Quotes on Life

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you. Not the way you want to live. The way I want to live with you. Without you I wouldn't care. I'd eat tinned spaghetti and put on yesterday's clothes. But as it is I change my socks, and make money, and tart up Brodie's unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel so he can be an author too, like me.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in my memories—would anyone, anyone, love me?

As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.

we’re allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities.

No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up & show up

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.