Life Quotes

life sucks
indeed ,indeed
but you can't help but not
rid life of things you don't need

"Katie, being wise is not about knowing a bunch of quotes, it's about what you've experienced yourself. 'Cause you can't explain something you've never felt. At least in your own words. You can use a quote of someone who's already felt it though."

Gosh, life is so cruel. It shows you happiness, then whisks it all away, and you're left with nothing but memories and broken promises about a future you'd do anything to have.

I wish so bad that you could know how much it would cost you to lose someone, before its too late, and that way, you don’t lose the ONE thing you cant live without. Because if you just knew what life would be like without them, you wouldn’t just stand there. You would FIGHT for it.

You can’t lock the door to your heart when it comes to the person who once had a key.

I went searching for my life's purpose, and found that there isn't one thing that defines us. We are electric and ever changing. Things are constantly ending and beginning again. We are the beautiful moments in between.

But in my opinion, bravery isn't about the absence of fear. Being brave is when you're absolutely terrified, yet you can make yourself face your fears, no matter how scared you are.

"You can bandage the damage, but you never really can fix a heart"

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

We make all these plans about how things will turn out. But life happens. Plans change. So we doubt. We draw on strength we didn't know we had. We give up any allusions of control. And we deal head on with problems that come our way.

Don't let go of what you love, until you know it can stand on it's own.

"Oh I had no clue you were masking a troubled soul, God only knows what went wrong.."

Don't become something just because someone else wants you to, or because it's easy; you won't be happy. You have to do what you really, really, really, really want to do, even if it scares the shit out of you.

Many try to go back to the past, despite the laws of space and time. You can try something simpler. Just turn your head back!

"You think the only people who are people are the ones who think and act like you, but if you walk the foot steps of a stranger, you'll find things you never knew"

"No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they're not."

I think about how hard it is - even with the desire, and even with the will and the time - I think of how hard it is to reach that spot inside us that remains pure that we never manage to touch but which we know exists.

Somewhere, years ago, so many of us broke the link between love and sex. Once broken, it can never be fixed again.

After a while you understand the way that things can go wrong in people's lives; you learn all the patterns and the temptations; you recognize the ways people use other people...You don't want to waste the energy, so instead you learn tolerance, and compassion and love - and distance.

In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on.