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"There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be..."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, destiny, fate, life
197 people liked it

"I've got nothing to do today but smile."
— Simon and Garfunkel

tags: happiness, life
224 people liked it

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
155 people liked it

"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony."
— Douglas Coupland (Shampoo Planet)

tags: irony, life, loneliness
183 people liked it

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why
171 people liked it

"You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different."
— Bill Watterson

tags: change, life
223 people liked it

"It is not the length of life, but the depth."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life
156 people liked it

"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."
— Gabriel García Márquez

tags: life, memories
144 people liked it

"I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things."
— Jonathan Safran Foer

tags: life
158 people liked it

"You can have it all. Just not all at once."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: dreams, life, time
125 people liked it

"why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out"
— Oliver James

tags: individuality, inspirational, life
170 people liked it

"to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again."
— Ellen Bass

tags: acceptance, hope, life, love
158 people liked it

"Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane."
— H.P. Lovecraft

tags: dance, dancing, life
92 people liked it

"We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon."
— Jimmy Carter

tags: christ, jesus, judgement, life, preparation, religion
82 people liked it

"My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story."
— Johnny Depp

tags: life
92 people liked it

"That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories)

tags: life, writing
104 people liked it

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
93 people liked it

"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
— Horace Walpole

tags: comedy, emotions, life, perspective, thinking, tragedy
71 people liked it

"Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect."
— Margaret Mitchell

tags: expectation, hope, life
90 people liked it

"Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with."
— Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic)

tags: life
61 people liked it

"From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success.... I'm just here to cash in."
— Bill Watterson (Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat)

tags: humor
72 people liked it

"Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words."
— Bill Watterson

61 people liked it

"If you can't win by reason, go for volume."
— Bill Watterson

tags: arguments, humor, loudness, reason
53 people liked it

"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. "
— Bill Watterson

58 people liked it

"I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information."
— Bill Watterson

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"For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today."
— Bill Watterson

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"Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made. "
— Bill Watterson

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"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory."
— Antonio Porchia

tags: death, hope, immortality, life, memory, remembrance
62 people liked it

"Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or
make excuses. "
— Brian Tracy

tags: life, wisdom
75 people liked it

"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."
— Marcus Aurelius

tags: beauty, life, stars
66 people liked it

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life
57 people liked it

"You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: life, pessimism
61 people liked it

"Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room."
— Bill Gates

tags: activism, choices, life, society
53 people liked it

"I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade...and try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
"
— Ron White

tags: lemons, life, party
41 people liked it

"When all else fails, there's always delusion."
— Conan O'Brien

tags: absurd, life
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"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

tags: be, inspirational, yourself
1,855 people liked it

"In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)

134 people liked it

"Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories."
— Chuck Palahniuk

142 people liked it

"We'll never be as young as we are tonight."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)

tags: age, youth
134 people liked it

"If you're going to read this, don't bother."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Choke)

tags: first-sentence, reading
69 people liked it

"Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Diary)

tags: weather
134 people liked it

"I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to."
— Jimi Hendrix

tags: death, life
1,152 people liked it

"I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer."
— Woody Allen

tags: humor, life, sex
1,111 people liked it

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'"
— John Greenleaf Whittier (Maud Muller - Pamphlet)

tags: life, words
1,288 people liked it

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity."
— Gilda Radner

tags: ambiguity, life, stories, uncertainty, unpredictability
1,071 people liked it

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."
— Laozi

tags: life, travel
347 people liked it

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
— Tom Clancy

tags: life
362 people liked it

"Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you."
— Stephanie Klein (Straight up and Dirty)

tags: humor, life, memoir, truth
375 people liked it

"If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does."
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything is Illuminated: A Novel)

tags: life, love
277 people liked it

"Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: humor, life
254 people liked it

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