Quotes on “life”

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

Through all of living have much joy and laughter, life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

But I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?

...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.

Bring something incomprehensible into the world!