143 Inspiring Life Quotes

In our journey through life, we often seek words of wisdom that resonate with our experiences, uplift our spirits, and motivate us to reach our full potential. Whether it’s a gentle nudge during difficult times or a beacon of inspiration to keep us moving forward, powerful quotes have the ability to transform our mindset and outlook. Here, we've meticulously gathered a selection of 143 inspiring life quotes designed to spark motivation and encourage introspection. These reflections from renowned thinkers, leaders, and creatives provide a rich tapestry of perspectives, offering guidance and enlightenment for every chapter of your life. Dive in and discover the words that will ignite your inner drive and inspire you to live with purpose and passion.

1. “First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.” - Virginia Woolf

2. “A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.” - Albert Camus

3. “Don't Worry Be Happy” - Meher Baba

4. “My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.” - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

5. “Life is the art of being well-deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.” - William Hazlitt

6. “To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?” - Salman Rushdie

7. “It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right.” - Paulo Coelho

8. “I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.” - Sabrina Ward Harrison

9. “Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.” - Percy Bysshe Shelley

10. “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.” - Walt Disney Company

11. “I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.” - Soren Kierkegaard

12. “The letter said that they were two feet high, and green, and shaped like plumber's friends. Their suction cups were on the ground, and their shafts, which were extremely flexible, usually pointed to the sky. At the top of each shaft was a little hand with a green eye in its palm. The creatures were friendly, and they could see in four dimensions. They pitied Earthlings for being able to see only three. They had many wonderful things to teach Earthlings, especially about time. Billy promised to tell what some of those wonderful things were in his next letter.Billy was working on his second letter when the first letter was published. The second letter started out like this:The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in a bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "so it goes.” - Kurt Vonnegut

13. “Mama told me to make a special point to remember the best times of my life. There are so many hard things to live through, and latching on to the good things will give you strength to endure, she says. So I must remember this day. It is beautiful and this seems like the best time to live and the best place” - Nancy E. Turner

14. “I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.” - Harold Kushner

15. “The only certainty life contains is death.” - Patricia Briggs

16. “Ester asked why people are sad."That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.” - Paulo Coelho

17. “Lately I can't help wanting usto be like other people.For example, if I were a smoker,you'd lift a match to the cigarettejust as I put it between my lips.It's never been like thatbetween us: none of thateasy chemistry, no quick, half automaticflares. Everything between ushad to be learned.Saturday finds me broodingbehind my book, all my fantasiesof seduction run upagainst the rocks.Tell me againwhy you don't likesex in the afternoon?No, don't tell me--I'll never understand younever understand us, America's strangestloving couple: they neverdrink a bottle of wine togetherand rarely look at each other.Into each other's eyes, I mean.” - Deborah Garrison

18. “My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.” - Amy Sedaris

19. “... 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.” - Jane Green

20. “If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.” - David Deida

21. “Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving.” - Margaret Mitchell

22. “Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken.” - Neil Gaiman

23. “sometime life is full of joy,and sometime life is full of pain and tears but we have to defeat it” - Meena Khan

24. “Find the Key ! Find the Key ! If you want to open the Doors of Heaven ! Without which, you can at best, look from outside, like the pauper looking in through the window at your food when hungry. Find the Key !” - AainaA-Ridtz A R

25. “Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.” - Nancy Mitford

26. “If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.” - Fernando Pessoa

27. “The miracle of life is given by One greater than ourselves, but once given, each life is ours to nurture and preserve, to foster, not only for today's world but for a better one to come. There is no purpose more noble than for us to sustain and celebrate life in a turbulent world, and that is what we must do now. We have no higher duty, no greater cause as humans. Life and the preservation of freedom to live it in dignity is what we are on this Earth to do. Everything we work to achieve must seek that end so that some day our prime ministers, our premiers, our presidents, and our general secretaries will talk not of war and peace, but only of peace.” - Ronald Reagan

28. “Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are.Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends,And we have friends and no butlers.(excerpt from 'The Garrett')” - Ezra Pound

29. “What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.” - Charles Baudelaire

30. “Empowerment is the ability to refine, improve, and enhance your life without co-dependency.” - Steve Maraboli

31. “Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.” - Rashi

32. “Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.” - George Orwell

33. “Get Off The Scale!You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable. Day after day, countless people across the globe get on a scale in search of validation of beauty and social acceptance.Get off the scale! I have yet to see a scale that can tell you how enchanting your eyes are. I have yet to see a scale that can show you how wonderful your hair looks when the sun shines its glorious rays on it. I have yet to see a scale that can thank you for your compassion, sense of humor, and contagious smile. Get off the scale because I have yet to see one that can admire you for your perseverance when challenged in life.It’s true, the scale can only give you a numerical reflection of your relationship with gravity. That’s it. It cannot measure beauty, talent, purpose, life force, possibility, strength, or love. Don’t give the scale more power than it has earned. Take note of the number, then get off the scale and live your life. You are beautiful!” - Steve Maraboli

34. “We are, on earth, two distinct races. Those who have need of others, whom others amuse, engage soothe, whom solitude harasses, pains, stupefies, like the movement of a terrible glacier or the traversing of the desert; and those, on the contrary, whom others weary, tire, bore, silently torture, whom isolation calms and bathes in the repose of independency, and plunges into the humors of their own thoughts. In fine, there is here a normal, physical phenomenon. Some are constituted to live a life outside of themselves, others, to live a life within themselves. As for me, my exterior associations are abruptly and painfully short-lived, and, as they reach their limits, I experience in my whole body and in my whole intelligence an intolerable uneasiness. ” - Guy de Maupassant

35. “It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is.” - Jeanette Winterson

36. “For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part without a pang with every possession I have. We live in uncertain times and our all may yet be taken from us. With enough plain food to satisfy my small appetite, a room to myself, books from a public library, pens and paper, I should regret nothing.” - W. Somerset Maugham

37. “I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.” - John Fowles

38. “On a second note, though, I have something to say about pain. There are lots of kinds of pain. Pain of smashing your fingers in a car door, pains of loosing a baby, pain of failing a test. But in their own little ways, these pains are all agonizing. Which is sad, and yet, happy, if you really think about it. If we never lost our car keys, or stepped in gum, or had a bad hair day, what kind of people would we be? In a word? Boring. We wouldn't be passionate; we wouldn't know it was exciting to get pregnant, or score an A on a final. So that's why, today at least, I am grateful for pain. Because it's part of what makes me the whacky, goofy, jaded, person that I am. Peace.” - Alysha Speer

39. “Adulthood is a wonderful thing, and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts.” - Marilynne Robinson

40. “I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them...” - Annie Dillard

41. “At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously. ... That's why my Grandmother Clara wrote in her notebooks, in order to see things in their true dimension and to defy her own poor memory.” - Isabel Allende

42. “I dislike routine, but I am a creature of habit.” - M.J. Croan

43. “The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.” - Jonathan Haidt

44. “Tears are words the heart can't express” - Gerard Way

45. “I told her how I thought you could always revise your life, how you could work and work on it, finesse the details, see if what you're saying is what you wanted to be saying.” - John Dufresne

46. “It was as if his eye were an ear and a crackle went through it each time he shot a look at the accordion. ...The notes fell, biting and sharp; it seemed the tooth that bit was hollowed with pain. ” - Annie Proulx

47. “Be undeniably good.” - Steve Martin

48. “I am the sun who will bring delight when you are in-front of me. I am the moon who will show shyness when you are away from me.” - Santosh Kalwar

49. “It’s not that they’re small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the slow smile with lips that can conjure your heart under the hills for a hundred years. It’s not that they’re small. It’s that we’re so far away.” - Neil Gaiman

50. “A bitter reality of truth can be wisely told in a sweet tale of lullaby.” - Toba Beta

51. “The Secret to saneful living is in the Key between these two worlds. In order to serve the higher ideal, one must revert to serving the Spark within all the multiplicities herein conceivable in the apparent world. The spark in itself is not contained for it encompasses both realities, that of the inner, and the apparent” - AainaA-Ridtz A R

52. “She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.” - P.G. Wodehouse

53. “What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.” - Richard Ford

54. “If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough.” - Richard Ford

55. “I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.” - Libba Bray

56. “I felt alone on the planet, drifting through the cosmos. With both hands I reached out to the night. There was no answer. Or maybe I just couldn't hear it.” - Jerry Spinelli

57. “The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.” - Shimon Peres

58. “No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.” - Samuel Beckett

59. “I'm talking about a little truth-in-packaging here. To be perfectly frank, you don't quite look like yourself. And if you walk around looking like someone other than who you are, you could end up getting the wrong job, the wrong friends, who knows what-all. You could end up with somebody else's life."I shrugged again, and smiled. "This is my life," I said. "It doesn't seem like the wrong one.” - Michael Cunningham

60. “Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

61. “In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive.” - Roman Payne

62. “That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.” - Deb Caletti

63. “Suffering has its place in the scheme of things. It serves a purpose even though the sufferer may be entirely free from the taint of sin... Among the gentlest and sweetest souls are sometimes found those who suffer much. A person that accepts his lot, does his best, loving both God and man, is a success and will experience a joy in living.” - Joseph F. Merrill

64. “Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots.” - Ovid

65. “...unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. If you're not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it with knowledge. Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience. Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more comprehensible language. The individual events of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you will never again have the original moment back in its uncategorized, preprocessed state. It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.” - Charles Yu

66. “I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know,whoever I was, I wasalive for a little while.” - Mary Oliver

67. “My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.” - Anne Brontë

68. “A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people!” - Marc Bekoff

69. “The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life” - Mohammed Naseehu Ali

70. “While the powers of the Primal Cause lie in causation, it shows itself in process through thoughts, perception and conception. It is the power of the Primal Cause to decipher what is perceived from the ordered plane and conceive judgments through thoughts from the unordered.” - Dew Platt

71. “There is ascension to potential that Plato couldn’t conceive while prescribing idealism to conception as highest existences. With Streams, there isn’t a difference between ideas and instantiations. They are both authenticated within all possibilities in Stream, within the Primal Cause as ordered. Ideas as ordered constructs in consciousness, instantiations as ordered effects. Instantiations for instance are ordered products from ideas. Ideas are ordered constructs in consciousness. And in authentication, they are the same as external effects.” - Dew Platt

72. “There are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise astronomy only during that habitable time interval in cosmic history.” - John D. Barrow

73. “He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.” - Robert Cormier

74. “That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.” - Gena Showalter

75. “No one can take the shot for you.” - Lorii Myers

76. “I'm half good and I'm half bad. My mama is a very good girl and my daddy is a very bad boy. And I guess that leaves me somewhere sort of...here.” - C. JoyBell C.

77. “There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something; Gifted people ARE that something.” - Steve Maraboli

78. “One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison.” - Steve Maraboli

79. “Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.” - Criss Jami

80. “I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations.” - C. JoyBell C.

81. “To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Death—however “humane”—is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike.” - Gary L. Francione

82. “I remember my brother as such a gentle and loving child, the best big brother a girl could hope for, but I remember when I started to sense our family's world tilting on its axis, the kaleidoscope turning, when things started to go wrong. From then on, it was like we were still ourselves, but our lives played out as though reflected back to us from a funhouse mirror.” - Jessica Warman

83. “Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.” - Anthony Burgess

84. “I'm not the elevator to open the door every time you push the button” - T.T.

85. “What is more terrifying-- the things we imagine or the things that are real?” - Suzanne Selfors

86. “I'm sorry, but nothing 'just happens'. Stuff happens because either we make it happen or we let it.” - Jessie Jones

87. “Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.” - Neil Gaiman

88. “he knew that fate was only a mythological concept” - Dean Koontz

89. “It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of memory together with the diaries and letters and the scribbled thoughts that clutter my mind and bookshelves, then maybe I can explain what happened. Maybe the worlds I have inhabited for the past seven years will assume order and logic and wholeness on paper. Maybe I can tell my story in a way that is useful to someone else.” - Nancy Horan

90. “Only the dead stay 17 forever.” - Haruki Murakami

91. “It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.” - Mary Shelley

92. “We losers don't fear death. For us it's the end of a lifelong losing spell.” - Dakota Dawn

93. “المدينة التي تزدحم فيها الطرقات تزدحم فيها الأفكار وكلّما حلّقت في سماءها طائرة حلّقت أمامها أمنية لتدلّها على الطريق” - ياسر حارب

94. “I long ago developed a very practical smile, which I call my "Noh smile" because it resembles a Noh mask whose features are frozen. Its advantage is that men can interpret it however they want; you can imagine how often I've relied on it.” - Arthur Golden, Memoirs Of A Geisha

95. “Strong relationships come from well-bonded friendships.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

96. “I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.” - Rudyard Kipling

97. “The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.” - John Eldredge Brent Curtis

98. “I wanted to throw myself into an experience that was too big for me and learn in a way that cost me something” - Jamie Zeppa

99. “It's simple; be YOU. If you're not being you, you're being someone else. YOU are not here to be someone else.” - Steve Maraboli

100. “It was cool to wake up knowing your day would include someone else in a way that was integral to life.” - Kristen Ashley

101. “I mean, you really can't imagine how awesome coffee tastes, or how awesome it is to hear music, to hear idiots talking... I mean, it hurts. Everything hurts. But everything in the world is so awesome that sometimes I just can't stand it.” - Adam Selzer

102. “لو كان الموت يصنع شيئا لوقف مد الحياة!..ولكنه قوة ضئيلة حسيرة، بجانب قوى الحياة الزاخرة الطافرة الغامرة...!.” - سيد قطب

103. “I spend a lot of time trying to convince myself that nothing really matters except being alive.” - Sarah Miller

104. “You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!” - Ray Bradbury

105. “When things run out of control it is because we failed to control how reality plays out. How you manage and control your reality will come to determine your life.” - Steven Redhead

106. “Things changed. Then they changed again. Life was like that, and even death, I guess.” - Kami Garcia

107. “As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.” - Aphra Behn

108. “After you're gone, people will forget your name, no matter how important it was, and your face, no matter how pretty it was, and what you said, no matter how clever any of it sounded.The things you've done will crumble and fade and the places you once loved, will change and be given new names.You are only here for one moment and it lasts exactly one lifetime.” - pleasefindthis

109. “But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.” - Alice Walker The Color Purple

110. “We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.” - Nicholas Sparks

111. “If I'd been a cowboy, it might've ended well.Somewhere on the ramble, I'm sure I'd have to sellMy guns along the highway. My coins to the table To make a gambler's double, I'd double debts to pay.Prob'ly shrink and slink away, It mightn't've ended well.What If I'd been a sailor? I think it might've ended well.From August to MayFor a searat of man drifting through eternal blue, aboard the finest Debris.I might've called the shanties. From daybreak to storm's set, lines stay Taught, over rhythm unbroken.But, oh, there's a schism unspoken, a mighty calling of the lee.An absentminded Pirate, unaccustomed to the sea;To the land, a traitor. I think it mightn't've ended well. What might've worked for me? What might've ended well?Soldier, to bloody sally forth through hell?Teacher of glorious stories to tell?Man of gold, or stores to sell?Lover to a gentle belle? Maybe a camel;A seashell.What mightn't've been a life where it mightn't've ended well?” - Dylan Thomas McCall

112. “The naked man had lost hope now; he would never be able to return to the earth's surface;he would never leave the bottom of this shaft, and he would go mad there drinking blood and eating human flesh, without ever being able to die. Up there, against the sky, there were good angels with ropes, and bad angels with grenades and rifles, and a big old man with a white beard who waved his arms but could not save him.” - Italo Calvino

113. “I've been stabbed lately with life.” - Pepper Phillips

114. “continuamos viviendo cada uno a su manera, incluso ahora. Por profunda y fatal que sea la perdida, por importante que sea lo que nos han arrancado de las manos, aunque nos hayamos convertido en alguien completamente distinto y solo conservemos, de lo que antes eramos, una fina capa de piel, a pesar de todo, podemos continuar viviendo, asi, en silencio” - Haruki Murakami

115. “Do the new, be the change.” - Neeraj Vohara

116. “Let the love grow. Your mistake would be to rush it. Never allowing the seeds you've planted to grow, is all you'll be doing. Everything takes time. Nothing blooms overnight. If you want that man to stay in your life you must be the woman in the relationship. Men if you want that woman to stay, you must be the man in the relationship. Nothing just comes to you. If you want it, you have to try and even sacrifice. No pain, no gain. That's life, whether you accept it or not it's going to always stay the same.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

117. “All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.” - Candace Bushnell

118. “Dongeng seharusnya tetap menjadi dongeng.” - Orizuka

119. “Do not Forget PAIN, You Endure in it's presence!!” - Abhijeet Sawant

120. “Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Harness your energy to start expanding your dreams. Yes, expand your dreams. Don't accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. Dare to tap into your greatness.” - Robin S. Sharma

121. “I really like Google+ it's much better than face book. The only game you can play on it is life. Which is a game that can only be played and never won.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

122. “She would die feeling, because that was the way she had always lived.” - Britt Skrabanek

123. “Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special.” - Osho

124. “Kebahagiaan itu harus diperjuangkan, bukan dengan cara mengemis minta belas kasihan, rendah diri, dan pasrah nasib! Begitu nasihat Mamanya.” - Gola Gong

125. “And life definitely doesn't want me To just let it tell me that the girl I met,The beautiful, amazing, strong, resilient girl That I fell so hard forShould only come in third Life knows. Life is trying to tell neThat the girl I love The girl I fellSo hard for?There's room for her in first. I'm putting her first.” - Colleen Hoover

126. “The first snow is like the first love. Do you remember your first snow?” - Lara Biyuts

127. “My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.” - Olive Schreiner

128. “Abstain not! Life and love like night and dayoffer themselves to us on their own terms,not ours. Accept their bounty while ye may,before we accept by the worms,” - Richard Hovey

129. “How long, I wonder, does it take a thing or a place or even a person to feel like home?” - Lauren Baratz-Logsted

130. “Is better die trying than living without doing nothing” - Rudzani

131. “Awareness is a choiceless consciousness. Awareness is the capacity to embrace, accept and include both joy and sadness, love and aloneness, light and darkness, male and female qualities and life and death. Through saying “yes” and accepting both tendencies and including whatever aspect that happens in the moment, we meet our unlimited and boundless inner being. The inner man and woman need to find their own independence and integrity.” - Swami Dhyan Giten

132. “Reason is the greatest good, reciprocity the rule.” - Thad Schwartz

133. “Don’t let the agony, regret, or fog of yesterday blind you to the fact that each new day carries with it a plethora of opportunities to move your life into the right direction.” - Steve Maraboli

134. “Never sit under a tree waiting for the apple to fall. Climb the tree, grab that apple!When it comes, never be inert and take your time, TIME TO MOVE!” - Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

135. “Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.” - Kurt Cobain

136. “Une lutte qui semble perdue, est la plus excitante.” - Jacques Tardi

137. “Be positive at all times! Leave out the negatives.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

138. “It's life, Sidda. You just climb on the beast and ride.” - Rebecca Wells

139. “Nothing Comes Home...You Have To Get OUT & Get IT~!” - Sujit Lalwani

140. “Despite your best efforts and intentions, there's a limited reservoir to fellowship before you begin to rely solely on the vapors of nostalgia. Eventually, you move on, latch on to another group of friends. Once in a while, though, you remember something, a remark or a gesture, and it takes you back. You think how close all of you were, the laughs and commiserations, the fondness and affection and support. You recall the parties, the trips, the dinners and late, late nights. Even the arguments and small betrayals have a revisionist charm in retrospect. You're astonished and enlivened by the memories. You wonder why and how it ever stopped. You have the urge to pick up the phone, fire off an email, suggesting reunion, resumption, and you start to act, but then don't, because it would be awkward talking after such a long lag, and, really, what would be the point? Your lives are different now. Whatever was there before is gone. And it saddens you, it makes you feel old and vanquished--not only over this group that disbanded, but also over all the others before and after it, the friends you had in grade and high school, in college, in your twenties and thirties, your kinship to them (never mind to all your old lovers) ephemeral and, quite possibly, illusory to begin with.” - Don Lee

141. “Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?” - joshua foer

142. “How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life.[Written to his wife, Mileva]” - Albert Einstein

143. “One thing you'll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant about themselves, it's usually true.” - Cassandra Clare