quotes for teenagers about life

The horse through all its trials has preserved the sweetness of paradise in its blood. ~Johannes Jensen


Nothing is sad on a beautiful morning save to look down and realize you just had the last sip of coffee and the mug sits indifferently empty. ~Terri Guillemets


Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long. ~Susan Scarf Merrell


I walked barefoot - the only way to walk on a muddy road. ~Laurie Gough, "Light on a Moonless Night"


Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important. ~Carl Reiner


What is one man's meat is another man's rank poison. ~Lucretius


Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly. ~Sam Slick (Thomas Chandler Haliburton)


Witticism: a smart saying, notable for its form rather than content.


One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. ~Will Durant


It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ~Baltasar Gracian


Loyd: "It has to do with keeping things in balance. It's like the spirits have made a deal with us. We're on our own. The spirits have been good enough to let us live here and use the utilities, and we're saying: We know how nice you're being. We appreciate the rain, we appreciate the sun, we appreciate the deer we took. Sorry if we messed up anything. You've gone to a lot of trouble, and we'll try to be good guests."


Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854


Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. ~Jim Rohn


The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practised at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness. ~Holbrook Jackson


I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. ~Ed Bluestone


The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species. ~Leonardo da Vinci


When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. ~Anatole France


Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. ~Robert Hutchison, address to the British Medical Association, 1930


When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake. ~From the movie Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk