Category: Life Quotes

“Taking in the good, whenever and wherever we find it, gives us new eyes for seeing and living.” – Krista Tippett

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” – Henry Miller

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” – James Baldwin

“Those who do not weep, do not see.” – Victor Hugo

“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” – Epictetus

“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.” – Lemony Snicket

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“Everyone behaves badly….Give them a proper chance.” – Ernest Hemingway