Life Quotes - Page 118

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

And it all came to pass, all that she had hoped, but it did not fill her with rapture nor carry her away with the power or the fervor she had expected. She had imagined it all different, and had imagined herself different, too. In dreams and poems everything had been, as it were, beyond the sea; the haze of distance had mysteriously veiled all the restless mass of details and had thrown out the large lines in bold relief, while the silence of distance had lent its spirit of enchantment. It had been easy then to feel the beauty; but now that she was in the midst of it all, when every little feature stood out and spoke boldly with the manifold voices of reality, and beauty was shattered as light in a prism, she could not gather the rays together again, could not put the picture back beyond the sea. Despondently she was obliged to admit to herself that she felt poor, surrounded by riches that she could not make her own.

There are many things that have distorted the person inside you from what you were created to be

There is neither a Heaven nor a Hell. Life after Death is an oxymoron. Life is just another word for existence, and Death is just another word for non-existence.

In the morning, a cup of love, kindness and sunshine make my day bright and happy.

Always start your day with positive thoughts and attitude of gratitude.

You’ll only fall if you doubt your balance.

And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing.

Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.

It matters not how long we live but how.

Life is a surprise waiting, every moment we are discovering that surprise.

You want a great life? Well, greatness is on the other side of that f***ing wall... don't just go over it, go through it! What are you waiting for?

If in doubt, cheese has been always the answer..

Be merry, because it confuses your enemies; happy, because it annoys them; cheerful, because it angers them; and joyful, because it kills them.

A black hole holds all the colors of the universe.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

If you got on your knees to give thanks for the undeserved kindness and mercy in your life, you would be shocked by how rich you truly are.

Never compare yourself to others because you are unique and beautiful in your own ways.

You expect certain things to always be there, like the bakery on the corner, or the boy you grew up with. But when the very ground can eat you alive without warning, what's to say the ocean won't dry up? Or the stars won't suddenly shut off? Nothing is forever.

Just becauseyou feel lostdoesn't meanthat you are.Sometimes youjust have to relax,breathe deep,and trust the pathyou're on.

It’s weird like, you can see the cruelest part of the world. The cruelest part. But then on the other side you see the most beautiful part, do you know? And it’s like you go from one extreme to the next and they’re both worth it, because you wouldn’t see one without the other. But that cruel part, is damn cruel and you’ll never forget it. But that heaven…is heaven.

You cannot receive God when you block people from your life

Many a time, we live life without having access to the thoughts of how the hours of yesterday were spent. This comes to play because of lack of self-analysis and does not help in any way to create the excellence we claim to pursue.

People change. Sometimes I think they don't know they're changing until it's already happened, though. You get so used to being one person, it's weird when you wake up and everything is different.

Take that your accidental self and build it into your ideal self.

When someone received immortal love, their life becomes eternal.

Life is too damn short to not tell someone how you feel. Don't let someone because you're afraid or you'll lose them forever.

Life is this simple ~ birth, eat, drink, play, explore, and relate to family and friends; be happy and enjoy life…!

We grow not through the words we read or the lessons we see, but through the love we feel & and the paths we lead.

What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.

You have to embrace the idea of imperfection, even in the thing that is most perfect for you.

Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness.

Your bread may be small but with God’s blessing it will increase

I had a dream about you last night... I was a brick and you were a blanket. Damn that improbability drive.

The real lessons is the reality of living life.

When hunting a lion it is wise to remind yourself that you too are being hunted.

Because we feel ourselves to be separate from the world in which we live, we have also grown to feel quite alone in this world. Our sense of loneliness and isolation not only makes us feel depressed and miserable, but it also causes us to be anxious and afraid of the world and everyone in it. Because of this inherent fear, we put up all kinds of barriers to protect us from the world—barriers that we have created to keep us safe, but that really end up making us feel more alone, more miserable, and more afraid, as they prevent us from being our natural selves.

Greatness like every other product is bought with the currency of time

It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships.

I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.

It were better that we were not at all, than that we should live still in wickedness, and to suffer, and not to know wherefore.

We shall never meet, but there is something I want you to know. My time is not the same as your time. Our times are not the same. And do you know what that means? That means that time does not exist. Do you want me to repeat that? There is no time. There is a life and a death. There are people and animals. Our thoughts exist. And the world. The universe, too. But there is no time. You might as well take it easy. Do you feel better now? I feel better. This is going to work out. Have a nice day.

If you’re not smiling at yourself in the mirror, you probably need to check that the life you’re building is aligned to the life you dreamed for yourself. And if you’re not dreaming, you need to start dreaming.

You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

The light of God extinguishes the darkness.

Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby.

You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Attachment and Expectations are the two biggest killer elements of happiness in everyone's life.Learn the art to monitor and control these killers to bring happiness back in your LIFE!!!

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

If you permit God to test you at the beginning, you will stand every trial for a long time. Don't plan to drive a Mercedes jeep as a boy and ride a bicycle in your adult age. Every trial given to you while you are young is made to prepare you for your old, age so that you can proclaim; I was young and now I am old, I have never seen the righteousness forsaken nor their children begging for bread.

Some people, no matter how easy the path they are given on the walk of life, will find a way to mess it all up. Ray Levine was one of those people.

Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough to survive it.

How you see the world may not be how others view it.

It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress, but collective knowledge of the society and market demands.

Find a voice in a whisper.

Protect your garden. Some come as weeds disguised as flowers.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.