Quotes on “life”

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.

You’ll be fine. You’re 25. Feeling [unsure] and lost is part of your path. Don’t avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it. Take a breath. You’ll be okay. Even if you don’t feel okay all the time.

Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

Was it hard? I ask.Letting go? Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.

You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.

The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.