3,134 Quotes About Life-and-living

This was life as it should be lived—proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man.

You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.

What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.

life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done.

Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others-and I am one of those-never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go.

Maybe Lindsay and I are best friends and we hate each other, both. Maybe I’m only one math class away from being a slut like Anna Cartullo. Maybe I am like her, deep down. Maybe we all are: just one lunch period away from eating alone in the bathroom. I wonder if it’s ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble into each other, heads down, hoping to avoid collision.

Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

Yes, you may have your cake and eat it too. I will only take the rest of the world along with all the other cakes in it, thank you!

I am not designed to come secondor third, I am designedto win.