Life Lessons Quotes - Page 61

It is the worst people in your life that teach you the best lessons.

But the fantasy kingdom and trappings of success soon lost their luster, as I discovered that the most prestigious and remunerative of my resume's way stations was also the most tedious and unfulfilling I had ever experienced. This paradox only made me more morose about modernity. Why was I going to watch my hairline recede in front of two-thousand-line spreadsheets staring at me from cold, glowing monitors? Why was everyone in my office apparently so happy to be spending so many hours there, when the things they really cared about - people, pets, pastimes - were all relegated to a few photographs on their desks? That seemed to be the formula: spend the best years of your life in an office with photos of what you really care about.

When you love people, you are curious about who they are, what they think, and how they feel. You watch them closely, wondering about their experience and what you can do to make it more enjoyable. You feel compassion for their pain and seek to make it more bearable. You are eager to learn the unique language of their existence. You want to understand them, inspire them, heal them. What if you could look at yourself this way?

Sometimes we want God to use us to do big things when we would not even want to do the basics.

But everyone knows someone who has died, I said. Why is it so hard to think about dying?'Because,' Morrie continued, 'most of us walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.'And facing death changes all that?'Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently.'He sighed. 'Learn how to die, and you learn how to live.

There is no way to clearly capture or sum up life...when fully lived.

I never heard sound and thrill of my painful heart until that very day she touched it.

Happiness is, when it comes to the understanding of its meaning, to sometimes be unhappy.

In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself.

A person can choose to stand against adversity, but most people will run from it before they come to terms with who they truly are, a wise person watches through adversity and follows the signs when it is their turn to stand.

...and the break would never come as long as fear can turn to wrath.

You have All it takes to be Great, See the unseen, Give the Good in your hand now to Activate that Great Grace for Greatness.

We have a lot of opportunities in life but we don't know how to gain it. Even sadness is an another opportunity to face a new beginning of our life. We need to be sad to know the value of happiness.

Awaken the divinity of a sacred self.

If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don't want to cry anymore, you don't listen to that song anymore. But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.

We do not know what happens when we sleep.

My friedns, if we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of 'I could have, I should have.' We can sleep in a storm. "And when it's time, our good-byes will be complete.

I replay the scene again and again, the broken mashed-up face looming over me, the knowledge between the two of us that I'd done it. That act of kindness is still more unfathomable to me than any cruelty.

You don't have to be where you find yourself to be.

You haven't rewarded evil unto them who were at peace with you; nor you have delivered them that without cause is your enemy. But they want to tread down your soul upon the earth, and lay your honour in the dust.

Desires are our way and Peace is God's Way

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.

When there is nothing left to love for, it's easy to die for something.

The greater the fruit a tree bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it.

I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

With time we learn that the things we're better off without have the ability to lead us somewhere better than we were before.

Don't You Get it? This very second you could be doing something you love and dream about doing. So do it! Now!

Every day I wake up is a day I’ve fought for. Every mistake, every laugh, every tear, and every sunrise; I’ve earned through the years of abuse and pain. I carry those memories with me as a reminder of who I am and what’s truly worth fighting for. And if you aren’t able to see that, I’m afraid your soul searching talents are highly suspect.

Those who have assets must withdraw them from the markets of loans. Do not accept notes of loan on speculation. The time will soon come when you will gain no profits from the market of loans, and your wealth will be taken by the very few.

When we are unable to shine that natural light within, it burns us from our very core.

Every man has two educations – that which is given to him, and the other, that which he gives to himself. Of the tow kinds, the latter is by far the most valuable. Indeed all that is most worthy in a man, he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that, that constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught, seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Master, go on, and I will follow theeTo the last gasp with truth and loyalty.

Keep Patience, it is happening for you, somewhere.

Goal Of LIFE Is patience,Goal Of Patience Is LIFE!

In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is the quality of your life and the nature of your soul.

For every God-given goal, He gives grace to accomplish it.

As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh at your jokes and invite you to their parties, but they do not like you. They like your power, they like what you will become someday.

When you speak and your words fall on deaf ears, know that the universe listens.

But the amazing thing about life, I've finally discovered, is that you really don't learn from past mistakes. You do logically, reasonably, but emotionally not for a second.

The deeds and motive of man define his personality.

What are you hiding? Is it something from others, or from yourself. Find your truth. The more you show up, the more you'll be found.

You don't always get to know what happened, or why things happened a certain way, but it always, always, goes deeper than any one thing.

The right path in life will always come with patience. It’s when we reach an understanding that everything happens in God’s time that we walk the right path.

Striving for successful goals will have a tendency at times to be discouraging, thankless, and mentally draining. You are entitled to these feelings, however you are not entitled to give up.

Knowledge offers you strength. Wisdom promises you influence. Understanding assures you wealth. Love guarantees you power.

If life is unfair with everyone, doesn’t that make life fair

I believe that the best leadership is loud authenticity. That is what the world needs now. We don’t need more plastic, Photoshooped perfection. I don’t want people to look at me and wish they could be me. I want people to look at me and see their own potential. I want people to be more accepting of their own failures, imperfections, and struggles because they watch me accept of my own.

True riches belong to those who shun false ones.

Don't let someone get comfortable with disrespecting you.

Here's a good phrase for you to jot down: wherever you are, be there! Be there to absorb it. Take a picture if you can. Take pictures in your mind; let your soul and heart take pictures. Get it, capture it, absorb it. And don't be casual in getting it. Casualness leads to casualties.

There's no such thing as ready, there's only willing.

...and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

Admit it. You can't have everything. You can't do everything. You can't be everywhere. You are not omnipotent, you are mortal.

Look forward, not behind. "Your best days are still out in front of you." Be focus & keep your dreams ALIVE

O Lord, thy will be done in my life as it is written in Heaven in Jesus Name. Amen.

The best way to look back at life fondly is to meet it - and those along your journey - warmly, kindly and mindfully

The act of living is a revolutionary right.

Don't bite off more than you can chew because nobody looks attractive spitting it back out.