Quotes on “life”

Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?