I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.
—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love
You don't need a significant other to lead a significant life.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman
By letting go of what you thought was going to happen in your life, you can enjoy what is actually happening.
—Taylor Negron
I can feel my life changing and I'm not ready.
—Jennifer Elisabeth
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
—Emily Dickinson
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
—Lou Holtz
With renunciation life begins.
—Amelia Barr
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
—Mark Twain
You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.
—Eric Roth in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Live your life as if each moment is your last. This isn't about going crazy. It's about appreciation.
—Rachel Van Dyken in Pull
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.
—Jackie Windspear
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blond Hero—really look—and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he said. When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message: "You must change your life.
—Ursula K. Le Guin
Traveling is the great true love of my life. I have always felt, ever since I was sixteen years old and first went to Russia with my saved-up babysitting money, that to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love for travel, as I have not always been loyal and constant in my other loves. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless, newborn baby—I just don't care what it puts me through.
—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
—Horace Walpole