Life Quotes - Page 162

We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea.

Change in thinking + shift in perspective = change in your life

This cruel age has deflected me,like a river from this course.Strayed from its familiar shores,my changeling life has flowedinto a sister channel.How many spectacles I've missed:the curtain rising without me,and falling too. How many friendsI never had the chance to meet.

There is only one risk and that is not taking one.

Why were we born different? Why do we see the world how it actually is? Because we were meant to change the world, but not live in it.

Life there was hard and it made people hard.

I wished I could paint this ineffable beauty but I had never been artistic. I hadn’t even packed a camera, and my phone was out of charge. It didn’t matter. I just breathed in the feeling, savouring it. Suddenly I knew that I’d enjoy many more moving moments and visions of beauty, and that they’d sustain me for the rest of my life.

Life is absolutely impossible without love.

Once you realize life is magic, you will never look upon the world with dimmed eyes again.

Stand up and let the world hear your roar, now spread your wings and begin to soar.

It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos.What it's going to be, I don't know.Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night.And maybe knowing isn't the point.Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose- and that purpose is to benefit you.

When you give up, you are giving others control of your destiny.When you choose not to give up, you take control of your destiny.

I will never give up on my dreams. I have the patient to wait and work hard for its fulfillment.

Great spirituality, Great soul!

Open your heart to the true wonders that really exist in life.

If you're looking for an excuse to quit you will find it, but if you are looking for the reason to continue you must fight for it.

I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.

You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't beThe familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skinYour head's under water when you learned to swimOn a road to hell, congratulations, you're free...

I live each day with joyful hopes.

Excellence is a way of life.

Begin to lay hold of every minute of your life and convert it into something of value to benefit the world. Never allow any of your time to be wasted on the frivolities of life.

A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol.

Not learning by doing, but learning by risking.

Value-added time produces multiplication and production

Love is a feeling which you can't change but its change you,Beloved is a person whom you can't replace with anyone but you replace your wishes with his or her wishes

At moments when Herman fantasized about a new metaphysics, or even a new religion, he based everything on the attraction of the sexes. In the beginning was lust. The godly, as well as the human, principle is desire. Gravity, light, magnetism, thought may be aspects of the same universal longing. Suffering, emptiness, darkness are nothing more than interruptions of a cosmic orgasm that grows forever in intensity...

We all do have a vision in life and we all wish to achieve something in life. We all ought to note that vision is there for everyone but, achievement is there for someone!

Paint your life with the colors of kindness so that you may find the true bliss of happiness.

Music not only saved my life, it gave me a life

Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair.Even when all doors remain closed, God wil open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that has been denied.

It's all a game. And if you don't want to play, maybe you shouldn't come to Hollywood.

Sow yourself first and foremost in something today

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.

Both believers and unbelievers go through temptations

True Martial Arts is universal, simple and practical. Anything else is too complex to be used in combat.

Master the art of finding something to celebrate about in each moment and life will become an exciting adventure

Life is a sacred breath.

When God created us, He breathed in us the Spirit of Life and put all that we need to make us great on this earth in us

There is a better future, with a greater purpose. We can find it, only when we search for it.

Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart.

If you knew what lies ahead on the path, it would not be an adventure, now would it?

It was clear to me by now that studying Islam was one thing – and absolutely worthwhile, because it helped me grasp the meaning of the religion and how it all fitted together. However, I felt as though I was standing in front of a shop window full of lovely things, and all I could do was admire them from afar. I was still separated from them by the window, or, as Muslims might say, a veil. In order to lift this veil, there was only one way forward: to get down onto the prayer mat and start living according to Islamic principles.

You rob yourself of reaching your maximum potential and the best chance of success when you try to succeed alone.

It's no use talking about the 'Doomsday Clock' when it has already chimed. But, alas, the chimes fell on deaf ears.

Some people like me, some don't. I don't understand, Where the difference comes from. My heart like them all. For a simple childish reason. We all are created equal, we all are humans.

each day's life comes with lot of puzzles, mysteries to unravel; being so conscious of life can make one so unconscious of life

Why don't you like getting close?' Marianne insisted. 'Is it because you might get hurt?' Owen shook his head. He still couldn't look at her. 'It's because it's never permanent. Everything dies. Everything gets destroyed. Even love. So we just make the best of it-get our pleasure where we can.

The greatest universe is not somewhere out there, but inside of yourself.

I wear the words we didn't say. My heart is clothed in them every day.

Be optimistic and don’t ever get discouraged or give up no matter how vain it may seem initially

Loneliness is something that finds us all when we think about it and when we're by ourselves when we don't want to be. It creeps up when we desperately feel like we need someone special but can't seem to find anything more than a friend that wishes they could help. Sometimes a friend cannot be found when your willing to settle for one. Sometimes it passes quickly, and sometimes it sticks around to try to drive us to insanity. Its like a creature lying in wait to take us at our weakest moment, but only toying with us when we give up to it. In the end it always passes. There is always something to appreciate and someone to cheer us up. We adapt and overcome. Life is a gift with much more to it than a passing emotion. All around us are beautiful things to console us. Life is much more than one feeling. It is as great as we let it be.

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain.

Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details.

A person living in everyone else's style reacts only to stimulus

When you start to accept responsibility for the results you get in life, you also take back the power to change your future outcome.

Life's been one tough little shit, but there's a very obvious reason why she hasn't let me get too comfy, settle too long or sink too deep. She knows she has to kick me in the ass sometimes to get me moving on my journey.

Everyone is longing for love, everyone is suffering from the needs and wants, so be loving, kind, and compassionate to everyone.

He has always been the kid who cries too easily and laughs too easily, the kid who begins giggling in church for no reason at all, who blinks hotly in shame and frustration whenever he misses a question in class, living in an otherland of sparkling daydreams and imaginary catastrophes.

No one knows the future, but the present offers clues and hints on its direction.