Quotes on “life”

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

If you would create something,you must be something.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.

There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.

If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder

What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams.

Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.

Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.