Life Quotes

We spent our lives making livings.

Jonathan Safran Foer

As we drove, I imagined we were standing still and the world was coming toward us.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

L.M. Montgomery

Handling and use by able minds give value to a language, not so much by innovating as by filling it out with more vigorous and varied services, by stretching and bending it.

Michel de Montaigne

My mom,Sarah used to tell me that you could be anywhere when you life begins but you wouldn't know it until it changed everything you thought you knew

Shey Stahl

I wasn't the only one hungry on the road, it seemed; a single bite—even a minor scratch—from one of the infected, and we were as good as dead. (And so the cycle repeats.)

Bryant A. Loney

Don't confuse activity with action.

Mark Sanborn

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

Alan Lightman

My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.

Adyashanti

Good and evil keep happening in this world. It just takes a little longer for us to take the bad in our stride. And just when we think we've come to terms with bad, we're shocked to be haunted by that one query whose answer is ever as elusive - why o...

Tuhin A. Sinha

Desolina and Tony had attended one-room schoolhouses until the third grade. ... According to Tony, there were hardly enough pencils and sober teachers to go around. [Author's grandparents educational background.]

James Vescovi

...no matter how frequently we came, when we arrived, they acted as if we had been away one hundred years. [His grandparents' greeting.]

James Vescovi

None of my friends had grandparents like these. ... Tony and Desolina were exotic.

James Vescovi

I submit a body of facts which cannot be invalidated. My opinions may be doubted, denied, or approved, according as they conflict or agree with the opinions of each individual who may read them; but their worth will be best determined by the foundati...

William Beaumont

The body is the easiest thing to adjust to... It’s the life, the context of the body, that can be hard to grasp.

David Levithan

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

Jose Saramago

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. S...

Alan Lightman

You have forced your way into my Hua, Eona. Change me. First, by your power- then, just by who you are.

Alison Goodman

The witness of solid moral character to a righteous way of life must never be underestimated.

Arthur F. Holmes

If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the k nowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it, then the prospects for the future are bright. In contrast...

Urie Bromfenbrennner

We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

David Levithan