Life When Its Tough Quotes

1. "Sometimes Holly seemed like she wasn't paying attention, and other times she was gone when I went looking for her. That was when she went to a part of heaven we didn't share. I missed her then, but it was and odd sort of missing because by then I knew the meaning of forever. I could not have what I wanted most: Mr. Harvey dead and me living. Heaven wasn't perfect. But I came to believe that if I watched closely, and desired, I might change the lives of those I loved on Earth."
Author: Alice Sebold

2. "Don Jaime relied on this to conserve what he defined as serenity: peace of mind and soul, the only fragment of wisdom to which human imperfection could aspire. His whole life lay before him, smooth, broad, and definitive, as untroubled by uncertainty as a river flowing to the sea."
Author: Arturo Pérez Reverte

3. "What does being a girl have to do with it? There's no time to think when you're on the spot..."
Author: Bisco Hatori

4. "I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done."
Author: Boris Johnson

5. "Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating."
Author: Brian Boitano

6. "We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."
Author: Buddha

7. "Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is."
Author: C.S. Lewis

8. "Ladies, don't get the misconception of the story of Ruth and Boaz and think a man is going to come and save you. Remember, Ruth went out to take care of herself and her mother and law and gathered grain from the fields.God brought Boaz to come assist her in her life, not save her. Its a difference. No man can save you, only God can."
Author: Chloe M. Gooden

9. "My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know."
Author: Dakota Fanning

10. "My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people."
Author: Dana Spiotta

11. "It wasn't until I could get out of Stanford that I could sit down and think about my life, to do the things that most kids do, which is to ask who am I, what do I want to be when I grow up. I never got to do Dan Pintauro."
Author: Danny Pintauro

12. "I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting."
Author: David McCallum

13. "[...] he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years."That's the only kind of book I can trust", he said."It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short."
Author: Haruki Murakami

14. "Sorry' is just a word… A word that acquires a little bit of strength when uttered by a heart, which believes in its power, but yours is silent."
Author: Irina Serban

15. "In most cases, verbal prayer alone does not change anything; when actions are branded with prayer, wonderful things happen. Actions alone do not make it as well; they lead to success when guided to labour by answered prayers. Pray and work!"
Author: Israelmore Ayivor

16. "I look into his sorrowless eyes and a door in my heart blows open. And when we kiss, i see that on the other side of that door is sky."
Author: Jandy Nelson

17. "God gave us crying so other folks could see when we needed help, and help us."
Author: Joshilyn Jackson

18. "I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle"
Author: Kanye West

19. "It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role."
Author: Kyra Sedgwick

20. "I am very much out of my element here. There are moments, listening to the conversations going on around me, when I feel I am going to lose my mind. Earlier today, I heard someone say the words, "I felt at one with the divine source of creation." Mary Roach on a conducted tour of Hades. I had to fight the urge to push back my chair and start screaming: STAND BACK! ALL OF YOU! I'VE GOT AN ARTHUR FINDLAY BOX CUTTER! Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to."
Author: Mary Roach

21. "If a quote changes your life in a good way, keep it in your mind and in your heart to give it to someone else too!"
Author: Mehmet Murat Ildan

22. "It may be a tough world, but its a magical world;Where a mere sunset will make you smile....Amidst all the hardships, When the life you want to live seems a strange place,Be the first to chart this new territory;And leave a clear path for others to follow,They will follow.........You do not have to fell the pressure to lead....You merely followed the horizon where the sun set,which became a beautiful sunrise...Your Sunrise....."
Author: Michelle Geaney

23. "As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet."
Author: Mindy Kaling

24. "Marijuana is quite possibly the finest of intoxicants. It has been scientifically proven, for decades, to be much less harmful to the body than alcohol when used on a regular basis (Google "Science")."
Author: Nick Offerman

25. "I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire."
Author: Robin Morgan

26. "Never interrupt me when I'm eating a banana."
Author: Ryan Stiles

27. "This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name. The consciousness that animates us is itself central to this mystery and the ground for any experience we might wish to call 'spiritual.' No myths need be embraced for us to commune with the profundity of our circumstance. No personal God need be worshiped for us to live in awe at the beauty and immensity of creation. No tribal fictions need be rehearsed for us to realize, one fine day, that we do, in fact, love our neighbors, that our happiness is inextricable from their own, and that our interdependence demands that people everywhere be given the opportunity to flourish."
Author: Sam Harris

28. "For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country."
Author: Sela Ward

29. "The Brown Coast""Not long after the affair had run its course, Bob and his wife were driving to town when Vicky looked up and saw the phantom outline of a woman's footprint on the windshield over the glove box. She slipped her sandal off, saw that the print did not match her own, and told Bob that he was no longer welcome in their home."
Author: Wells Tower

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