Life Quotes

"I am going to tell you about my life."

"Let your life lightly dance with everything."

"We should spend less time naming things and more time enjoying them."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

"The attempt to live like automatons, not to feel, not to respond, has cost us an enormous price."

"To survive is not the same as to have lived."

"There are things you discover about yourself by the time you reach my age. By sixty-three, you've learned that some people love you and some don't, and that's just the way it is."

"Every person has their own story to tell."

"Identity is not something we are born with fully formed; it is something we create through our choices and actions."

"We must learn to find meaning not despite suffering, but sometimes through it."

"The search for identity is never truly complete; it is an ongoing process."

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

"Life likes to be lived."

"Take the moment and make it sweet."

"You cannot live by bread alone; you must also have roses."

"In this place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass."

"Life is not about finding yourself; it is about creating yourself."

"Life for me ain't been no crystal stair."

"Life is what you make it, nothing more, nothing less."

"I am not a machine. I am a man with all the complexity of human experience."

"To be alive is to be in constant negotiation with despair."

"I learned that survival is not the same as living."

"To be sensual is to respect the body and to indulge the senses."

"To be human is to carry contradiction within oneself."

"The comfortable people want only waking and sleeping, eating and excreting, working and reproducing."

"Life is too short to be at war with yourself."

"The young do not know what age means and old people forget what youth was."

"Life cannot wait until you are ready."

"A woman who has experienced the depths of life is best fitted to plumb its heights."