“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”— Joan Didion, amazon.comTagged: Life, Change, Loss, Heartbreak
“There are no happy endings, endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle, and a very happy start.”— Shel Silverstein, amazon.comTagged: Sadness, Happiness, Life, Loss, Love
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”— Joan Didion, amazon.comTagged: Stories, Writing, Life, purpose
“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.comTagged: Life, Existentialism, People, The Human Condition, Finding Meaning
“I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.”— Louis CK, books.google.comTagged: Bored, Life, love life
“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.comTagged: Life, Existentialism, Fully Experiencing Life, Embracing Life, Metaphorical Death
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”— Helen Keller, amazon.comTagged: Security, Life
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.comTagged: Death, Life, The Human Condition, Living, Loving Each Other
“Life's as kind as you let it be.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.comTagged: Life, Perspective, kindness, Optimism
“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good eith…”— Roald Dahl, amazon.comTagged: Enthusiasm, ENFP, Life, Loving Life, Living Fully
“The idea is to participate in your existence.”— Buddy Wakefield, youtube.comTagged: Life, Living, Taking Action, Taking Initiative, Making Things Happen
“So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Life, Optimism, Cultivating Happiness, Dealing with anxiety
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.comTagged: Life, Resilience, strength, Overcoming Obstacles, Change
“All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Lessons, Learning, Life, Progression, Moving Forward
“You live out the confusions until they become clear.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.comTagged: Confusion, Life, Challenges, Change, Navigating Change
“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Perspective, Adventure, Life, Choices, Optimism
“If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Exploration, Life, Optimism, Destiny
“You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I’ve always thought—put together all those random pieces form everyone whose ever known you, from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you’d probably see a fuller version of your life tha…”— Deb Caletti, amazon.comTagged: Perception, Life Story, Relationships, Life
“The questions are always more important than the answers.”— Randy Pausch, amazon.comTagged: Questioning, ENFP, Exploration, Understanding, Life
“I learned that it was in hard times that people usually changed the course of their life; in good times, they frequently only talked about change. Hard times forced them to overcome the doubts that normally gave them pause.It surprised me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.”— Po Bronson, amazon.comTagged: Life, Change, Chaos, Making Hard Choices, Crossroads
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Life, Hope, Crisis, Crises, Change
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Life, Challenge, Overcoming Adversity, Change, Failure
“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: Life, Improvement, Good In Life
“Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the 'Funky Chicken' on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance, so ar…”— Baz Luhrmann, amazon.comTagged: Life, Choices, Failures, Marriage, Lyrics
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.comTagged: Love, Life, Perspective, Inspirational
“You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.”— Jane Hirshfield, amazon.comTagged: Life, Starting Over, Change, Personal Growth, New Beginning
“I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Life, Alternate Lives, Alternate Universes, Decisions, Making Decisions
“Sometimes the novel is not ready to be written because you haven’t met the inspiration for your main character yet. Sometimes you need two more years of life experience before you can make your masterpiece into something that will feel real and true and raw to other people. Sometimes you’re not fall…”— Jamie Varon, medium.comTagged: Change, Life, Timing, Falling Behind, Patience
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.”— John Barrymore, brainyquote.comTagged: Happiness, Excitment, Life, Loving Life