- “They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn’t play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.” ― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
- “Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn’t last, it prepares you for the one that will.” ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
- “When you compete, you gain more than you lose, even when you lose.” ― Aaron Lauritsen
- “At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no friends or toys, you toyed with dreams of murder, because that is a game to play alone.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit and Three Other Plays
- “The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.” ― Lao Tzu
- “Take every day as a chance to become a better Muslim. Don’t be like those who forgot God, so God caused them to forget their own souls.” ― Algazelus
- “Let go of something old that no longer serves you in order to make room for something new.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
- “Great things happen to those who don’t stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
- “You are dead till you live for others.” ― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
- “Just do right.” ― Jill Telford
- “If you can’t do anything about it, laugh like hell.” ― David Cook
- “When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it’ll never end. But however hard you try you can’t run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever for one moment, accepts it. Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. (In the library, the Doctor walks back to the TARDIS. He stops, looking at the doors. Then he raises his hand, and stands there poised like that for a long moment. Finally he snaps his fingers. The doors open. He smiles slowly and walks in, joining Donna. Then he snaps his fingers again, and the doors close. River’s voice continues over this.) Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair, and the Doctor comes to call… everybody lives.” ― Steven Moffat
- “Life is just too much for me. I’ve been confused right from the day I was born… I think the whole trouble is that we’re thrown into life too fast… We’re not really prepared…””What did you want… A chance to warm up first?” ― Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960
- “When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.” ― Roy T. Bennett
- “You can’t always be right, but you can be wrong a lot less” ― Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
- “हर वक़्त को बदलने के लिये थोडा वक़्त दो, वो वक़्त भी बदल गया था, ये वक़्त भी बदल जायेगा” ― Anuj Jasani
- “Is there really no hope?” our young woman asked as she stood before her.”None whatever. There never has been. It has not been a successful life.””No — it has only been a beautiful one.” ― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
- “There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found.” ― Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
- “The journey was a worthwhile. We gain new insight into cultural diversity.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “Through all life changes , God is in control.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.” ― Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa
- “The purpose of life is to reach a point where you can say ‘yes’ to all of it.” ― Eric Micha’el Leventhal
- “How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.” ― C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
- “Our worlds, the little worlds of all living things, are enmeshed beyond all entangling. And yet we’re not all one, the birds, us, the insects, worms, flowers, the rest, not exactly; we’re walled up within our own experiences, our own capacities. We share a physical world but our sensory and mental worlds remain discrete, entire, complete.” ― Richard Smyth, An Indifference of Birds
- “Fear no more,” said Clarissa. Fear no more the heat o’ the sun; for the shock of Lady Bruton asking Richard to lunch without her made the moment in which she had stood shiver, as a plant on the river-bed feels the shock of a passing oar and shivers: so she rocked: so she shivered.Millicent Bruton, whose lunch parties were said to be extraordinarily amusing, had not asked her. No vulgar jealousy could separate her from Richard. But she feared time itself, and read on Lady Bruton’s face, as if it had been a dial cut in impassive stone, the dwindling of life; how year by year her share was sliced; how little the margin that remained was capable any longer of stretching, of absorbing, as in the youthful years, the colours, salts, tones of existence, so that she filled the room she entered, and felt often as she stood hesitating one moment on the threshold of her drawing-room, an exquisite suspense, such as might stay a diver before plunging while the sea darkens and brightens beneath him, and the waves which threaten to break, but only gently split their surface, roll and conceal and encrust as they just turn over the weeds with pearl.” ― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
- “Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn’t give you what you desire – it tells you how to desire.” ― Slavoj Žižek
- “While we have breath, we must live to the fullness.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “I am a student of life, and don’t want to miss any experience. There’s poetry in this sort of thing, you know–or perhaps you don’t know, but it’s all the same.” ― H.P. Lovecraft, Old Bugs
- “It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death– ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.” ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
- “People who say you will fail are people who have never been successful in their lives” ― Anuj Jasani