All Quotes By Tag: Life

“Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…you give them a piece of you. They don’t ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore.”

“It’s your life; you don’t need someone’s permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart.”

“How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.”

“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.”

“The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”

“That’s what literature is. It’s the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”

“Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”

“Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”

“No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.”

“If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wiseIf you can dream – and not make dreams your master;If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same;If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spokenTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out toolsIf you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginningsAnd never breathe a word about your loss;If you can force your heart and nerve and sinewTo serve your turn long after they are gone,And so hold on when there is nothing in youExcept the will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with Kings – nor lose the common touch,If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,If all men count with you, but none too much;If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!”

“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”

“The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.”

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”