life quotes

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s a masterpiece after all. - Nathan W. Morris

That’s what life is, pretty much: full of holes and tangles and ways to get stuck. Uncomfortable and itchy. A present you never asked for, never wanted, never chose. A present you’re supposed to be excited to wear, day after day, even when you’d rather stay in bed and do nothing. - Lauren Oliver

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. - Henry Miller

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. - Henry Miller

I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading to. - Khaled Hosseini

May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by night. May the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into your being. May you walk gently through the world and know it’s beauty all the days of your life. - Apache blessing

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. - Henry Miller

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. - Henry Miller

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other. - Henry Miller

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. - Henry Miller

I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff. - Jon Katz

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. -Mark Twain

When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow. -Shauna Niequist

I only want to write. And there’s no college for that except life. -Dodie Smith

Look, let’s give it up. Let’s just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let’s drive down and look at the ocean. It’s only 45 minutes. Let’s play games in the arcades. Let’s go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let’s have friends. Let’s laugh. This kind of life like everybody else’s kind of life: it’s killing us. -Charles Bukowski, Post Office

I see myself as mom first. I’m so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart around me and at least I wake up with my kids and I’m happy. -Angelina Jolie

In the end, I am the only one who can give my children a happy mother who loves life. -Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard

Still the most magical day of my life is the day I became a mom. -Linda Becker

You can’t regret the life you didn’t lead. -Junot Diaz

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It doesn't matter how I begin my poems because by the end they are all about you

It doesn't matter how I begin my poems because by the end they are all about you

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