Quotes on “life”

I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.I don't want it to win.

... you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?

But what is life if you don't live it?

Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.

It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.

A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life

So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry

Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.

Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don't try.

You can play it safe, and I wouldn't blame you for it. You can continue as you've been doing, and you'll survive, but is that what you want? Is that enough?