Quotes About Life #2

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” 
― George Bernard Shaw


“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.” 
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters


“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” 
― Albert Einstein


“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” 
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night


“Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.” 
― John Wayne


“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” 
― Anne Frank


“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” 
― E.B. White


“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.” 
― Gilda Radner


“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” 
― Margaret Mead


“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.” 
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close


“But better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.” 
― Khaled Hosseini


“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
"After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.” 
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows


“Death ends a life, not a relationship.” 
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie


“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” 
― Gustave Flaubert


“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” 
― Isaac Asimov


“Where there is love there is life.” 
― Mahatma Gandhi


“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” 
― May Sarton


“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” 
― Virginia Woolf


“We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.” 
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows


“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” 
― Oscar Wilde


“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.” 
― John Greenleaf Whittier, Maud Muller - Pamphlet


“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” 
― John Lennon


“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.” 
― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto


“Get busy living or get busy dying.” 
― Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption


“May you live every day of your life.” 
― Jonathan Swift


“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” 
― George Bernard Shaw


“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.” 
― Woody Allen


“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.” 
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged


“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.” 
― Albert Schweitzer


“Life is to be enjoyed, not endured” 
― Gordon B. Hinckley

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