Life Lessons Quotes - Page 78

If you live life so cautiously as to never fail, you end up failing at life itself.

Rekindle the flame of love in thy heart.

A flower’s beauty is birthed in a seed’s ugly struggles.

Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy.

You will always end up in frustration whenever you try to produce outside your purpose.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, not the mirror.

Love is the only criminal who, after stealing your heart, convinces you to celebrate her.

Our trials are our greatest teachers, mentors and benefactors.

My father told me "Son, there are only two kinds people that can do whatever they want in life. Kings and fools.". So I decided to be a King.

Thoughts can only hurt you with your permission, feelings can only wound you with your consent, experiences can only damage you with your authorization; life can only ruin you with your approval.

Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you.

Sometimes it is our mistakes that make us the best among men in the world. if we listen to the voices of the world, they speak not to degrade us but to encourage us to overcome that which we have been ultimately blessed with... for what more could we lose if we never choose to overcome anything? I tell you that you are dead if you are foolish enough to not try.

I just know about sweat and frustration. And that what I once thought was impossible somehow doesn't always stay that way permanently. One day it's suddenly easy and accessible, and mostly because I've stopped struggling against it. I've just accepted where I am, keep showing up, and then the change just happens.

The treasure of a lifetime lies in the sacredness of the heart.

James looked at the people around his table. He stared at each one of them as though he were looking at a magic-eye puzzle and he could see all of the different pieces and the colours but not beyond what was on the surface, and the more he tried, the depth, the revealing images, were kept away from him.

Run you own race of life with patient.

Those who are made can be unmade.

I'm disappointed in myself. In my life. All my life, everything I tried, I only got halfway there. You try to take advantage of the time you have. That's what they tell you to do. But when you're old, you look back and you see all you did, with all that time, is waste it. All you have is a story of things you never started or couldn't finish. Things you fought with all your heart to build that didn't last or fought with all your heart to get rid of and they're all still around. I'm ashamed of myself.

Daily life is an ongoing adaptation process of imprinting our memory’s storage center with useful data and the ceaseless expurgation of undesirable facts, exfoliation of destructive thoughts, and weeding out annoying emotional quirks that seemingly sprout out of thin air.

Is a dream the ultimate freedom, or the ultimate prison?

Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth, your attitude and your day. Don’t give anyone that much power over your life.

If the grass is greener on the other side, try planting better seeds.

Know who you are, and be it. Know what you want, and go out and get it!

When you are madly in love with someone, even when sanity tries to rescue you, you wrestle it.

Life is one big lesson, you learn as you go.

The gift of the moments and its lessons prepares us for a better tomorrow.

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.

In the grace of the Truth, re-examine all that you have been told.

When you compete, you gain more than you lose, even when you lose.

Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!

Patrick: Is fear rith maith nά drochseasamh.Jessica:And that means what?Patrick: A good run is better than a bad stand.Jessica: Oh. And that means what?Patrick: It means, Jessica, that life is about choices. Sometimes you fight, sometimes you flee, but you never surrender.

This isn't where I intended to be. Killing a person has a funny way of getting your life off-track.

Love is a good medication.

To fail is to not try at all.

Tigers cannot afford to care about what sheep think.

Some people are like thorns. But you have to let them be thorns, because thorns can't turn into petals. The trick is not letting them prick you; never let a thorn prick you!

The Bravest Thing I Ever Did Was Continuing My Life When I Wanted To Die.

Cold feet under a warm blanket, steam over an empty mug--rain splatters on dry window pane--open journals of closed memories... tears of laughter and joy of pain... schmaltz of diametric morning.

A huge part of recovery and life -is slowing down and accepting the unKNOWN. This is how you get to KNOW –yourself.

Virtues untie the knots that life could sometimes bring our way and they glide us through easily.

Those who jump out of airplanes do not love life—they deny it, which, of course, is not done without a certain naughty exhilaration. Like children they relish tugging on the apron of Mother Nature, as long as she doesn’t turn and slap them.

Being Creative is not a hobbie, it's a way of life!

They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor.

I’m sorry,’ I whispered. I didn’t know whether I was sympathizing with her broken heart or apologizing for a family who had had theirs broken, too.

You cannot find replacements for everything. Few things happens only once in your life time. So value everything that you got.

When you put on your thinking cap make sure it’s clean.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

If your greatest wish is to be happy, you are clever; if it is to make others happy, you are virtuous; but if it is to make yourself and others happy, you are wise.

The doom of destruction is the snare of sin.

Who cares about fault? As my dad would say, ‘Blame is like your rear-end and reflection. Seeing either always leaves you looking back.’ I’m more worried about what’s in front of me. And right now . . . the view is all messed up.” ~ Ellia

Regard mistakes as teachers, not judges!

You have purged your way. You are ready to lead sons of men.

Americans are so tightly wound, the way they kill themselves to get ahead. It's no way to live, I tell you.

Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first & admitting their wrongs. If you do. You are not making them better, but you are making them worse on the bad things they do.

We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and use it to hang your troubles.

Life is a solvent. Be someone who dispels or weakens attitudes and situations. Have assets in excess to protect your liabilities. Solving it by shutting away differences in intelligence means you fail at the ultimate test. How we recognize words, how one uses words to communicate, and the ability to receive and contemplate outcomes. This is a feature (as far as we know) unique to our sort of intelligence.

Sometimes animals are more human than men and other times men are more animals than animals

We are a generation of everything temporary, masqueraded as engaged in patterns beyond the point, but relies too much on technology, and yet despite all of that, we no longer feel compulsive to connect with each other, and somehow that’s the reason some friendship doesn’t last, however, we have the sincerity to connect on a regular basis with a virtual audience and socialise on the internet.

I would rather try and fail at something than not try at all. Because if I don't try to do something, I will be filled with wonder on whether or not I could've succeeded, and not soon after that wonder will turn to regret. I refuse to live my life wondering and regretting what could've been. I want to live my life with the satisfaction of knowing I tried no matter if I succeed or fail.