Life Lessons Quotes - Page 92

What You were Once, Was Also Because You Were Someone Else Before that

To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to.

I learned you can't always count on your life plans to go your way. Sometimes some higher power somewhere has a bigger picture. Puts you where you didn't expect to be. To learn what you need to learn. Life sometimes doesn't run in the cycles it's expected to. We are all here for a blink. Life changes in a blink. We fall in love sometimes, in a blink.

Live in the present. Tomorrow is a puzzle you can only solve with the answers you find today.

When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it.

Pray for faith, hope for peace, strive for unity, and persevere for harmony.

Life is temporal.Time is fleeting.God is permanent.Eternity is enduring.

Nothing - not prestige, power or pride - is worth sacrificing the things that you truly want, the things that you truly love. "Don't be afraid to take time and smell the roses. Don't hesitate in seeking out those things you hold dear. Seeking them out and holding on to them. And don't ever cease standing up for what you believe in, and fighting for those things that you want. Life is too short. Do what makes you happy, regardless of how others might feel.

Divinity exists in all creations.

Our heads are full of comparisons, needs for approval and attention, a desire to be at other places, imagining things could be better there and thus hating our reality.We are the only ones to blame for our own suffering.We hurt ourselves every time we think of how other people should behave according to our standards and then suffer when they appear to be individuals; every time we open a book with so many expectations about it from what we’ve heard and hoped it to be, and then close it in disappointment, realizing it’s something totally different (maybe beautiful, inspiring and challenging, but nothing that met our expectations).

I wonder that if you keep growing and changing like you're supposed to, if you always end up embarrassed about how stupid you used to be. Every year I realize how dumb I was the year before.

People of great faith are almost always lacking in reason, while people possessed of great reason often suffer from a pitiful lack of faith. So it always happens that people of great faith can move the world but cannot steer it, while people possessed of great reason excel at steering the world but are hopeless at moving it

Five Ups of life: Buckle up, Start up, Keep it up, Don’t give up, Cheer up.

It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams.

The basis of your life is absolute freedom, the goal is joy, and the result of that perfect combination is motion forward, or growth. Your goal is to find objects of attention that let your cork raise.

That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the "New York Slide": you offer your words to try to communicate and connect with someone, but your words just hit a brick wall the person has erected to ward off human contact- the words slide down it and roll away.

No matter what, we have to keep moving forward, even if we have to crawl.

If your actions don't excite, motivate or inspire others to do better, you're doing it wrong.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody it saves so much trouble

I walk to rid myself of the terror of cancer, and to overcome the fear of it coming back. The fear may never completely fade, but actively engaging life – whatever that may involve – reminds me of the joy each day can bring.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

Every action you take, leads to a consequence you face. Choose wisely!

Life is a rich literature.

It's as if they've planned out my life for me and I'm expected to live it for them. I hate it. So I don't tell anyone much. It's easier that way." ~Dani O'Meara from the forthcoming amateur sleuth mystery, Dangerous Days for Dani

Can't Live with you and I Cannot Live without you

Each generation must discover its own mission or drown into the well of oblivion

Most people have to get to a point where they don't have a choice before they'll change something.

Reading leads to knowledge and wise ways of living.

Even the most artistic of imaginings can sometimes seem callow in the face of truth. That which appears may not be and that which lies hidden may just be the stark, naked face of reality.

A rough diamond is still worth more than a polished pebble.

God always wants us to see things from heaven's prospective. You may not be doing much to your community but what you are is so important. You are significant.

If seeds waited for perfect conditions to grow, there would be no plants in the desert.

Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.

Sometimes the worst-tasting crap is the best for you.

Words are life. We are our words. Choose your words carefully.

We hurt so much because we have lost a part of ourselves. If we have loved much, we must have given much also, and when everything's over, we feel as though we have lost everything.

She understood that Simon was a disappointed man if he needed, at ths age, to tell her he had pitied her for years.

Life is great.Life is amazing.Observe the beauty in everything you do.

This life is not perfect, live it to the full, it's all we have

We acquire insightful lessons of life in moments of failure than success.

Gladness comes from God.

Our simple daily decisions can become our best friend or our worst enemy. They can draw us towards our goals or send us orbiting into a galaxy far, far away. These are the days of our lives. We are offered choices every day; sickness or health, poverty or wealth, happiness or misery, knowledge or ignorance, to jump or to wait, to grow or to die, faith or doubt, for better or worse. Everything in your life exists because you made a series of decisions. Each decision, positive or negative, starts a behavior that over time becomes a habit. It is the little things that we put off doing that cumulatively make an enormous difference–in the end results.

Be silent & you are considered on idiot. Be voluble & you are considered a nuisance. The perfect balance between speaking and remaining silent makes you a gentleman!

Tears can ruin the handiwork of the best beautician.

The hopelessness of life is like a weak fire, that can only be extinguished using the fire extinguisher called hope.

Moving on is not like a birthday, you can’t count down the hours ‘til it arrives and you can’t mark it on a calendar and you can’t call up your friends to help you celebrate. You can’t plan for it and you can’t conclude it by blowing out a candle. When moving on happens there will be no announcements, no notifications, no congratulations. There will be no parade; only you will know.

Life operates exactly like the Star Wars prequels. It’s boring, bloated, painful when it shouldn’t be, and lacks a cohesive storyline. And ultimately, it only exists to boost the ego of its creator.

In as much time as it takes to smoke a cigarette, a person's life was changed forever.

One day you're going to look back and wonder why you wasted so much time worrying about things that never mattered much.

We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.

Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever.

Everything is in the root. If you pick the weed without getting the root out of the soil, be assured, it is going to grow back.

You may follow the footstepsThe whole day will passWith you going around in circlesYet not reaching anywhere at last!

If you care too much about a person you will loose your importance in his life

We all die. Not all of us live.

Whatever GOD creates, GOD sustains.

BLESSINGS ARE IMMEASURABLEYou canLose a childOr a parent,The love of your life,A good job,A game,A deal,A bet,An idea,Your favorite thing,Money,Your best friend,A moment,An opportunity,A chance,Your keys,Your mind,Your health,Your identity,Your virginity,Your religion,Your shirt,Your license,ID or Passport,Phone or phone number,Hope,Faith,Luck,Your pride,Or your house,And feel likeYou've lost everything,And keep on losing.StopCounting lossesAnd start counting your blessings.Only then,Will you discover that lossesAre easier to point outAnd countThan blessings,And that blessingsOutnumber your lossesFor they are trulyImmeasurable.It is only normal thatPeople count losses withTheir minds,And ignoreTo count blessingsWith the graciousnessOf their hearts.

Challenges often require that we suffer or endure over an extended period of time —thus Challenges develop patience.

Until we get it right, we shall return to the earth-school time after time.

Enthusiasm is the elixir of life.