“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
More from Coco Chanel on Life
“A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.”
“My life didn't please me, so I created my life.”
“There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.”
“There is a time for work. And a time for love. That leaves no other time.”
“Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.”
“I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite which I would like.”
“I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.”
“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!”
“You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn...”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive...”
Paulo Coelho
13 quotes“And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone a...”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control....”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”