Half of life is fucking up, the other half is dealing with it.

Henry Rollins

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

Mahatma Gandhi

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

William Faulkner

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.

Zelda Fitzgerald

People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.

George Carlin

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.

Albert Camus

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

Fernando Pessoa

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

W B Yeats

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Ernest Hemingway

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

George Sand

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

Madeleine Albright

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Marcus Aurelius

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

John Lennon

I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.

Maya Angelou

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...

Virginia Woolf

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

Robert F. Kennedy

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Paulo Coelho

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir

Khaled Hosseini

Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil

Eminem

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Will Durant

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

Mahatma Gandhi

To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit.

Maya Angelou

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

Kurt Vonnegut

If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

Madeleine Albright

Work without love is slavery.

Mother Teresa

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.

Amy Sedaris

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Aphra Behn

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight,the weight we carry is love.

Allen Ginsberg

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

W. H. Auden

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Leonard Cohen

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings

David Sedaris

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

Paulo Coelho

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can; all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

Mary Shelley

Burn my Flag and I will shoot you........but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American

Johnny Cash

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

Ken Kesey

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Bertrand Russell

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre

Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Hermann Hesse

I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously -

Audrey Hepburn

A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Milan Kundera

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Malcolm X

There's good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too fucking sad.

Kurt Cobain

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Dorothea Lange

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

Louisa May Alcott

To know nothing is the happiest life.

Desiderius Erasmus

One love, one heart . . . Let’s get together and feel all right

Bob Marley

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

E. B. White

I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.

Henry Van Dyke

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun

Charles Bukowski

A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night

James Patterson

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

P G Wodehouse

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

Ernest Hemingway

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna