Important Life Quotes

The vast majority of you are going to close this tab without, even for a single moment, entertaining the thought of writing something.

Step outside your comfort zone and try something new. Learning the fine rationalist art of CoZE (comfort zone expansion) is a really important life skill, and putting your writing online is a low-risk way to do that. Don't try to cop out with "I don't have any stories." Baloney. Everyone has stories; write up a memory that's important to you. And don't even try to tell me, "Oh, but I don't know how to write!" Neither did I when I started; I learned by doing. So please, set the excuses aside, put something up on the web, and share it with the rest of us. When you do, drop me a PM; I'll leave you your first review, but you have to publish something first.

Well? What are you waiting for? Seriously. Go write one sentence of a new story, write now. ~ David K. Storrs

Kids make their mark in life by doing what they can do, not what they can't ... School is important, but life is more important. Being happy is using your skills productively, no matter what they are. ~ Howard Gardner

Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere. ~ Regina Brett

Even after four thousand years, I could still learn important life lessons. For instance: never go shopping with a satyr.
Finding the store took forever, because Grover kept getting sidetracked. He stopped to chat with a yucca. He gave directions to a family of ground squirrels. He smelled smoke and led us on a chase across the desert until he found a burning cigarette someone had dropped onto the road.
"This is how fires start," he said, then responsibly disposed of the cigarette butt by eating it.
I didn't see anything within a mile radius that could have caught fire. I was reasonably sure rocks and soil were not flammable, but I never argue with people who eat cigarettes. ~ Rick Riordan

The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person. ~ Shimon Peres

Understanding plays an important role in everyday life, just like water. Let everyone drink it, for it is the antidote against antagonism in every relationship. ~ Elijah Onyemmeri

Seeing pictures of other places around the world makes me feel more important. Reminds me, even though life is short, there's so much to do. ~ Travis J. Dahnke

Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger. ~ Regina Brett

The most important time in life is the present. ~ Aitzaz Ahsan

Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be quite so important. ~ Mike Gayle

And at the end of the night, they realized how important those little stars were, which they ignored while adoring the beauty of the moon whole night. ~ Akshay Vasu

We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important. ~ Nora Roberts

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important. ~ Catherine Deneuve

Some people argue that teaching children financial basics is the parents' job. However, this well-meant sentiment is what we're relying on now, and for all too many, it isn't working. In some families, financial illiteracy is passed on from generation to generation. Education takes place in the home, on the streets, and in the schools. Therefore, schools must bear some responsibility for teaching this skill. However, if you're raising children, remember that no one cares as much as you do or has as much ability to teach the important life skill of personal money management. ~ Eric Tyson

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them. ~ Stephen Covey

All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important thing is that people should realize that, for when they do, they will most certainly create another and better life for themselves. I will not live to see it, but I know that it will be quite different, quite unlike our present life. And so long as this different life does not exist, I shall go on saying to people again and again: 'Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!' ~ Anton Chekhov

I really just want to do the best at everything I do. I just want to have all the great people around me that I feel is family, as well as my friends, and I have an amazing girlfriend. I think having love in your life is most important. ~ Evan Ross

If you feel the need to do it - to write, or paint, or take photos or anything - then that's what you have to do. That's the one most important thing you can do. Because if you don't, then there isn't any point to anything, right? You've got to do it. You've got to keep writing. ~ Kacen Callender

Your story is important. ~ Lisa Nichols

I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary
you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous. ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

Effective altruism is an advance in ethical behavior as well as in the practical application of our ability to reason. I have described it as an emerging movement, and that term suggests that it will continue to develop and spread. If it does, then once there is a critical mass of effective altruists, it will no longer seem odd for anyone to regard bringing about "the most good I can do" as an important life goal. If effective altruism does become mainstream, I would expect it to spread more rapidly, for then it will be apparent that it is easy to do a great deal of good and feel better about your life as a result. ~ Peter Singer

I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important. ~ Frank Serpico

The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important. ~ Jeanne Moreau

Your children get only one childhood. ~ Regina Brett

The single most important thing in my life is God. The second most important thing in my life is my family and the third thing is the great profession that I chose. I chose to do something that I love. I never had to work a day in my life. ~ Sam Rutigliano

Sometimes it is important to sit back and think about your life. Then you realize how awesome you are. ~ Rohan Kulkarni

The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account. ~ Chris Gardner

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain. ~ Edmund Hillary

Children make your life important. ~ Erma Bombeck

Making someone else important is your biggest ability. ~ Meir Ezra

Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself. ~ Maxwell Maltz

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important. ~ Robert Breault

You see, people in the depressive position are often stigmatised as 'failures' or 'losers'. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. If these people are in the depressive position, it is most probably because they have tried too hard or taken on too much, so hard and so much that they have made themselves 'ill with depression'. In other words, if these people are in the depressive position, it is because their world was simply not good enough for them. They wanted more, they wanted better, and they wanted different, not just for themselves, but for all those around them. So if they are failures or losers, this is only because they set the bar far too high. They could have swept everything under the carpet and pretended, as many people do, that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds. But unlike many people, they had the honesty and the strength to admit that something was amiss, that something was not quite right. So rather than being failures or losers, they are just the opposite: they are ambitious, they are truthful, and they are courageous. And that is precisely why they got 'ill'. To make them believe that they are suffering from some chemical imbalance in the brain and that their recovery depends solely or even mostly on popping pills is to do them a great disfavour: it is to deny them the precious opportunity not only to identify and address important life problems, but also to develop a deeper and more refined appreciation of themselves and of th ~ Neel Burton

However good or bad a situation is, it will change. ~ Regina Brett

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

You can't write your life story and leave out one of the most important things that happened to you in your life. I think that that would be dishonest, and it would be something people would be very angry about. ~ Kris Jenner

To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting. ~ Peter Stormare

'Marley' does what is probably the best possible job of documenting an important life. ~ Roger Ebert

Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know. ~ Yoko Ono

I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important. ~ Natalie Portman

Acting's fun, but life's more important. ~ Margot Kidder

The sudden surge of hormones at teenage age will continue to play an important part in the life of young people ~ Oche Otorkpa

Like a lot of my creative decisions (and important life decisions, come to think of it), I don't have any sort of rational account of my reasoning. It just felt right and I went with it. ~ Joseph Fink

Everything is as important as everything else. ~ John Lennon

This shift in culture has changed us. In the first place, it has made us a bit more materialistic. College students now say they put more value on money and career success. Every year, researchers from UCLA survey a nationwide sample of college freshmen to gauge their values and what they want out of life. In 1966, 80 percent of freshmen said that they were strongly motivated to develop a meaningful philosophy of life. Today, less than half of them say that. In 1966, 42 percent said that becoming rich was an important life goal. By 1990, 74 percent agreed with that statement. Financial security, once seen as a middling value, is now tied as students' top goal. In 1966, in other words, students felt it was important to at least present themselves as philosophical and meaning-driven people. By 1990, they no longer felt the need to present themselves that way. They felt it perfectly acceptable to say they were primarily interested in money.20 We live in a more individualistic society. If ~ David Brooks

It was an exciting community, where we lived in Washington. The basic feeling - and I don't think this is just nostalgia - was one of excitement, of achievement, of happiness. Life was important, life was significant. ~ Studs Terkel

Distractions can be disastrous if they are allowed, they will steal precious time and energy from most important things that matters in life. ~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important. ~ Ed Bradley

I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be space and that it represents an important life insurance for our future survival, as it could prevent the disappearance of humanity by colonizing other planets, ~ Stephen Hawking

When you cook, you take a life. When you eat fish, or meat, you take a life. And you must be very respectful of the ingredients and that is very important. ~ Joel Robuchon

I always wanted to know what I'd face next, even though that was maybe a bit detrimental to spontaneity. Structuring my life and avoiding chaos was more important. ~ Angela Merkel

I enjoy life, and I think that's important. Life is so fragile and so fleeting, and it's over in a minute, and you've just got to grab it and do everything and not worry about it. ~ Jerry Hall

I will do whatever I have to do to reach people with the things I believe are important. Life is too short not to do everything you can. ~ Jeanette Winterson

In life, there are many hills and valleys to pass and you cannot avoid them! The most important thing you need is to know this: You must pass them! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The book came after the fall of the Taliban, it says something about Afghan family life. Those kind of stories - what happens behind the scenes on a TV screen - are important. ~ Asne Seierstad

As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important. ~ Benjamin Bratt

It is very difficult to make really big,
important, life-changing decisions because we are all susceptible
to a formidable array of decision biases. There are more of them
than we realize, and they come to visit us more often than we
like to admit. ~ Dan Ariely

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder. ~ Rose Macaulay

My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he has developed this philosophy, he does not put paint on canvas, he puts himself on canvas. ~ Jacob Lawrence

The values of life are most important. ~ Leonardo Del Vecchio

Width of life is more important than length of life. ~ Avicenna

Years don't begin and end because everybody gets together at the same time and says they do. Years really start when important things happen to you. When you're born. When you find the human you're going to live with forever. Your life begins when it becomes important. ~ Gwen Cooper

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. ~ Mark Twain

I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. While the little things-for instance, the way people hang on to what is over-seem so important. ~ Peter Hoeg

Education does loads of things for girls that won't surprise you at all - it provides self-esteem, teaches important life skills, and offers the kinds of choices a good education can give anyone. ~ Richard E. Robbins

Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't. ~ Shannon Hale

It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it's not something I find terribly important. ~ Neil Gaiman

We stay the same as we've always been, keeping to the path we've walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only one to walk – that anyone not walking it with us is being misled. ~ A.J. Darkholme

What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise. ~ Mira Nair

Life is too precious to spend it with important people. ~ Harry Partch

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important. ~ America Ferrera

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young. ~ Regina Brett

Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own historical struggle. ~ Linda Hogan

It is not important what you see, but it is important the way you see it. ~ Debasish Mridha

When we appreciate how much we have, we feel the urge to pare down, get back to basics, and learn what is essential for our happiness. We long to realize what's really important. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

I think one of the most important things we can do as feminists is acknowledge that, even though we have womanhood in common, we have to start to think about the ways in which we're different, how those differences affect us, and what kinds of needs we have based on our differences. ~ Roxane Gay

We know that our life is essentially tragic. I'm absolutely not for handing over that very important department of our psyche to those who say, "Why didn't you say so before? God has a plan for you in mind." ~ Christopher Hitchens

And that's where I'm finally at today - my life is about being with my family. This is what's important. ~ Aron Ralston

When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer. ~ Regina Brett

Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important. ~ Candace Bushnell

I don't want to fail, of course. But even though I didn't know how bad things really were, I still had a lot to think about before I said yes. I had to consider the implications for Pixar, for my family, for my reputation. I decided that I didn't really care, because this is what I want to do. If I try my best and fail, well, I've tried my best. ~ Steve Jobs

The Bible views us as recipients of God's perfect love, already charged with an important life mission (seeking first the kingdom of God), and thus the decision to marry, though crucial, won't define us. Nor will who we marry define us. ~ Gary L. Thomas

The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important. ~ A.J. Darkholme

Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important. ~ Bob Feller

The most important thing you do in your life is to die. ~ Timothy Leary

I had also developed my own culture. Work.
Over the years, I had taken labor as my companion and had moved everything else to the side. ~ Mitch Albom

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important. ~ Bernardo Bertolucci

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important. ~ George Weinberg

Each day I'd wake up to a stream of strangers' most important life questions and concerns. It was like knowing the plots to countless movies but never being able to see the ending. ~ Greg Dybec

The Dweller Under the Sink had still not come out to eat but was probably living a secret and important life by himself. ~ Tove Jansson

A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do. ~ Dallas Willard

Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is. ~ John Eldredge

If two people with no symptoms in common can both receive the same diagnosis of schizophrenia, then what is the value of that label in describing their symptoms, deciding their treatment, or predicting their outcome, and would it not be more useful simply to describe their problems as they actually are? And if schizophrenia does not exist in nature, then how can researchers possibly find its cause or correlates? If psychiatric research has made so little progress in recent decades, it is in large part because everyone has been barking up the wrong tree. It is not a question of getting a bigger and better scanner, but of going right back to the drawing board.

What's more, medical-type labels can be as harmful as they are hollow. By reducing rich, varied, and complex human experiences to nothing more than a mental disorder, they not only sideline and trivialize those experiences but also imply an underlying defect that then serves as a pseudo-explanation for the person's disturbed behaviour. This demeans and disempowers the person, who is deterred from identifying and addressing the important life problems that underlie his distress. ~ Neel Burton

I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important. ~ Tanya Fischer

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important. ~ Willie Nelson

In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role. ~ Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important. ~ Tom Ford

Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through. ~ A.J. Darkholme

The date is not important. The age is not important. Time is not important. Life is very fleeting. It's important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what we've done in this life has been good. It was simple; it was modest. Everyone creates their own story and moves on. That's it. I don't feel particularly important. What we create is not important. We're very insignificant. ~ Oscar Niemeyer