Life Lesson Quotes - Page 16

If you are angry for one second, it leaves you with only fifty-nine seconds of happiness.

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

A tree does not despair when a few of its leaves fall off because there is more room for greener ones to take their place.

In Life, What Would Be Best For You, You Know It Best....

The fastest way to end an argument with your wife is to admit she’s right.

Go for it because for all those moments that you would make up your mind the other might have already rushed for it.

If you rule the air, you are great; the waters, you are extraordinary; the lands, you are remarkable; but if you rule over yourself, you are remarkable.

If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing.

The Story Is Always ThereSometimes you don't need to speak to someone to know how they are feeling. You don't need to ask what is their story - often people have it written on their faces and you just have to take the time out to read it.

Though love may be blind, it sees much;though it may be deaf, it hears much;though it may be mute, it says much;and though it may be lame, it does much.

Ignore your haters. Resist your fears. Embrace your dreams.

Planting a flower in the desert takes greater skill than growing a garden in a rain forest.

As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious.

Is this not the reason I write, to leave a piece of me behind?

The soul is a great magician; transforming thoughts into reality, desires into actions, and life into experiences.

If you can think higher thoughts, you can do higher deeds.

It doesn't matter what has happened to you, it matters what you do with what has happened to you. Life is like a poker game. You don't get to choose the cards you are dealt, but it's entirely up to you how to play the hand.

The sun does not rise abruptly, but perseveres until it rules the sky.

One who fishes in shallow waters limits the kind of fish he can catch.

Even in silence a heart can scream.

We are always looking for beauty and forget that it is residing inside of our own hearts.

A bird does not give up flying today because it couldn't find any worms yesterday.

What will undo any boundary is the awareness that it is our vision, and not what we are viewing, that is limited.

A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed.

There was a time when I do not understand poetry.

An intelligent man only argues with his wife when she has lost her voice.

If you want to be strong, exercise; if you want to be wise, study; if you want to be happy, smile; and if you want to be invincible, love.

The dogs left with us and we walked. I sobbed the whole way home, still heartbroken. My mom had no time for my whining.“Why are you crying?!”“Because Fufi loves another boy.”“So? Why would that hurt you? It didn’t cost you anything. Fufi’s here. She still loves you. She’s still your dog. So get over it.”Fufi was my first heartbreak. No one has ever betrayed me more than Fufi. It was a valuable lesson to me. The hard thing was understanding that Fufi wasn’t cheating on me with another boy. She was merely living her life to the fullest. Until I knew that she was going out on her own during the day, her other relationship hadn’t affected me at all. Fufi had no malicious intent.I believed that Fufi was my dog, but of course that wasn’t true. Fufi was a dog. I was a boy. We got along well. She happened to live in my house. That experience shaped what I’ve felt about relationships for the rest of my life: You do not own the thing that you love. I was lucky to learn that lesson at such a young age. I have so many friends who still, as adults, wrestle with feelings of betrayal. They’ll come to me angry and crying and talking about how they’ve been cheated on and lied to, and I feel for them. I understand what they’re going through. I sit with them and buy them a drink and I say, “Friend, let me tell you the story of Fufi.

Never allow yourself to be defined by your past; ‘yesterday’ is just a word, not a dictionary.

We all need something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.

If the road to your dreams is full of potholes, take the highway.

See the flower, how generously it distributes perfume and honey. When it's work is done, it falls away quietly. Try to be like the flower, unassuming despite all it's qualities.

Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.

An Oak tree is a daily reminder that great things often have small beginnings.

There are thousands of languages around the world, but love is the most beautiful of them all.

Expand your mind. Nurture your heart. Develop your body. Cultivate your soul.

Eight months in the woods have hardened me, or at least firmed up my beliefs that if a man’s going to fend for himself, then he needs to leave his credit card at home.

Though you are as a drop in the ocean, without you, the universe would be empty.

When people try to pull you down, remember, they had to look up to do so.

A flower does not diminish in beauty, no matter how many weeds envy it.

The garden of your dreams is watered by the sweat of excellence.

Till the time you realize your conquest you already reach that stage when you start losing the grip.

It's to have people see her instead of her condition. That's all that anybody with a disability wants. Don't sum up the person based on what you see, or what you don't understand; get to know them.

Practicing what you preach is the world’s most eloquent sermon.

You are better than your past, greater than your present, and brighter than your future.

The cheapest thing in your life is money; the most expensive, love.

A tree does not despair when its fruit falls to the ground, because it knows in due time, its seeds will rise.

It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.

I gave up many times but I never quit.

A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not.

As inside of every seed is the power to rise from darkness, inside of everyone is the power to rise from adversity.

Be Gods and make Gods.

Persevere like a seed; even when people try to bury you, flourish.

Just then his state of being was so curious that he was compelled , himself, to see it -- eager, grieving, fantastic, dangerous, crazed and, to the point of death, "comical." It was enough to make a man pray to God to remove this great, bone-breaking burden of selfhood and self-development, give himself, a failure, back to the species for a primitive cure.

The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise.

Be the music of your soul. Don't be a pawn in someone else's game.

If you have no one, you are poor; if you have an acquaintance, you are fortunate; if you have a friend, you are privileged; if you have a lover, you are rich; if you have a soulmate, you are wealthy.

When love invades your life, it captures your heart, imprisons your mind, and frees your soul.

Clearly it's not easy for women in modern society, no matter where they live. We still have to go the extra mile to prove that we are equal to men. we have to work longer hours and make more sacrifices. And we must emotionally protect ourselves from unfair, often vicious attacks made on us via the male members of our family.

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