Quotes on Life

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

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; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.