Quotes on “life”

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby.

If people make fun of you, that probably means you're doing something right.

Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

You will be fine,' the fortune teller says. 'There may be decisions to make and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....

But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.

I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.