Life's Ups and Downs Quotes

Our path is sometimes rough and sometimes smooth; nonetheless, life is a constant journey... whatever we do is regarded as our journey, our path. That path consists of opening oneself to the road, opening oneself to the steps we are about to take.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.

It's life, man, and life is never easy.

You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.

When I was doing 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' I was asked, 'If there was one part of your life that you could erase, what would it be?' And I was so stunned by that. I thought: 'Nothing.' I would keep all the good bits and the bad bits, because those things made me who I am.

Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear.

Lately, they were always reassuring each other that nothing was wrong; and probably it was true—life wasn’t supposed to be incredible, after all. Life wasn’t some incredible movie. Life was all the movies, ever, happening at once. There were good ones, bad ones, some went straight to video.

You don't wake up one morning and say, 'Today is going to be a comedy day.' And the next day, 'Today's going to be a drama day.' Things happen in life that are fun and light, and things happen that are heavier. You just have to move your way through life, and I think 'BoJack' is a good reflection of that.

Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!

You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

You've got to have as many good times as bad, or it all becomes too painful and too much work.

There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life.

I have lived a life of many shades and am very thankful to God for what he has given me and not given me.

Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug.

The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.

Life is a journey for us all. We all face trials. We all have ups and downs. All of us are human. But we are also the masters of our fate. We are the ones who decide how we are going to react to life.

I think everything in life comes in threes: heartbreak and all that. You've got to do the full round in order to learn.

I have my own unique road that has had many exciting ups and heart-breaking downs, but one thing I know is that my journey is not over and the best is yet to come.

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they are all a line or a paragraph in our own life manuscript. Two thirds of the way through, even, and it all won't necessarily make sense, but at the end there'll be a beautiful whole, where every sentence of every chapter fits.

Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I'll get you back someday.