All Quotes By Tag: Life-lessons

“We can’t help the way we’re born. We can’t help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves”

“It feels like I’m stuck in one spot. It’s been this way for a long time. I know you understand, but now you’re moving on without me. And I—I’m not ready to be alone.”

“It’s like everyone has their own little recipe for happiness, but no one really seems all that happy.”

“Happiness isn’t something you work toward, the same way misery isn’t something you work toward.”

“See, you’ve got to understand, son. There’s two types of guys in this world. There’s guys . . . who think they’re in control, and guys like us who live in the moment. Who accept life as it is.”

“I gave up drinking before my twentieth birthday. I haven’t touched the stuff since. And I’ve discovered that not everyone who does horrible things is a horrible person.”

“Every problem comes with two things – a suffering and a message. The only difference between a winner and loser is which one of those two things he holds on to.”

“You should not be generous at the expense of others; it is counterproductive.”

“Life’s trail can double back and retrace it’s path several times but when it does you learn more. What is the same is also different.”

“The journey of life is the joy of existence.”

“A man dies, girl, he isn’t any more, least not down here. Respect and all that crap doesn’t deserve the dead; it just makes the living feel better. The dead one, maybe he is somewhere else– maybe all he needs to be somewhere else is to believe he will be somewhere else. I won’t deny a man his belief, and I don’t know any more’n you about souls and all that stuff. But I know this: Speaking good or bad about something that isn’t anymore is a bloody waste of time. I can’t feature Saint Peter sitting up there saying: ‘Hey, Adam, there’s folks bad-mouthing you down there. What’d you do to merit that?”

“We can only do what we can do.”

“Life’s full of chances to hurt yourself or someone else […] In the next few days, you’ll have more chances to hurt yourself than most men get in a lifetime. It’s learning things and doing things right that make it worthwhile, make a man easy with himself. When I was young, nobody could tell me anything. I knew it all. It took a lot of mistakes to teach me that I didn’t know goose shit from tapioca.”

“If that’s the case, I understand why emotions are hard for you. You’ve numbed yourself to make room for the grief you carry.”

“His despair was delicious when I told him what I’d done to her. What I would make you into. Not a child of peace-but of war.”