Life Quotes - Page 16

Focus on joy, not on hurt or fear.The earth will dance, peace to share.

Don't DIE byreading BOOKSSomething's out there in the world to bea part of LIFE . . .!

Death makes life precious. Without it nothing would mean anything. Imagine a society without death

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

I have forgotten more of my life than I remember, and with my forgetting I have lost my being.

do not cry , you can focus the light spot with the eyes , the eyes of your heart . smile

There are events in one's life which, no matter how remote, never fade from memory

The irony of life is we always compare our fantasies with reality, rather than accepting the reality as is and transforming it into a paradise....

Self-discovery is the key to knowing what to do with your life.

But it would be like going to Heaven and not finding any of your friends there. Her life would go all beatific and empty in the eyes.

Love doesn’t have to be on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn’t have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn’t have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day.It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt.It just has to be.

Most people have this tendency to make judgments on others based on preconceptions, especially when they are dealing with them for the first time.

Our happiness or misery depends upon our perception, not on the situation.

Everyone is beautiful and talented in their own special way. Some people can sing, dance, play instruments, teach, and more. You may not be in the hall of fame, but you possess the ability to inspire others. Recognize your talents and continue to be creative. Share your beautiful gifts with the world

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

There are many fish in the sea, but never let a good one swim away.

Life is a journey, so go on your way. Be a messenger of peace.

Story to me is life. It’s purpose. We as humans have an the opportunity and obligation to live the most truthful story ever told, unfortunately so few ever live truthfully. They don’t follow their dreams and live lives filled with regrets and “what ifs”. I make it my purpose to pursue the dreams and life that I want. It’s very hard, but at the end of the day, when people read the story of my life, they will say, “He was true to himself”.

No, the safest thing is to become an island. To make your house a citadel against all the garbage and ugliness in the world. How else can you be sure of anything?

It may take some time to figure out, but eventually it'll dawn upon you that there isn't a blueprint for life and that we are actually sketching as we go.

Every moment you lose your temper, you lose a moment of opportunity to love.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much? Have you practis'd so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.

As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed.

You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five.

A star never lets anything dull its sparkle, not even darkness.

I don't talk ill about people I don't know," said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die.

In ancient times people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half.

I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who...prayed..with...unexpiated tears to 'dear,kind God!

I can’t help you, I can only guide you, and you are the one who can help yourself.

One is ejected into the world like a dirty little mummy; the roads are slippery with blood and no one knows why it should be so. Each one is traveling his own way and, though the earth be rotting with good things, there is no time to pluck the fruits; the procession scrambles toward the exit sign, and such a panic is there, such a sweat to escape, that the weak and the helpless are trampled into the mud and their cries are unheard.

My heart is a blooming rose of self-love.

Don't try to hurt anyone, you will not succeed because you can hurt only yourself.

She was like a mermaid enrapturing me the sailor with all her charms!

When you love God for real, you will love His creation

Life can be tough and harsh at times. That's what makes it great. Every day is a celebration of survival.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Donate your blood from your heart to save life. Life will donate you hearts full of love, blood and contentment in return.

I write to express my love for the humanity.

Part of my music is being alone, having that time to shut down all other noises to hear the tune underneath.

Both science and spirituality tell us today that meditation and mindfulness strengthen mental control. The more we feel conscious of, and in control of our thoughts and our emotions, the more empowered we become to take effective action that is most suitable for our health and our life.

The beautiful is always bizarre.

Life is made up of chances to make choices, decisions of what you wish to do; the accumulated result of those choices is what you call your life.

When you're and only child in a family with an only parent, you look at other, bigger families with envy. Mary Alice had a family with a station wagon, a split-level house, and a pool. But then I looked up and saw Mary Alice's toes, as she stood at the edged of the diving board. Her second toe lay on top of her big toe on each foot. I had never seen such a thing. I wondered if Mary Alice's toes would ever prevent her from doing the things she wanted to do in life. "Look, y'all!" she said, forming her perfect body into a perfect swan's dive. I decided then that any time I got frustrated with my overall situation in life, mad or jealous of knee socks or a pink canopy bed in a pink room, I'd take a deep breath and think about Mary Alice's toes. At least I didn't have Mary Alice's toes.

You need to do an inventory of yourself to discover your calling and purpose

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.

I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old.

Sometimes we so unnecessarily believe that the thing we can see is best for us. But, it is only because we are not willing to see beyond it.When a diver gets into sea, he deserves the pearl, not the pebbles. If he satiates himself with the pebbles, due to fear of drowning, someone else will take the pearl.You have gotten into this life. Do not get disheartened with the pebbles, you deserve the pearl.

You shouldn't expect anyone to give you a vision. A vision is not given, it's created, by you.

I wish I worried about my uncle's opinions, and had problems to work out with my mom. Hell, I'd settle for knowing what her voice sounded like." I put a hand on her shoulder. "Trite but true—you don't know what you have until it's gone. People change. The world changes. And sooner or later you lose people you care about. If you don't mind some advice from someone who doesn't know much about families, I can tell you this: Don't take yours for granted. It might feel like all of them will always be there. But they won't.

Don't bring me the stars from the sky,I'm planting sunshine in my backyard.

Once upon a time, there was a world. It had three types of people in it. Those who walked a path of fear. Those who walked a path of faith and those who were lost. There were two realities; one that was visible to the senses and the other visible to the soul. Those on a path of fear, would see all things worldly. Those on a path of faith would feel the beauty. Those who were lost were incapable of neither seeing or feeling.

Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on.

You are the loving child of this universe, she is always eager to help you, your joy is her happiness.

And what's beyond vastness? It shrinks...

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

Higher thoughts lead to a higher life.

Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the ocean, the tremendous wildness of it--and suddenly you forget your split, your schizophrenia; you relax. Or, moving in the Himalayas, seeing the virgin snow on the Himalayan peaks, suddenly a coolness surrounds you and you need not be false because there is no other human being to be false to. You fall together.