Life Lessons Quotes - Page 58

I'm merely dying to be remembered for simply writing about my living memories

Give the People what they want - and they'll get what they deserve.

Life is just like an arrow..To launch it, we have to stretch it back.

Though dead is promised to me, when will I slumber, deep? Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of an hireling? As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as an hireling looks for the reward of his work: So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

In dealing with us, God always starts with our motives. What do you want for the people? What does God wants for his people? What do you want Him to do for you; that's is a starting place.

I don't think that we should waste our time criticizing other people. Self-criticism allows us to be the best version of ourselves.

The spirituality of your soul will lead to your survival in life.

Cheerfulness will help you draw strangers, cleverness will help gain acquaintances, faithfulness will help you keep companions, and kindness will help you multiply friends.

There is strength in every struggle. Struggles create opportunities for you to become stronger, wiser and better. The moment you shift your thinking from "I cannot" to "I must," you will begin to see 'Beyond the Pain' and draw strength from within. Learn to see each obstacle as a stepping stone and watch your life change significantly.

Do not curse the well that quenches your thirst.

The fun part is finding which thoughts, in that crazy beehive of emotion, are the ones that mass produce the honey.

One’s own history can be the greatest educator

How simple it is to acknowledge that all the worry in the world could not control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.

The best self help book I've ever read was, The little Engine that Could.

Success comes only through strong will, determination and effort.

.....And sometimes life sends you places to confirm affirmations..... this journey of mine....

A drop of sense can save you an ocean of tears.

Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie.

When life is foggy, path is unclear and mind is dull, remember your breath. It has the power to give you the peace. It has the power to resolve the unsolved equations of life.

he death of a purposeful person is not the death of purpose

The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.

We are but one of many ideas against a greater imagination.

The inner dimension and the hidden time have already been discovered.

Don't try to reach perfection. Just try to reach an inner and outer realization of self.

The break of a family is the break of society.

It’s like you’re always living in your head. . . . Relax and appreciate your surroundings a little.

Life would not be the same ever again. I would laugh again like a happy man would, seemingly with few worries in the world, yes, for memories fade, even of a deed like the one I had committed. However, the knowledge was there, sad and lingering, and I knew I had lost something.

Life is just a slide. Back and forth between loving and leaving, remembering and forgetting, holding on and letting go.

Emotional intelligence is making a huge mistake, but learning from it, forgiving yourself, and setting new and higher related-standards below which you will never operate.

Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs." - Helen Burns

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.

So many wish for magic so many beg for fame, but if you could manifest anything you want life would be a boring game.

You do not get to choose who you love.

Soon, when all is well, you're going to look back on this period of your life and be so glad that you never gave up.

The high road of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.

Chain of envy linked them, showing each what was lacking in life, but offering also the consolation that happiness was present right next door, in the life of a neighbour, an element of the same society.

Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become. Don't associate with fools, else your ancestors will be insulted. Don't be addicted to wine, else your pocket will be empty. Don't be drunk, else you'll be attacked.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

Run your own race of life, with a single minded vision of purpose.

Sex becomes less and less pleasurable in a relationship over time. Your brain gets habituated to the sensual stimulation from your specific partner as you are exposed to it repeatedly. It doesn’t mean that the love is gone from the relationship. Love still exists beyond the barriers of time, in the form of attachment, which becomes independent of sexual intimacy after the euphoric stage of mad love.

cliche but accurate: Kick a football, then ask it whether it meant to fly. All action demands an equal and opposite reaction. You can't blame an object battered by inertial forces; you can't blame me, bouncing through the pinball machine of life.

...sometimes what you go looking for isn't as important as what you leave behind.

Today I hope to live life. To wake each morning and persevere through the struggles. To understand that there is reason and purpose. I choose to find my path and strive upon it, rising everytime I fall. I choose to keep smiling through the pain, and not be discouraged by others who choose disappointment and despair. I choose to be kind even in the face of animosity. To not become fearful in the presence of hatred. I choose to let go of hurt and forgive. Mend what is broken, I choose to wear my scars, and choose not to be a victim.I choose to stand with truth, my truth, my worth, and stand against all injustice. I choose the life gifted to me, till life is no more.

The key to happiness is......to hide the damn key in a place that only you can access.

Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselves and lead them to their highest potential they don’t even know.

In everyday life, a blessed act of saying ‘hello, a smile, word of encouragement…’ can uplift someone spirit.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Don't buy into a superficial reality. It has an expiration date.

Stay calm and composed even when the things around you appear to be in a state of chaos. Learn to draw on your inner strength to brave all the storms. Stay firm and rock steady and let the disorder around you turn into order. That is your real test. You must not allow anyone or anything to take away your peace of mind or unbalance you. Don’t let even the worst of storms steal your inner peace and calm. You are strong, hold on to your peace.

Don't play with others, or at one day, you will be played by others.

What is life but an ongoing war?

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

Real life isn't purely filled with roses and rainbows.

Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiting, and the key to happiness is finding the one person with whom you share the same internal chronometer.

When someone refuses listening to reason disaster will surely follow.

Either there is evil or you are waiting for the evil to come before you get lost forever.

Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.

The high cost of greatness is better than the low cost of mediocrity.