Favorite Inspiring Quotes - Life
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson (The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967)
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus
“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”
― Maya Angelou
“Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
― Sara Henderson
“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”
― Charles Bukowski (The People Look Like Flowers at Last)
“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk (Diary)
“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style”
― Maya Angelou
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway
“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.”
― John Lennon
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket - The Slippery Slope)
“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”
― A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)
Will looked horrified: "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?”
― Cassandra Clare (Clockwork Angel)
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz
“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
― Oscar Wilde
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)
“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison (Song of Solomon)
“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
― Gayle Forman (If I Stay)
