Liz Carpenter Quotes

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

You don't get old until you replace dreams with regrets.

I don't think about a legacy; I think about my life, because I've had quite an unpredictable life.

Mortal experiences give us the opportunity to assess what we are doing with our lives.

Your creative life can continue to just turn inside out and evolve in ways that you can't possibly imagine, whether or not you decide to be a parent. It doesn't matter.

Do I regret how my life turned out? Of course not - not for a single second.

I think life is the sum total of your experiences.

I have a whole journey - everybody does in life.

If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.

One can't change one's life experience, but even if I could, I wouldn't change it because of all the wonderful things that have happened to me.

We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.

I think a lot of parents hand people over a blueprint and say, 'This is how you're supposed to do it.' And my parents, I think, kind of drew a picture and said, 'Here's the good stuff in life. How do you get there?'

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

Everybody has their own story; everybody has their own journey.

I advise women to live their life to their fullest, invest in who you want to be and live it well.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.