"life"タグの名言

Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up.

You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

You make the world a better place by making daily improvements to become the best version of yourself.

There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, [...]

People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can't change their minds.

I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin...a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.

Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don't try.

The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out. I don't want it to win.

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.

To live is to war with trolls.

No matter how hard life is, don't lose hope

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you... I think you'll have a hard time finding single happiness, let alone that double portion.

Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous?