Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.
—Melody Beattie
Art is the proper task of life.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
—George Burns
We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong.
—Gayle Forman in Just One Day
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
—e. e. cummings
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
—Socrates
Sometimes life is a constant battle against the nostalgia of a time that can never be real again.
—Jason Myers in The Mission
You do not write your life with words. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
—Patrick Ness in A Monster Calls
Sometimes you plodded through life with nothing changing from one month to the next no matter how much you yearned for a revolution to erupt beneath your feet. And sometimes your whole world imploded and rebuilt itself in a matter of seconds.
—Laura Kaye in Hard as It Gets
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
—Gustave Courbet
I thought it would all fall into place. I've changed my mind. Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them.
—Mhairi McFarlane in You Had Me At Hello
Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.
—Jerry Rubin
My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog already thinks I am.
—Unknown
You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood—and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.
—Jessamyn West
Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest of your life mourning.
—Paulette Bates Alden