Life Quotes - Page 113

You are the owner and controller of the most powerful engine with the potential to win all wars of life—it is your ever changing mind.

Don't hurt other people on the name of respecting your family, they may be wrong sometimes. Learn to listen, understand & respect everyone.

Taking a life, is not worth getting life in prison.

The meaning of life is to die living it.

To set yourself up for success, you need to be real about what you can commit to consistently.

A broken heart is something even I can’t protect you from. I’ve been alone for so long, and believe me, all that does is provide a false sense of security. Being alone doesn’t erase the deep yearning that exists in all of us. We are not solitary creatures. You have to love and open your heart. If not, what is it we are trying to save? When it swallows you whole, remember it means you’ve lived.

When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?

Who are we without our memories?

Dare to dream.Dare to hope. Dare to live.

I meditate; therefore, you live.

Your gift is what you were created to be

We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies.

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

Outer beauty you see with your eyes, but inner beauty you only see with your heart.

The grass remains green only as long as you water it. Similarly, a relationship remains fresh only as long as you nurture it with love.

You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance

I wake abruptly, my breath jagged and heart racing, my mouth stale, and I know immediately that's it. I'm awake. The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.

To realize that we are just a breath away from eternity takes a lot of guts and brain power. So, spend your breath wisely.

Sons, any man who is considered a success in life owes a lot to society. We have been very blessed, my dear sons. We have to show our appreciation to our society for making that possible. A time will come when you will meet other Kamerunians who share the same vision for this land. I am advising you to make them partners in our common goals when that time comes. We shouldn’t shy away from playing a formidable role in financing that political force that shall emerge. We must use our influence to ensure that it succeeds.

Live every single moment of your life, for the one thing that is most precious to you.

Every face of life demands endurance.

In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.

I deem myself as intellectual and analytical as much as I can but still never miss the chance to goof around and joke about anything but I never laugh at nobody. Good humor is about laughing with not about laughing at.

How, and when shall these things come to pass? wherefore are our years few and evil?

The kind of legacy you leave will only reflect the kind of life you lived.

Life has a way of filling up one's time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a blind eye to the things that really matter.

MagicSandra’s seen a leprechaun,Eddie touched a troll,Laurie danced with witches once,Charlie found some goblins gold.Donald heard a mermaid sing,Susy spied an elf,But all the magic I have knownI've had to make myself.

Your are where you desire to live.

Fair mindedness doesn't require a lot of thought, it requires a lot of bravery.

When you face any difficulty, do not panic but pray.

For days and weeks on end one racks one's brains to no avail, and, if asked, one could not say whether one goes on writing purely out of habit, or a craving for admiration, or because one knows not how to do anything other, or out of sheer wonderment, despair or outrage, any more than one could say whether writing renders one more perceptive or more insane. Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life?

There is nothing to me but you. I know it’s pathetic but, oh darling, it’s true.

Live life daringly.

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,Old Time is still a-flying;And this same flower that smiles today,tTomorrow will be dying.

If I were to measure my successes by the mistakes that I have made & only focus on the lessons that were learned along the way, then that in itself overall, would be a positive step in the right direction.

Do not waste your life.

Everyone thinks that they are intelligent even though there is no sign of intelligence.

The best way to effectively use time is to schedule it.

Either give it your all or don't even try!

And gradually it dawned on him, if a dawning can take place in total blackness, that his life has consisted of a run of rehearsals for a play he had failed to take part in. And that what he needed to do from now on, if there was going to be a now on, was abandon his morbid quest for order and treat himself to a little chaos, on the grounds that while order was demonstrably no substitute for happiness, chaos might open the way to it.

A healthy choice for your overall health and well-being is one of a happy and positive disposition.

there are some things better than winning like finishing with pride

If the whole world seems like it's against you, it helps to know that you've still got home. A safe place. It just takes one person—a teacher, a friend, a parent. If I didn't have you and Dad, if you hadn't made it so clear you loved me as much as you did, or if you'd said, 'yeah, why don't you do it, and put yourself out of our misery, just shut up,' I would have killed myself. I really would have. I spent most of those days wishing I were dead anyway, and what always stopped me was the fact that doing so would destroy the lives of the only people who ever cared about me.

Love affords you these three things: smiles, hugs, and kisses. Joy affords you these three things: pleasure, laughter, and good memories.

My mind gets stronger everyday,my heart gets weaker with time.

Prepare yourself well, so you don't have to regret anything .

Only trials can bring you triumph and only obstacles can bring you miracle.

It is unfortunate that many people today cannot realize the need around them.

He has little hope that university, when he gets there next year, will be any different. Like right now, all these pupils taking notes as if their life depended on it. All for what? he wants to shout. To get into the top university, so that you can somehow convince yourself you are better than the great unwashed? So that your parents can convince themselves that they are better parents than the great unwashed? So that Mum and Dad’s fourteen-hour days at the office, paying for a fucking private education you never asked for, wasn’t just a pathetic waste of a life?

You don't have friends in here, you'll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you'll just lose them. They'll get shanked or they'll jump or they'll be taken one night.

Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Truth is beauty

You can be happy with simple life.

Most people are willing to promise you a lot. A few are those who can promise you a little, just as much as they can.

Your purpose on earth is to participate in this human experience and to seize the opportunity within each day to reveal the greatest version of yourself.

Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.

Despite how lonely or broken down you might feel, we need you with us helping to make the world better, kinder and safer, especially for the little girls coming up.

When we do the hard stuff for the first 20 years we will have an easier life for the 60, but if we take it easy for the first 20 then we will live a life of struggle later on.

Love anyone and everyone, don't fear for rejection. Love is an inner perception, there is only love, no place for rejection.