Charles de Lint Quotes

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

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.

I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn't change any of them.

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.

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

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.

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.

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

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

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

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

I think of my life as a journey, and I'm still on it.

I like the way my life has taken me.

Sometimes things happen in life, sometimes they don't. Don't get me wrong: I have no regrets - if I could turn the clock back 10 or 20 years, I wouldn't want to fundamentally change the path my life has taken.

Life is our dictionary.

People often ask whether you'd alter anything about your life. I can honestly say I wouldn't change a thing.

I think life is the sum total of your experiences.

I have a whole journey - everybody does in life.

You can never predict what the specific shape of your life is going to be, and you won't really know its general shape until, God willing, you're advanced in years and you have the time and opportunity to look back in a coherent way and see what your life was about.

Your past always leads to who you are.

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

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.