Life Lessons Quotes - Page 45

Your past is your story. Your story is your most powerful asset. Embrace it.

What you think is a seed, what you say is the bud, and what you do is the fruit.

Being kind, being compassionate, being respectful does not make you weak. More often, it's the harder path to take.

If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you.

The most formidable adversary of evil is a persistent man with a loud conscience.

Every human life bears a significant importance to the existence of humanity

You cannot lead an enemy to Heaven, but you can lead a friend even to Hell.

If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size.

Are we living life, or is life living us?

If a woman tells you how terrible she looks, sincerely deny it, even if you agree.

When the spirit is happy, the soul is full of smiles.

If a woman laughs when you hurt her, you ought to cry, for you have lost her; if she cries, you may laugh, for you have a worthy soulmate.

Sometimes careful just isn’t good enough.

Love is a powerful thing. More powerful, even, than money.

To attain power, one must first obtain riches, for almost everything of the world revolves about it.

A life without goals is a bird without wings

Now that I’ve reached the ripe old age of retirement, I feel it my duty to teach you everything I’ve learnt about love, so listen closely. Love is like… That’s as far as I’ve gotten I’m afraid.

Your actions show what you know, and your replies to obstacles give clarity into what you will learn.

And that's what we'll do every day. If you or your friends spray-paint obscenities on our walls, we'll scrub them off, and the people will come. if you break our windows, we'll fix them, and the people will come. If you hurt us, we'll wash off the blood, slap on some bandages and the people will come...any wound you inflict, we'll stitch up. We're not going to stop, no matter what you do. This work is too important. Too many lives are at stake.

who accompany ignorants, lives in misery.

Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning.

Darkness is a prison from which only light escapes.

The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)

Everyone you meet is a part of your journey, but not all of them are meant to stay in your life. Some people are just passing through to bring you gifts; either they're blessings or lessons.

Draw outside the lines! Make the sky purple instead of blue! That's what it looks like to dreamers!

If we as people view everone who's not a part of our group as the monster, and we treat them like the monster - they either become the monster, or we're actually the monster.

No one dies pre-maturely. As is meant, happens naturally

When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say, 'The whole world is mine.' "But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson." What lesson? I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us.

Because you are in the middle of becoming who you will be. It isn't going to be easy. You may need help. So feel free to ask us for it.

Life has a tendency to provide a person with what they need in order to grow. Our beliefs, what we value in life, provide the roadmap for the type of life that we experience. A period of personal unhappiness reveals that our values are misplaced and we are on the wrong path. Unless a person changes their values and ideas, they will continue to experience discontentment.

The greatest virtue is endurance.

An angel who makes you cry is better than a devil who makes you smile.

From all the chaos, confusion, disorder, turmoil and pandemonium around her where things are in total disarray a woman is capable of not only restoring order but also bringing peace as well as harmony. She is brave, competent, accomplished, gifted, capable and blessed. Woman, be proud of yourself.

LIFE LESSONSIf you plant honesty, you will reap trust* If you plant goodness, you will reap friends* If you plant humility, you will reap greatness* If you plant perseverance, you will reap contentment* If you plant consideration, you will reap perspective* If you plant hard work, you will reap success* If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation* If you plant faith in God, you will reap a harvestSo, be careful what you plant now; it will determine what you will reap later.

One of the fascinating things about our lives - and minds - is that tend to spend years wishing and wanting others and the world around to see in us that which we ourselves do not appreciate fully.

This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.

A star that is determined to shine cannot be hidden, not even by darkness.

When I was young, I admired old people.Now that I’m old, I admire wise people.When I was a youth, I admired strong people.Now that I’m old, I admire meek people.When I was an adult, I admired wealthy people.Now that I’m old, I admire happy people.

What good is it if they miss your face but not your mind?

Your worst battle is between what you know and what you feel!

If we never experienced the the valuable lessons from failure, then we would never truly appreciate the pure joy of our success.

Sometimes", said Miss Phillips, "the thing you dread doing the very thing you should do, just so you can stop thinking about it.

In a world full of daisies dare to be a rose.

...if I have learned any one thing over the years, it's that life contains too many variables for us to be absolutely certain about anything. In the last analysis, there is no accounting for the human factor. It is always easier to deal with things than with men, and no one can direct his life entirely as he would choose.

These and other inanimate things she saw and experienced. They were real to her. She knew them. They were the codes and touchstones of the world, capable of translation and possession. She owned the crack that made her stumble; she owned the clumps of dandelions whose white heads, last fall, she had blown away; whose yellow heads, this fall, she peered into. And owning them made her part of the world, and the world a part of her.

Don’t mourn over the past; it has no pity for you. Don’t cry over the present, it has no sympathy for you, and I don’t weep the future, it has no mercy on you.

Consistency in right thinking and right doing is how you stay up in a down world.

My words are my thesis, my actions are my dissertation, and my life is my philosophy.

The truth is precious commodity, not everyone will possess her.

Believe in that One Thing That Sets You Apart: your skill, your idea or just you, yourself ! And, Never Stop Believing.

Today religious nuts outnumber monkey nuts in the world.

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

Just live well. Just live

You ought to live life with great passion.

Let's go old school to impress people. Wear a smile, rather than a branded dress. Crease out our differences with understanding. And, use empathy, care, and patience as accessories. Then, let's make a conversation, not talk. Ah, what a fine world it would be! Fine, pure and minus artifice.

In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from beginning to end, with all possible outcomes of every life woven through the tapestry, there is no chance, only choice, no luck, but only consequences.

To dream is to desire, to desire is to long for, to long for is to want, and to want you must work to attain all you dream of, desire, long for and want.

Fear of being wrong paralyzes people. Get over it! If you're wrong, invent a new narrative and move on." - L. R. W. Lee

Never ever wish to be SUCCESSFUL like SOMEONE else. You don’t know their STORY. You are aware of their STRUGGLE. Behind that make-up, people hide their SCARS and injuries. Behind those expensive sunglasses, they hide their TEARS. And behind that positive outlook and attitude, they hide their FEARS. Be yourself. Write your own story.

Already he knew that to overdo a thing is to destroy it.