Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
—Will Rogers
If we’d never met, I think I would have known my life wasn’t complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn’t know who I was looking for.
—Nicholas Sparks in The Longest Ride
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
—George Eliot
It gives one a feeling of confidence to see nature still busy with experiments, still dynamic, and not through nor satisfied because a Devonian fish managed to end as a two-legged character with a straw hat. There are other things brewing and growing in the oceanic vat. It pays to know this. It pays to know that there is just as much future as there is past. The only thing that doesn't pay is to be sure of man's own part in it. There are things down there still coming ashore.
—Loren Eiseley
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success.
—Sigmund Freud
Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.
—Jamaica Kincaid
I figure when my husband comes home from work, if the kids are still alive, then I've done my job.
—Roseanne Barr
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
—Joseph Campbell
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.
—Reinhold Niebuhr
You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
—Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook
Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
—Fran Lebowitz
Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.
—Paul Tillich
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
—John F. Kennedy
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
—Charles M. Schulz
The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact we can see. And the more selfish we remain and self-centered, the more selfish our way of life is, the lonelier we feel and the more miserable. This is also a fact we can see.
—14th Dalai Lama