Quotes on “life”

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

The only certainty life contains is death.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

Everything you can imagine is real.

No matter how many people believe or don’t believe in you, you must bethe ultimate believer in yourself!

She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.