3,552 Quotes About Life-philosophy

What I have been asking myself for years is: WHY?!Why kill yourself in the gym? Why try to avoid a little bit of a gut? Why feel bad for eating half of a cake? This doesn’t mean that I killed somebody, plus I left the other half of the cake for tomorrow, I didn’t finish all of it!

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why lifeis always like a sketch. No, sketch is not quite the word, because a sketch is an outlineof something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is asketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

I was talking to a friend last night, about pain. She said, "Pain doesn't go away, does it? It just lessens with time." And I said, "I think that the pain can be turned into other things... the pain is like the holes in the ground, but I think that we can turn the holes in the ground into little pools of water we can jump into. It's still a part of us, but, we can change its nature. Hopefully. Sometimes." And I think that just might be true.

I think the uncertainty of our lives is one such commonality that unites us all despite our varied difference.

Every decision ever, to this moment here.

Make a life while you make a living.

Life is not a palindrome, don’t look backwards.

We are narratives. If you want to change your life, edit your story

If you use your life to improve the lives of even five people, that will be the highest fulfillment of your life, no matter how long you live.