Life Quotes - Page 127

What gives meaning to your life is rooted in your definition of the author of life.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

Keep being the author of your own story. Never let anyone else write it for you again.

Why do all this? Because there are people out there who need you, and they will be more than willing to give you what you need so you can give them your best, but if you're busy pursuing everyone, or if you're so drained at the end of the day, you won't be able to be your best and give your best.

Every major accomplishment in a man's life requires a major level of commitment.

Love will find you when you least expect it to. It will come unannounced and find you in an unusual moment on the strangest of days!

I used to worry about tomorrow, but that was before I survived yesterday. Now it's one breath at a time.

Our heart is made by the love, for the love, and with the love.

The world becomes so much larger the smaller you live.

Just be yourself to change everything.

There is nothing you cannot turn into your favor.

No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time

When I look back all is flux, without beginning and flowing towards no end, or none that I shall experience, except as a final full stop. The items of flotsam that I choose to salvage from the general wreckage—and what is a life but a gradual shipwreck?—may take on an aspect of inevitability when I put them on display in their glass showcases, but they are random; representative, perhaps, perhaps compellingly so, but random nonetheless.

Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.

It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.

Marriage is a long-lasting friendship.

Happiness is there when you have great imagination and vision, when you take relentless action and love your creation.

Our destinies depend on the choices we make. Be it wise or stupid.

Success isn’t entirely a numbers game, but numbers play a part.

I looked long and hard for the paper roses! I found the reddest red ribbon, and a little golden card! We were all there together, many of us, in the same place; but I was the only one who found the paper roses, the only one who chose the reddest red ribbon, and the only one who topped off with a golden card. And so I learned that if people are unhappy, it is only because they don't know how to look for the paper roses, they don't see the reddest red ribbon, and they don't like the little golden cards. We are all in the same wrap-shoppe in this life. But we are different. Because some of us are looking for the paper roses, choosing the reddest red ribbon, and picking up the little golden cards.

Anger is very deadly. It leads to intolerance and this causes depression.I have discovered people who are temperamental need help so they can overcome such challenges.Running away from challenges doesn't help but confronting the challenges.In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. If you must learn how to control your anger, you must practice it by being around those who usually provoke you the most.How you respond to their provocation should be rated by you on different occasions, you compare your latest reaction with your past, assess them and think of better ways to improve next time.Overcoming anger and intolerance is very difficult, but it is possible...it is just a gradual process but change is assured.Taking advice is easy but following the instructions is difficult but with time, if one is ready to overcome anger, it will be a thing of the past.Don't give up on yourself!

what you don't know will cost you.

Man craves joy far more than anything else in life, but there is nothing as madly intoxicating as the feeling of joy that comes from the soul.

Our differences are beautiful, yet sometimes connection requires us to focus on our similarities, like the fact that we are all trying, all struggling, all wanting to be seen and to be loved. Perhaps if we start there, with this basic understanding of what it means to be alive, we will grow in our connection to one another and learn to love the beautiful differences that embody our improbable human reality.

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

Embrace life with hopeful attitude.

The college diploma has no more power to hold the knowledge you have gained in college than a piece of tissue paper over a gas jet can hold the gas in the pipe.

There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am.

That is what a well-guarded prayer life can reveal about us, that our trust is not in ourselves but in seeking God's strength for what we do. Prayer is not a substitute for action, but prayer undergirds action with the strength that makes the difference.

Life into death— Life’s other shape, No rupture, Only crossing.

Evidence will terminate any short or long era of an argument.

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

Sometimes the very things that we’re expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are killing our ability to live. And against our blind and frequently raging protests, these are the very things that God let’s die so that we can live.

Life is an expression of the choices we make.

What are you? Do you know? What you are is you're always trying to smooth everything over. What you are is always trying to be moderate. What you are is never telling the truth if you think it's going to hurt somebody's feelings. What you are is you're always compromising. What you are is always complacent. What you are is always trying to find the bright side of things. The one with the manners. The one who abides everything patiently. The one with ultimate decorum. The boy who never breaks the code.

Life is easy if you let it and hard if you make it.

People will try to frustrate you in life. But you have to decide to stay determined.

The purpose of life is to be happy and then spread the fragrance of happiness to enhance the beauty of life.

The most important relationship in your life should be your relationship with yourself.

Sometimes life touches one person with a bouquet and another with a thorn bush, But the first may find a wasp in the flowers, and the second may discover roses among the thorns.

Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')

See the world anew and write down the bones of it.

Home is where the heart is. That's what they always say. But where does home begin,If you have lost your way. Do you turn to family or neighbors you don't know? You heart may wonder far and wide until you learn to grow. You go outside and look around to see what you can seeFrom little birds too big tall trees you realize beauty is free.

Reconsider your life and see how you can make things work for yourself

Embrace the sacredness of existence.

Life is so short. The only person you hurt when you stay angry or hold grudges is you. Forgive everyone, including yourself.

People run around looking for millions of likes in their life and on the social media but do you know what? If you get just one true like from just one who loves you the most, it surpasses all other millions. God loves you the most even without make over.

I don't know anything anymore. Is that normal? Is it normal to notice the enormity of everything and just go blank?

The easiest way to be reborn is to live and feel life everyday

To choose holiness is to reject sin.

Generosity is an act of love.

You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.

You ought to dance.

The biggest of obstacle in life, is not failure. The biggest obstacle, is the fear of failure.

See, you’ve got to understand, son. There’s two types of guys in this world. There’s guys . . . who think they’re in control, and guys like us who live in the moment. Who accept life as it is.

There are always loose ends in real life.

Hope gives happiness.

God knows us more than we know Him.

The only way to get the best out of the diminishing life is to invest it into the fulfilment of your purpose.