Life Quotes - Page 181

One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the nature of vile men. Yet we cannot live in dread of them. We cannot hide behind these high walls, our hearts trembling. For that is not life. We must accept the needs and the duties of each day, and face them one at a time.

If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.

Surround yourself with people who put a smile on your face and make you laugh.

Don’t just practice religion, abide by the principles of Christ

Why crawl like a caterpillar when you have the wings to be a butterfly?

Do as I do, not as I say -- observance often tells me more.

It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

Such a little difference in Susie's ways and ideas would make them all so happy; such a little change in Peter's habits would make his wife's life radiant. But they all lived blindly, on, each day a day of emptiness, each of those precious days, so crowded with opportunities, and possibilities, and unheeded blessings, and presently life would be behind them, and their chances gone for ever.

Common sense is a tool that isn't in everyone's shed.

Deliberately feed your subconscious mind by acquiring quality input through the conscious and sensory mind. You need to be aware of your need to be successful in life or any of its endeavours. You need to be aware of your potential and possess the strong desire to succeed. Success is possible and you deserve to succeed.

The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness not to stop your progress.

Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.

Explore the infinite possibilities in existence.

Be a slave of your potential and not a slave of circumstances

Purposely decide what you want to do.

Seems like everything lead up to this dayand it's just like every day that's ever been.Sun goin' up and then the sunit goin' down.

Be the sun in someone’s dark sky.

We ought to compliment and not to compete with one another.

For every spirit who is learning: you heal yourself.

There are some who believe that the mind is a blank tablet, on which experience is writ until the page be full, and the cryptic world is known; but I see rather that my own life hath been one long forgetting, the erasure of what was drawn, a terrible redaction; til all that remains is blank white and comfortless.I know not what we have been; I know not what we are; but I know what we might be.And so I light out for the unknown regions.

Time should be seen and assessed in seconds, minutes, hours and days

Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it...

Besides, men aren’t worth your time anyway, Letti. If we women spent as much time on ourselves as we do fretting over men, we’d be invincible! Work on yourself because at the end of the day, you’re the only person you can trust.

The weak fall, but the strong shall rise up as a phoenix else we will be no more than a pile of ash.

Oh, Youth may listen patiently,While sad Experience tells her tale,But Doubt sits smiling in his eye,For ardent Hope will still prevail!He hears how feeble Pleasure dies,By guilt destroyed, and pain and woe;He turns to Hope—and she replies,“Believe it not-it is not so!

Understand that by giving something a name, you own it. I find that by naming it, you give yourself a sense of purpose. Like wanting to become a doctor or lawyer or writer for instance, don’t hide in the shadows and wait for it to happen, because the chances of it spontaneously happening are next to none, trust me. You actually have to put yourself out there and commit to it by giving it a name. And you achieve this by simply saying, I WILL become a ‘this’ or ‘that’ or whatever it is that you want. Because you see, if you own it, nothing anyone can say or do will be able to take it away from you; because YOU gave it a name and thus, it belongs to you.

I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry--poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs--is how the world works. The world isn't logical, it's a song.

If you, therefore, must be numbered among the great, you too must run for your life.

Strange satisfaction of organizing pencil crayons and sharpening them (the way I used to enjoy sharpening wax crayons as a kid

Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is at the same time more complete,more poetical , than that of a bark floating isolated on the sea during the obscurity of the night, in the silence of immensity and under the eye of Heaven? Now this solitude was peopled with this thoughts, the night lighted by his illusions, and the silence animated by his anticipations.

perturbed to put trust on people nowadays, people changes partner as per necessity. :(

Your calling is in your difference and uniqueness

Joblessness releases you from the world system

Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

The strongest people are people who faced the toughest situations in life. People who are defeated by the toughest battles are stronger than those who have won by using the escape route!

Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life?

Remember that often we will not know the small details of our life mission

A few years ago, a taxi driver told me about a club & a dog. A waiter taught me a lesson about ladders today. Life is full of class sessions for those who have passion & listen.

The river of emotions will almost always over-run the barrage of logic.

Sometimes, you don't get what you want the most... At other times, you're just lucky.

You would free yourself from so much stress and drama if you just understood and embraced the truth that you are enough.

Ask the Creator to direct your path.

Do you know what it means to be a survivor? It means that not only do you have to live through things, you have to live with them as well. The second part is much harder and sometimes it takes the rest of your life to learn how to do it. But at least you have the rest of your life…

You must practice the discipline of a champion before you win the actual contest. The appointment and opportunity must then come to confirm what you have already become.

Your problems will keep coming and going. It is in your interest to deal with them with equanimity and focus on finding happiness in whatever you do. Be the kind of person who says about problems—this too shall pass, and about happiness—it is my constant companion.

Past is past... no it's not! People are always fond of saying that, but what's past is never past; not entirely.

I hate when I'm not done with my cup but my mom decides to put it in the dishwasher anyway and the cup isn't dishwasher safe. I keep telling my mom that my origami coffee mugs are hand wash ONLY. Handshakes are also hand wash only.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.

Happiness is a perception of what you have, not what you should have.

You're only as good as your next thought of yourself.

We must intentionally push ourselves out of our comfort zones if we are to make any significant progress on this side of life.

You are a special and unique person, who has never lived before and who will never live in the future

Life is not steady, you'll be happy at times, sad at time's, all we have to do is be patient, for a moment of happiness is worth a thousand moments of sadness and dread.

You only become truly rich the day you possess something that money cannot buy.

Don't wait for things to happen by luck, cause its an uncertain thing anyway.

Any time that is spent or wasted is a life wasted or spent.

Our privileges are the things not within our own control that push us forward and move us ahead from that starting line. Acknowledging them does not mean you are admitting to doing something to contribute to someone's else oppression. It means that you recognize that some part of your identity puts you in a better position than others.

You are capable of great deeds.