Vida Quotes

We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events. ~ Diane Setterfield

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. ~ Vida Dutton Scudder

In every heart a waterfall of love is primed to shower the world. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

When 'Gas Food Lodging' was released, I had already shot 'Mi Vida Loca.' ~ Allison Anders

Salsa is a way of life. Tener salsa en la vida is to fully enjoy life, by treasuring family, relationships, work, and community. ~ Juana Bordas

First dates are great ways to see how someone acts when putting his best foot forward. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born ... Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. - Vida Winter ~ Diane Setterfield

She looks up at me with those vulnerable eyes. "What if it means something?" She asks.
"What if it does?"
"Promise me it won't mean anything."
I lean my head back on the couch. "It won't mean anythin'." Aren't I supposed to be the guy in this scenario, laying down the no-commitment rules?
"And no tongue," she adds.
"Mi vida, if I kiss you, I guarantee there's gonna be tongue. ~ Simone Elkeles

You laugh as you sing about dying, you drug yourself up, but you can still see clearly, and you die as you break into a fit of laughter, because asi es la vida in this soup of islands stewed in hunger and the desire to be someone else. ~ Mayra Santos-Febres

But now it is Norris's privilege and pleasure to see her as no one else does, for he has been struck by love for Vida. And in his eyes, under the transforming inspection of his gaze―well, who can tell? Vida may become something more than she appears at the very moment, waiting quietly on her bench, the world breathing delicately around her. ~ Carrie Brown

Spiritual dating is the emotionally healthy way of dating as a conscious, empowered woman. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

The tears I gratified him with were fake ones. Ones that set off my green eyes the way diamonds set off emeralds. And it worked. If you dazzled a man with green eyes, he will be so hypnotized that he won't notice there is someone inside the eyes spying on him. – Vida Winters Page 268 ~ Diane Setterfield

As Vida always said, there are times you have to listen to your gut and tell common courtesy to fuck right off. ~ Alexandra Bracken

People pretend things didn't happen. Or so what, they happened, it's okay. Well, it's never okay. It's always ruined. ~ Vendela Vida

Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably well, with grace, humor, and fierce grit. Mock doesn't only redefine what realness means to her, but challenges us to rethink our own perceptions of gender and sexuality, feminism and sisterhood, making this book a transcendent piece of American literature. ~ Raquel Cepeda

Be strong and solid in your uniqueness. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Also, screw you - maybe you can be all stealthy and break into their building to get the woman out, but I can get
us there and back safely. I did this for months and never got a second glance from anyone, including PSFs."
"Probably because your ugly-ass face blinded them on the first look," she muttered. ~ Alexandra Bracken

Delight and cheer in life, and let it uplift and inspire you. Spread happiness. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Tell me something from Spanish literature," Schiele said.
"I'll give you a line from my favorite novel. 'Los seres humanos no nacen para siempre el dia en que sus madres los alumbran, sino que la vida los obliga a parirse a si mismos una y otra vez.'"
("Humans are not born forever on the day their mothers have them; life necessitates giving birth to themselves over and over again.") ~ Gabrielle Zevin

Nonconformity in dating is all about being authentic and true to yourself. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

At the Konya bus station, ~ Vendela Vida

The suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace. ~ Vida Dutton Scudder

Hands you his business card and requests that you tell your ~ Vendela Vida

Ignorance has produced less errors than science. P. 105 ~ Mathias Aires

Love sparkles within the shimmering jewel that is your heart. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Vive La Vida LOCA (Live the crazy life) ~ Luis J Rodriguez

The most popular single in the world was "Livin' la Vida Loca," a song about how Pro Tools made Puerto Ricans gay. ~ Chuck Klosterman

I accept the blissful gifts of beautiful flowers and plants. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

The secret to consciously dating is letting your heart be your guide. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

You are a gift to life. Share your bounty. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations. ~ Vida Blue

Spiritual dating is your ticket to a happy, fulfilling love life. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Gratitude opens you heart to receive more goodness. Then you give thanks and are blessed again. It's an endless cycle. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something that happened an eternity ago, at the beginning of time. We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events. - Vida Winter ~ Diane Setterfield

I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it? ~ Vida Blue

I am. I exist. I embrace my inner quiet and let it replenish me. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd be up for hearing about the one-eyed chick. ~ Alexandra Bracken

Emotions of every color create the rich work of art that is life. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

I guess after a certain age, things change and those things or people or friendships that happen in movies, just don't happen in real life. ~ Alberto Fuguet

Extraordinary effervescence exists within you, waiting to be tapped. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

I love and commit to nourishing my inner child. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

And for the love of God, bitch, don't get stabbed this time! ~ Alexandra Bracken

Hay algo más tonto en la vida
Que llamarse Pablo Neruda?

(is there anything more insane in this life
than being called Pablo Neruda?) ~ Pablo Neruda

Recently, everything around me felt familiar yet amiss, like the first time you ride in the back seat of your own car. ~ Vendela Vida

Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change. ~ Vida Dutton Scudder

Spiritual dating requires you both to have the ability to stay present in the moment and expand together. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Just shut up and start sucking each other's faces already," Vida grumbled, leaning awkwardly against the stump. She would never admit it aloud, but I knew the burns on her back her eating her alive with pain. "I'm trying to make up for the sleep I lost when you started screeching at each other like cats in heat."
"Miss Vida," Liam said, "has anyone ever told you that you are positively the whipped cream on the sundae of life?"
She glared at him. "Anyone ever told you your head is shaped like a pencil?"
"That is physically impossible," Chubs groused. "He'd be--"
"Actually," Liam began, "Cole once did try to-- What?"
"Oh, I'm sorry," Chub said, "apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue."
"I'm going to guess you probably don't want to hear about the time he pushed my head through the neighbours fence..."
"Was there a lot of blood?" Vida asked, suddenly interested. "Did you lose an ear?"
Liam held his hands up next to his ears, indicating both were firmly attached to his skull.
"Then, no" she said. "No one wants to hear your boring-ass story. ~ Alexandra Bracken

I don't usually try to rely on songs to woo a girl, but I think Coldplay can get a girl in the mood ... or make her cry, one or the other. I used to play in cover bands; we sure did our fair share of Coldplay. I like 'Viva La Vida.' ~ Mark Salling

I receive the blessing of past dates, the lessons and the joy, and let the rest go now for all time. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

My heart pulses with love. I am open to its healing and joyful effects. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy" ~ Sigmund Freud

Loving yourself is the single most important thing you can do to create the life of your dreams. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

I am worth the effort of creating a blissful life. I choose to care for myself like a treasured lover. I love myself. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

If life is a movie most people would consider themselves the star of their own feature. Guys might imagine they're living some action adventure epic. Chicks maybe are in a rose-colored fantasy romance. And homosexuals are living la vida loca in a fabulous musical. Still others may take the indie approach and think of themselves as an anti-hero in a coming of age flick. Or a retro badass in an exploitation B movie. Or the cable man in a very steamy adult picture. Some people's lives are experimental student art films that don't make any sense. Some are screwball comedies. Others resemble a documentary, all serious and educational. A few lives achieve blockbuster status and are hailed as a tribute to the human spirit. Some gain a small following and enjoy cult status. And some never got off the ground due to insufficient funding. I don't know what my life is but I do know that I'm constantly squabbling with the director over creative control, throwing prima donna tantrums and pouting in my personal trailor when things don't go my way.

Much of our lives is spent on marketing. Make-up, exercise, dieting, clothes, hair, money, charm, attitude, the strut, the pose, the Blue Steel look. We're like walking billboards advertising ourselves. A sneak peek of upcoming attractions. Meanwhile our actual production is in disarray--we're over budget, doing poorly at private test screenings and focus groups, creatively stagnant, morale low. So we're endlessly tinkering, touching u ~ Tatsuya Ishida

Spiritual dating is about listening to your instincts and not rushing into anything. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

I allow my inner joy wellspring to be unbounded and free, to power me up, and to keep me radiantly healthy! ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

When dating, emotionally reveal yourself in increments that are congruent with your comfort level. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Christopher . . . are these from you?" she asked at lunch, careful to make her tone light as she placed the two picture-poems on the table. Christopher's eyes fell to them, and he smiled.
"Yes."
He didn't ask if she liked them, and he didn't seem embarrassed.
Sarah was flustered, and somewhat surprised by Christopher's easy confidence. Even so, her natural suspicion surfaced. "Why?"
"Because," he answered seriously, "you make a good subject. Your hair, for one, is like a shimmering waterfall. It's so fair that it catches the light. It makes you seem like you have a halo about you. And your eyes - they're such a pure color, not washed out at all, deep as the ocean. And your expression . . . intense and yet somehow detached, as if you see more of the world than the rest of us."
Flustered, she could think of no way to respond. Did he just say this stuff from the top of his head? Only her strict Vida control kept her from blushing.
Meanwhile Nissa entered the cafeteria. She started to sit, then glanced from the pictures, to Christopher, to Sarah. "Should I go somewhere else?"
Christopher nodded to a chair, answering easily, "Sit down. We aren't exchanging dark secrets - yet."
Nissa flashed a teasing look to her brother as she took a seat. "As his sister, I feel the need to inform you, Sarah, that Christopher has been talking about you incessantly."
Christopher smiled, unembarrassed. "I suppose I might have been.'
"Especially your ~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

The highest mountains are those who admire themselves, just because they cost to climb; The ease is boring at all. P. 91 ~ Mathias Aires

Writing about myself (in MI VIDA), has given me a feeling that I had never had before- that the past is like a story, in which one thing led to another, and that life is not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that can be somewhat comprehended. Thinking about writing? You just have to start with one story... ~ Jose N Harris

And on some nights in bed, in that moment before sleep erased the day, I would picture the way the sky in Lapland looked the morning I left, how the train had sped south beneath a sky that was brighter than it had been in weeks. It had pulsed with reds and oranges, as though hiding a beating heart. ~ Vendela Vida

Having fun is good for your health! ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

The end. But I'm telling you now, if either of you breathe a word -one goddamn word- about Cate, I will come down on you so hard, they'll be naming hurricanes after me for a fucking century. ~ Alexandra Bracken

La vida es un libro en blanco y negro y nosotros salimos a llenar unas hojas"

Life is a book in white and black and we have to go out and to fill the pages ~ Herman Zapp

As architect of your reality, you have the power to create it as you choose. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

That was the same week my physics teacher taught my class the concept of infinity. I cried about it every night for months. ~ Vendela Vida

Manuela de La Mancha," says a deep voice. It sounds strange to hear such a long name, but that's the manada I'm pretending to be from.

"Hola, Marilén," I say to Tiago and Saysa's great-grandmother, whom I met moments ago.

"No sos bruja." You're not a witch.

My tongue feels like sandpaper, and my mouth seals dry. Since our wolf-shadows roam outside the Citadel, and my fangs and claws are retracted, I didn't think there would be any indicator of my identity -

"No te preocupes, no vengo a interrogarte." Don't worry, I'm not here to interrogate you.

She moves closer, and the way her steely eyes seem to see more than others reminds me of Perla. "Toda la vida soñé con conocerte," she whispers. My whole life I've dreamt of meeting you.

Her long black hair is in a tight, elegant bun that pulls her skin, stretching it so that if there's a single wrinkle, I don't see it. "La primera de nosotras que nació fuera de su jaula."

The first of us to be born outside her cage. ~ Romina Garber

I have a secret. My inner smile is shining. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field. ~ Vida Blue

Within us all is a radiant inner child bathed in joy. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Open your creative heart like an unfurling flower and petal and share your exquisiteness. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

I know I'm going to shred the skin off your face and turn it into hair ribbons. ~ Alexandra Bracken

To know what you want, you need to know yourself. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

When it comes to books ... They're like lifelong friends to me; I need to know they're there, even if I don't check in with them on a regular basis. ~ Vendela Vida

Even the air between them seemed to be dented, waiting to be straightened again. ~ Vendela Vida

I let my inner smile enliven my being and enhance my health. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Emotions buzz through our beings like busy bees, giving us the gift of living vividly. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

I vibrate with cheer and delight in my cells. I let beauty heal me! ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

I am made of beauty. I notice beauty all around me every day. I am beautifully blessed! ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Remember, you are powerful and you can always reclaim your space. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Inner quiet can be cultivated. Meditation is a healing balm to a frazzled brain existing in a hectic world. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good. ~ Vida Blue

They call you Medusa. One wrong look and your brain turns to stone. ~ Alexandra Bracken

My roots are firmly planted in the glory of nature. The soil beneath my feet heartens each step. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which makes their lives one unceasing round of toil, deprivation and anxiety. ~ Vida Goldstein

You are perfect. Treat yourself like the being of beauty you truly are. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Is this how you got around before?" Vida wondered aloud. "It is a miracle you dumbasses survived. ~ Alexandra Bracken

Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. ~ Vida Blue

A mannequin? An unfeeling heartless bitch who feeds on others' misery and is physically incapable of crying, unless it's tears of blood? ~ Alexandra Bracken

Vida Winter's appearance was not calculated for concealment. She was an ancient queen, sorceress or goddess. Her stiff figure rose regally out of a profusion of fat purple and red cushions. Draped around her shoulders, the folds of the turquoise-and-green cloth that had cloaked her body did not soften the rigidity of her frame. Her bright copper hair had been arranged into an elaborate confection of twists, curls and coils. Her face, as intricately lined as a map, was powdered white and finished with bold scarlet lipstick. In her lap, her hands were a cluster of rubies, emeralds and white, bony knuckles; only her nails, unvarnished, cut short and square like my own, struck an incongruous tone. ~ Diane Setterfield

I let go of fear and immerse myself in the endless wash of love. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Choosing your flirtations consciously shows emotional maturity. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Are you driving this slow because you have no idea where we're going, or because you're hoping we jump out of the car & put ourselves out of our misery? ~ Alexandra Bracken

Then he was stepping back, away, letting distance flood between us again. His voice was low, rough. "Give 'em hell, darlin'."
"And for the love of God, bitch, don't get stabbed this time!" Vida added. ~ Alexandra Bracken

Amé, fuí amado, el sol acarició mi faz.
¡Vida, nada me debes! ¡Vida, estamos en paz!
I loved, I was loved, the sun stroked my face.
Life, you owe me nothing! Life, we are at peace! ~ Amado Nervo

As you open to love, you can begin the process of defining your intentions for your dating life. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

I am awesome! I accept my amazing, awesome self exactly as I am in this moment. I love myself. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Delight yourself with imagination and artistry and be inspired by life's beauty. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

viva la vida loca(live the crazy life) ~ Luiz J. Rodriguez

I choose my reality. My vision and actions create my life. I am an amazing reality creator. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree