All Quotes By Tag: Life

“A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree.Dad: He’s not chopping it down. He’s saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch – by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.”

“It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.”

“Every challenge you face today makes you stronger tomorrow. The challenge of life is intended to make you better, not bitter.”

“I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.”

“it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.”

“Something amazing happens when you’re in love and don’t give a damn about what day it is anymore.”

“You can’t regret the life you didn’t lead.”

“There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.”

“There’s two kinds of women–those you write poems about and those you don’t.”

“I don’t want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like I’ll be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be crazy as the moon, wild as the wind and still as the earth. I want to be every single thing it’s possible to be. I’m growing and I don’t know how to grow. I’m living but I haven’t started living yet. Sometimes I simply disappear from myself. Sometimes it’s like I’m not here in the world at all and I simply don’t exist. Sometimes I can hardly think. My head just drifts, and the visions that come seem so vivid.”

“Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.”

“I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.”

“Life was not longer something to endure, but to live. ”

“Do you realize that all great literature — “Moby Dick,” “Huckleberry Finn,” “A Farewell to Arms,” “The Scarlet Letter,” “The Red Badge of Courage,” “The Iliad and The Odyssey,” “Crime and Punishment,” the Bible, and “The Charge of the Light Brigade” — are all about what a bummer it is to be a …human being?”

“One of the best ways to influence people is to make those around you feel important.”