Life Quotes

Life is too short to read a bad book.

But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

My wings of hope unfurl soaring through the broken battlefields of life. On a journey to plant myself and bloom in iridescent rays of reverie.

My view of life is, that it’s next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.

In a final Act of self preservation, I cut you out of my life.

All my life, men have told me I wasn’t pretty enough – even the men I was dating. And I’d be like, ‘Well, why are you with me, then?’ It’s always been men putting me down just like my dad. To this day when someone says I’m cute, I can’t see it. I don’t see it no matter what anybody says.

Every one of us can blame somebody for something that has happened in our lives. But don’t waste your time. What we need most is a steady stream of love flowing among us. Love that quickly forgives, willingly overlooks, and refuses to take offense.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Living life according to your own needs doesn’t make you a selfish person. 

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That’s where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.