Quotes on Life

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.

You can walk away and say "We don't need this." but something in your eyes says "We can beat this.

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you all through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed, Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the same head?- And, when I feed myself, feeding you too?

There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?

Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered-- that is when we feel the greatest pain. I can tell you, though, from experience, you grow accustomed to it. You learn to live your new life, and you can't imagine, or even really remember, how things were before.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

It is not the life that matters, but the journey.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now.

Tears are words that need to be written.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.