3,134 Quotes About Life-and-living

If I got something to say, I’m gonna say it.” … “Ain’t you or any other man going to tell me I can’t.

Good thinking is the diet of a healthy mind and life.

This is just one day of my life but every day to come will depend fractionally upon what I do today. I must live it as vividly as I can bear to do.

As much as is possible, be kind, be graceful...It just might be the determinant of someone else's tipping point

আমি বুঝলাম মা মেয়ের একটাই শাড়ি । দুজনে একসাথে বের হতে পারেনা। জন্মের সময় দাঁই নাড়ির বন্ধন কেটেছে, কিন্তু শাড়ির বন্ধন কাটতে পারেনি।

You see a lady sitting there and she's not doing anything and you tend to forget that of course she wasn't always a little old lady. There's all this colored stuff inside her, it's all inside, bubbling.

Because life is frightening, and it is frightening for a reason, and the reason is that it doesn't matter which branch of a life we get to live, we are always the same rotten tree. I wanted to be many things in my life. All kinds of things. But if your life is rotten, it will be rotten no matter what you do. The damp rots the whole useless thing . . .

But it is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It’s the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people’s worst enemy. We can’t tell if any of those other versions would have been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.

For him I was like the land, something to care for...well, he loved to make things grow. But he resembled the land more than me. He needed constant cultivation, or the fruit turned wild.