Quotes about Life

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?

Realize that life is not a checklist of acquisitions.

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your ol

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say, 'This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better.'

Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.

Sometimes you have to go through a dark tunnel to see the light.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.

People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

I don't stop when I'm tired. I stop when I'm done.

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

The past can not be cured.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

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

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness.

You get paid for the value you bring to the hour, not the time you put in.

We all have a voice inside our heads that criticizes us, doubts us, tells us we're not good enough. It's how we deal with that voice that determines our destinies.

I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn’t want to trade places.

Live in the present moment. The past is gone and the future is uncertain.

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness."

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.

To be alive is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water, but to walk on the Earth.

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

I can no other answer make but thanks, And thanks, and ever thanks. - Expressing gratitude in simple words.

I have to live if I want to be remembered.

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't give up.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. - Emphasizing the value of knowledge.

A joke is a very serious thing.

Being faithful in the smallest things is the way to gain, maintain, and demonstrate the strength needed to accomplish something great.

One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.

I still think I am the greatest.

We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.

Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye. - Recognizing the subjective nature of beauty.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.