Life Quotes - Page 136

Don’t climb a mountain to look down on people below, but to get a clearer view of the stars above.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

With some stories, you really can't rush things. And it's often best just to sit back and enjoy the journey for what it is.

How strange the feelings when it was not your name anymore that appeared as that person's favorite.

We are all a whole bunch of accidental products.

We were created to be productive

I never fall in love because love is always inside me.

There's difference between being dead and dying. We're all dying. Some of us die for ninety years, and some of us die for nineteen. But each morning everyone on this planet wakes up one day closer to their death. Everyone. So living and dying are actually different words for the same thing, if you think about it.

The past is your teacher. The present is your opportunity. The future is your reward.

The biggest life change any man would ever experience was the ending of it.

If you can't get everyone on your side, make sure they're right behind you.

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

Katika dunia ya leo ambapo mamilioni ya watu hutegemea utandawazi kupata pesa, kuwa na imani kwamba kupokea pesa kutoka kwa mtu usiyemjua au mtu mwenye nia mbaya na wewe ni kikwazo kikubwa cha maendeleo kwa sababu, karibu kila mtu unayekutana naye ni Shetani. Shetani ni mtu yoyote mwenye nia mbaya na wewe. Hivyo, kama uliwahi kuambiwa kwamba kupokea pesa kutoka kwa mtu usiyemjua ni kitu kibaya futa imani hiyo. Utaachaje kupokea pesa kutoka kwa mtu usiyemjua wakati kila siku unamwomba Mungu akusaidie, na Mungu hutenda kazi zake pale tunapojisahau? La sivyo hutapata pesa unayotamani kupata katika maisha yako, na kamwe hutawaamini watu. Zaka huondoa laana ya mapato. Toa zaka kununua pepo uliyopewa na Mungu.

With the power of solitude, you can actually take up a decision to invent anything.

The smallest issues can become the most important things in life and reality slips away.

Let them see you cry. Let them see you sweat. Let them see you bleed. Those three drops make you human. Never fear to show your humanity. It’s the bravest act of all.

I’d love to be tried out,’ I said, with a suggestive smile. ‘One should always explore something, before one goes in deeper.’I saw a little flicker of fun in his eyes.

You don't need a reason to add value to somebody's life. Nor do you need to get anything back from them. You add value because it's who you are.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Be the gardener of gratitude to grow flowers of happiness in your garden.

Life without Ethan was something worse than a nightmare.It was real.So real that I refused to believe it.

I have no regrets. Everything that happens to me was divinely ordered.

When one matures in life is when one knows we never grow up

But, then, the truest perceptions of life, for me at least, have always proved to be the most elusive and the most shortlived

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure.

If God gives you a seed, He expects you to plant it;if He plants it for you, He expects you to water it; if He waters it for you, He expects you to prune it; if He prunes and keeps it for you, He expects you to harvest it; if He harvest it for you, He expects you to store it; if He stores it for you,He expects you to keep it safe from getting rotten and if He keeps it from getting rotten for you, He expects you to account for the seed.Yes!Life is all about purposefully fulfilling a purpose. We are expected to be doing something at each moment in our life or we live without purposefully living.

A job shouldn’t be a mean of existence but rather, a means of sustenance

You’ve said life is a series of choices, but I think it’s also a series of opportunities, a series of lessons, a series of moments all strung together that loops around into a lifetime—it’s a lifetime of moments. Every decision, every person that has entered my life, has shaped who I am today.

How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.

In order to be able to fulfill mission, mission, you need to understand the unique gift incorporated within you

Future belongs to those who live with hopes and dreams, act on those dreams and hopes until those are a reality.

Fear could drive one to violence as quickly as anger could.

The resolute look on life closes plenty of doors.

... but as with so may diagnoses it is, in the end, the symptoms that matter, not the cause, because this is what being alive means, this is what being a person means, to be sickened by an illness known as you.

My heart is a blooming rose of self-love.

The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother.

Paint your life and sketch your way

The genesis of life, unfold before us, the mere essence of our being……tarnished.Mankind can no longer survive on its own.

In life one of Midnight’s favourite movies had been It’s a Wonderful Life, a touching story where a man called George Bailey is shown how poor the world would have been if he’d never existed, but now the young ghost of Midnight Merlot was sat imagining himself not as the kind hero of his own narrative, but, - but as the anti-George.

A basic reality of life is that we all struggle. We hurt and have hurt other people. We all feel lost sometimes. This isn’t all we are, but it is a part of who we are. The only question I have when I’m with someone is, “Can they admit it? And will they let me admit it too?

I wonder sometimes if I'm not, after all, a piece in some other player's game, following blindly his grand designs without ever knowing that my path along the board is only a feint, while the important matters are played out elsewhere by other men. But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: To see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost. When a life spins out as joyfully as mine has done, then the price, one paid so painfully, is now recalled in gladness. I have received full value. Here among the shepherds, my cup is filled with the water of life; it overflows.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

It is finished.

When instinct speaks, listen to it. It might be the next push you need to reach greater heights.

The good life as I conceive it is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Spirituality is the greatest soul food.

...no moment cares, and the ones you wish could stretch out like a hammock for you to lie in, well, those moments leave the quickest and take everything good with them, little burglars, those moments, those hours, those days you loved the most.

Happiness & Sadness are two contemporary stages in life. A wise man overcomes sadness with his wisdom, and a foolish man faces it with tears.

I live for sex. I celebrate it, and relish the electricity of it, with every fibre of my being. I can see no better reason for being alive.

Go outside, wherever you are, and appreciate each drop of water, each flower, each architectural work of art.

All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.

Don’t limit yourself, discover new areas of expertise

Take control of your emotions before your emotions take control of you.

Life,perhaps less a document than an impression,conveyed through partial glances,stream-of-consciousness juxtapositions,unpredictable rhythms, a collage of sound,a conscientious diarist,a career of blackmail and scandal culminated in murder,a blind man with a will of iron and a nervous system of gossamer.

I’m a fake fact factory. The things I make are the things I make up. Also, as a side business, I make love. Actually, I just made that up.

I was tired of being me.

It is good to be jealous, if only of yourself. For what you feel you lack, you will show an abundance.

The thing about negotiations, not to mention the manipulation, is you can't go too far in any direction. Refusing once is good, twice is usually okay but a third is risky. You never know when the third person will stop playing and you end up with nothing.

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.