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you."
"Some people have lives; some people have music."
"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."
"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
"Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid."
"A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it."
"The more I see, the less I know for sure."
"The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy."
"Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are.Compassionate toward yourself,you reconcile all beings in the world."
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
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