Life Things Quotes

things you bone, end up boning you ~ Josh Stern

Love isn't simple, Katie, and neither is life. Things that are worth having are sometimes complicated, and they evoke complicated emotions. You know, one of the reasons people often turn to alcohol or drugs is that they can't deal with complications. ~ Catherine McKenzie

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting. ~ Robin Hobb

But, sometimes in life, things don't end how we want them to. Sometimes, what we want to happen and what has to happen are two very different things. ~ Rachel Van Dyken

This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times
or you will be useless. ~ Mitch Albom

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

That's life. Things don't always work out. ~ Jenny Han

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. ~ Guy De Maupassant

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die. ~ Jonathan Franzen

That's the problem with life. Things seldom stay the same do they? And the future rarely turns out quite the way we expect. ~ Cash Peters

If you're honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out. ~ Kate Spade

Recognize and appreciate little things, and enjoy what Life has to offer ~ Cesar Nikko Caharian III

Be grateful for the things and people you have in your life. Things you take for granted someone else is praying for ~ Marlan Rico Lee

But this wasn't a movie. In life, we didn't get to have credits roll to tell us when we'd come to the end of our epiphany arc. To know when to applaud. In life, there were no credits, no sound tracks. In life, things often didn't work out. ~ Kim Culbertson

In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything. ~ Hayley Mills

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you. ~ Robert Collier

As so often in life, things are not always what it seems. ~ Paulo Coelho

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

That's what the majority of people in the world do, they walk among the ruins of their life. Things that didn't work out, relationships that went sour, jobs that disappeared. All they can think about is their ruins, and when you focus on that you can't build a new you. ~ Richard Simmons

False. When things change, I will be happy. True. When I am happy, things will change. ~ Kyle Cease

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two. ~ Chuck Berry

I think that this is minor. Things will happen in your life - things will probably happen in your life - that will make this seem minor. Other things you'll be able to feel guilty about. ~ Alice Munro

In real life things don't go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks at our door is, more likely than not, a messenger bearing bad news. ~ Haruki Murakami

Sometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never ALLOW this world to knock you down! Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again! ~ Adam Johnson

The moment you venture out, something takes place in you and about you. Life comes to your aid in various ways. You may not like the form in which it comes to you - it may be misery, struggle, starvation - but when you invite life, things begin to happen. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life. ~ Phyllis Bottome

You get most things in life not by taking, but by giving. ~ Bryant H. McGill

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

Nature is no great mother who has home us. She is our own creation. It is in our brain that she quickens to life. Things are because we see them, and what we see and how we see it depends on the arts that have influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. ~ Oscar Wilde

An ultimately evil job. For we are attempting to conquer Sauron with the Ring. And we shall (it seems) succeed. But the penalty is, as you will know, to breed new Saurons, and slowly turn Men and Elves into Orcs. Not that in real life things are as clear cut as in a story, and we started out with a great many Orcs on our side. (letter 66) ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life ... Things can be good enough. ~ Patricia MacLachlan

In the great tornado of life, things sometimes seem out of control, and we can't see where we are going. But sometimes, when the storm passes and the dust settles, things have landed into place beautifully. ~ Charisse Montgomery

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things. ~ Linda Cardellini

The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life. ~ Martin Seligman

Just because something belongs to you doesn't mean you should keep it for the rest of your life. Things are meant to be transitory. ~ Susan Wright

I don't have a problem working 14 hours a day and still have ears and have a brain to mix afterwards. But I don't have the same strength to actively pursue and stay enthused about things like literature and movies and a social life - things that enhance the music, and the person. ~ Blake Mills

You go through things sometimes that make you aware of the really good things in life. ~ Cliff Floyd

Stop asking that," she said angrily. There was no stopping the tears now. "You always ask that. Why. Like there's an answer for everything. Not everybody has your life, you know, or your family. In your life, things happen for reasons. People make sense. But that's not my life. Nobody in my life makes sense ... ~ Rainbow Rowell

In life things get complicated, but it works out eventually
It always does ~ Essa Alam

Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life. ~ Russell Simmons

She watched his chest rise and fall and remembered and reflected. All her life things had been taken from her: Apollo, Thomas's affection, Mama and Papa, her home, her future. No one had ever asked her opinion, garnered her thoughts on what she wanted or needed. Things had been done to her, but she'd never had the chance to do things. Like a doll on a shelf, she'd been moved about, manipulated, flung aside. ~ Elizabeth Hoyt

Do you know what's one mistake we always make? Believing that life's immutable, that once you get on a particular track you have to follow it to the end of the line. But it appears that fate has more imagination than we do. Just when you think you're in a situation you can't escape from, when you've reached the lowest depths of total desperation, everything changes as fast as a gust of wind, everything's overturned; from one second to the next you find you're living a new life. ~ Susanna Tamaro

We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I belong to the generation of leaders for whom the achievement of democracy was the defining challenge. ~ Nelson Mandela

Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life. ~ Zac Posen

All that I wanted was to tempt into life things that wanted to come out of me. ~ Andrei Tarkovsky

I strive to live with passion and not to be desensitised to life. Things matter to me. You've got to live like that. Otherwise what's the point? It's not possible to please everyone and there is no point in trying to be what other people think you should be. For me, it's important to be who I am, not just to be different but to be as authentic as I can be. ~ Pep Guardiola

You speak what you believe, and you believe you're doomed. If there's one thing I've learned throughout the years, it's that what you believe is the impetus for your entire life. ~ Gena Showalter

Most girls are attracted to the simple things in life. Like men. ~ Henny Youngman

To me a translator is very, very important. If the fixer is also the translator, so much the better. I have known photographers who didn't speak the language and would work in a place for weeks without one, getting by on common sense and smiles. But how many situations did they miss because they couldn't talk to someone and get the back story on details, small daily life things, etc. ~ Peter Menzel

If you allow mosquitoes to disturb your sound sleep, you shall never be able to wake up healthy and sound enough to kill an Elephant ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When you are spending time in front of the television, you are not doing other things. The young child of three or four years old is in the stage of the greatest emotional development that human beings undergo. And we only develop when we experience things, real-life things: a conversation with Mother, touching Father, going places, doing things, relating to others. This kind of experience is critical to a young child, and when the child spends thirty-five hours per week in front of the TV set, it is impossible to have the full range of real-life experience that a young child must have. ~ Jerry Mander

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise. ~ Damon Galgut

The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don't. But, in the end, they're the people you always come home to. Sometimes it's the family you're born into and sometimes it's the one you make for yourself. ~ Candice Bergen

If you talk about corruption, you can talk about a lot of things in life. ~ Rafael Benitez

When you are relaxed about where you are at in life, things tend to flow more fluidly. It is as if you poke three holes in a bucket of water. The same amount of water is going to flow out the holes whether you let it flow or you shake the bucket. The difference is the amount of turmoil on the inside of the bucket! ~ Jennifer O'Neill

In life things often go wrong, and the future rarely happens the way you think it will. ~ Mark Peter Hughes

There are a lot of goals and ambitions that I have in life, things I want to accomplish. Who knows? I mean - it could be politics one day. I want to have a life that can help people. ~ Tim Tebow

I call my life a beautiful mess and organised chaos. It's just always been like that. My entire life things have been attracted to me and vice versa that turn into chaotic nightmares or I create the chaos myself. ~ Mindy McCready

Everybody does stupid things in life. Some of us more than others. You think you're going to get away with it. Or one or both of you just stop thinking. But it happens. And when it does, you can keep drinking it like poison, or you can put it behind you and go make the most of the rest of your life. ~ Claire Cook

To be happy is, I guess, the most important thing in life. ~ Mary, Crown Princess Of Denmark

If you don't conquer your fear, you are going to miss out on some great things in life. ~ Andy Stanley

Real-life things, like spiders and snakes, that doesn't scare me, but if it's a monster or a ghost or an alien, that will always scare me. ~ Claire Coffee

Now tell me the truth, Lapsus, why do you write about things you've never seen before in your life? Things you don't have the slightest idea about? Why is 'peignoir' a ball gown in your poem 'Canton'? Why? ~ Ilya Ilf

The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture. ~ Timothy J. Keller

There are things I want in life - things I need, things I mean to do,' Olivia went on. 'I just don't know what they are. ~ Cathy Gohlke

As I grow older, what I find interesting is that I get experience with pain, different types of pain, and I start to see the lovely hilarity of life. Things that were once so crushing take on a different essence. I move through it at a faster rate. It's like traveling: it opens my eyes. My process is to allow myself to have it and to not judge myself or the situation too much, and then to create something with it. ~ Rachael Yamagata

People who believed the world to be an undignified,
inglorious place, and who spent their evenings and nights
talking on and on about the mistakes others had made. They were
people whom solitude had made into the judges of the world,
whose verdicts were scattered to the four winds for whoever cared
to listen ~ Paulo Coelho

I think the question is, how do we live with change? Change in our friends, change in our lovers? Change in me and change in my body, from the stroke. Things have changed this plane of consciousness. We've tried to keep things the same. It causes suffering. This suffering is another step in your spiritual life, in your spiritual journey. ~ Ram Dass

You are my forever Chloe and today is just the beginning of great things to come for us. Without you in my life things would be empty. You honestly make me who I am. I'm a better man because of you ~ T.H. Snyder

When a woman comes into your life, things organize themselves. ~ Chetan Bhagat

It's long been my dream to have myself declared incompetent so I could just practice all day, and blog, and not have to take care of any normal life things. ~ Jeremy Denk

Naturally – she's an actress." He laughed wryly to himself. "Complications. Oh, yes." The doctor reflected and then said, "I always think a life without complications isn't really a life, you know. In life things go wrong, nothing stays the same and there's nothing you can do about it. Friends betray you, family is a nightmare, lovers are fickle. This is the norm, no?" He smiled to himself, as if remembering something pertinent. "What kind of a world would it be where nothing ever went wrong, where everything stayed the same, life followed a designated path – family was adorable, friends and lovers were faithful and true?" He paused. "You know, I don't think I'd like that kind of a world. We're made for complications, we human beings. Anyway, such a perfect world could never exist – at least not on this small planet. ~ William Boyd

There are many Universal Facts of Life: things that are so tried and tested as to be irrefutable. ~ Fennel Hudson

I think people have always loved things that are bigger than life, things that are imaginative. ~ Stan Lee

There are different kinds of birds and there are different situations and places to find these birds. Some of these birds choose to eat carcass and some prefer fresh meat. Some eat from backyards and some will take their food far from sight. There are those who soar higher and least live on short and common trees and there are those who wouldn't mind sleeping on any tree. There are those who exhibit their dexterity on the ground to the joy and admiration of all people, and there are those who make people raise their heads and strain their eyes before they see them. There are those whose appearance comes with awe, and there those who would pass without people taking a second look at them in admiration. There are those whose voices are a wake-up call and there are those whose sounds give reasons to ponder! There are those who sing sweet melodies and there are those whose sounds threaten. There are those who are for special meals and occasions, and there are those who are fit for the base of any pot at all. There are those who though are humble and friendly, yet when you go beyond your boundary, they will show how they are hungry! There are those who dive amazingly and there are those who just swim and move around in water! Life is just like that; different people, different values and different functions! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Knowledge is power, but how you use that power defines whether you're good, or evil. ~ Daniel Jackson

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad. ~ Robert Wagner

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse. ~ Robert McKee

The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life. ~ Fran Lebowitz

I get my inspiration from everyday life, things people my age are going through in life, good and bad experiences. ~ Manika

Legends are very pretty but rarely touch on the important facts of life. Things like whether a 1969 red Mustang powered by a 351 Windsor can outrun a seventy-foot reptilian predator. ~ Rhys Ford

If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life. ~ E.F. Schumacher

The schizophrenic... will suddenly burst out with the most incredible details of your life, things that you would never imagine anyone could know and he will tell you in the most abrupt way truths that you believed to be absolutely secret," Félix said in an interview with Caroline Laure and Vittorio Marchetti (Chaosophy). Schizophrenics aren't sunk into themselves. Associatively, they're hyperactive. The world gets cremy like a library. And schizophrenics are the most generous of scholars because they're emotionally right there, they don't just formulate, observe. They're willing to become the situated person's expectations. "The schizophrenic has lightning access to you," Félix continued. "He internalizes all the links between you, makes them part of his subjective system." This is empathy to the highest power: the schizophrenic turns into a seer, then enacts that vision through his or her becoming. But when doen empathy turn into dissolution? ~ Chris Kraus

The human race has come such a long way in such a short time and every day I wake I feel blessed that I am free of disease and horrendous working conditions. Long may it continue. ~ Terry Lander

There's always the question of what is good and evil and the gray area in between where that most people live. In everyday life, things aren't black or white, but rather there's a lot of coping and really tough decision making. ~ Laura San Giacomo

Love and life. Things that could be given or taken away in a heartbeat, all in the pursuit of power. ~ Kiersten White

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen. ~ Hugh Prather

Things that matter in this life can not be bought. Friends, truth, and a passion for life. ~ Chris Shays

I just think of interesting roles to play. I guess that I have matured, I guess growing up and becoming a man, your taste in characters changes and I think I have become more interested in active characters as I have become less contemplative in my personal life. Things have become a little bit more interesting in the doing these days and less interesting in the thinking about the doing. ~ Josh Hartnett

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. ~ Ambrose Bierce

I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once. ~ Kate Grenville

When these kinds of things happen in my life, things that are so clearly filled with more beauty or redemption or reconciliation than my cranky personality and stony heart could ever manufacture on their own, I just have no other explanation than this: God. Nadia Bolz-Weber ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

What I didn't realize at the time was that living through that bust was the luckiest thing that would ever happen to me. It taught me perhaps the single most important lesson about business and about life: Things go wrong more often than they go right. Failure is actually a natural - even crucial - element of a healthy economy. ~ Scott Fearon

We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others. ~ Ronald Reagan

The details of what we call our lives go sometimes to form patterns of meaning not unlike those to be found in our preferred sort of fiction. ~ Gerald Murnane

I do not have the heart to suggest that maybe life doesn't respect the boundaries of our tidy formulas, and that knowledge is not a fortress that keeps out pain. ~ Glennon Doyle Melton

One gram of moss from the forest floor, a piece about the size of a muffin, would harbour 150,000 protozoa, 132,000 tardigrades, 3,000 springtails, 800 rotifers, 500 nematodes, 400 mites, and 200 fly larvae. These numbers tell us something about the astounding quantity of life in a handful of moss. ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer

Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government ~ John Prescott

The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator. ~ Pope Paul VI

I've been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications - the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons. ~ Bill Watterson