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

tags: life
330 people liked it

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: life, philosophy
3,516 people liked it

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
— Mark Twain

tags: death, life
1,630 people liked it

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: art, life
755 people liked it

"The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
— Lily Tomlin

tags: humor, life, race, rat
468 people liked it

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: life, surrealistic
388 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
167 people liked it

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

tags: individuality, inspirational, life
149 people liked it

"Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for"
— Oliver James

tags: inspirational, life
71 people liked it

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself."
— Harvey S. Firestone

tags: inspirational, life
67 people liked it

"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."
— Eddie Cantor

tags: life
14 people liked it

"all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds."
— Richard Brautigan

tags: life, purpose
12 people liked it

"Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places."
— A.C. Grayling (The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century)

tags: life, principles, reason
9 people liked it

"Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings."
— Joseph Conrad

tags: life
6 people liked it

"In the colorful reflection we have what is life."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: life
5 people liked it

"You have to be nice to the people You want to take advantage of. - Basic lessons in manipulation for children"
— Joel Vuolevi

tags: life
3 people liked it

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
— Gustave Flaubert

tags: books, inspirational, life, reading
921 people liked it

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
— Woody Allen

tags: art, humor, life
330 people liked it

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: life
326 people liked it

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

tags: life
213 people liked it

"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
— Henry Miller

tags: life
151 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
139 people liked it

"Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind."
— Jeffrey Eugenides

tags: life
106 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
10,235 people liked it

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
4,134 people liked it

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: life, peace
1,158 people liked it

"If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

tags: cats, humor, life
738 people liked it

"At 50, everyone has the face he deserves."
— George Orwell

tags: age, life
33 people liked it

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes"
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: change, life
32 people liked it

"Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has yet to come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering"
— Ida Scott Taylor

tags: life
11 people liked it

"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live"
— Yutang Lin

tags: life
19 people liked it

"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."
— Amy Tan

tags: life
352 people liked it

"...but better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

tags: life
540 people liked it

"If everything is important, then nothing is."
— Lencioni, Patrick M. (and many others)

tags: life
4 people liked it

"Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.
"
— Heath L. Buckmaster (Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale)

tags: education, growth, life, realization, self
80 people liked it

"As I grow to understand life less and less,
I learn to love it more and more.
"
— Jules Renard

tags: life
9 people liked it

"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action."
— Benjamin Disraeli

tags: life
3 people liked it

"Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are."
— Markus Zusak (I Am the Messenger)

tags: beauty, life
941 people liked it

"CALVIN:
Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor?

When you think about it, it's weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We laugh at nonsense. We like it. We think it's funny.

Don't you think it's odd that we appreciate absurdity? Why would we develop that way? How does it benefit us?

HOBBES:
I suppose if we couldn't laugh at the things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life."
— Bill Watterson

tags: humor, life
224 people liked it

"Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud..."
— Yann Martel (Life of Pi)

tags: life
46 people liked it

"may you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live"
— annonomys

tags: life
9 people liked it

"He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe."
— Paulo Coelho (The Valkyries)

tags: life, love, relationships
28 people liked it

"Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always
find it."
— Brian Tracy

tags: life, wisdom
19 people liked it

"Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."
— Brian Tracy

tags: life, wisdom
12 people liked it

"Reality continues to ruin my life."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
2,594 people liked it

"Life is a long lesson in humility."
— James M. Barrie

tags: humility, insightful, life
28 people liked it

"All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

tags: dust, faith, life, pixie, trust
131 people liked it

"Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them."
— Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time)

tags: life, math
26 people liked it

"People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."
— Helen Keller

tags: life, thinking
25 people liked it

"Invitation
If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hope-er a pray-er, a magic bean buy-er
If you’re a pretender come sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in!
"
— shel silverstien*

tags: life, magic, poem
19 people liked it

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