Quotes on “life”

Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

there isn't enough of anythingas long as we live. But at intervalsa sweetness appears and, given a chanceprevails.

But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

When we're connected to others, we become better people.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.