Life Quotes - Page 199

But I did go back and soon I realized why. I was in love

Bad things happen, Mathew. We can't see them coming, and there's often nothing we can do to prevent them. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't all live life to its fullest.

If you want to be happy, be wary of focusing on past events and do your best to live in the present.

What you want to see, allow it and let it be.

And though I've lived to be an old man with my very own share of happiness for all the mess I made, I still judge every joyous moment, every victory and revelation against those few seconds of living.

I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.

From time to time, I open a newspaper. Things seem to be proceeding at a dizzying rate. We are dancing not on the edge of a volcano, but on the wooden seat of a latrine, and it seems to me more than a touch rotten. Soon society will go plummeting down and drown in nineteen centuries of shit. There’ll be quite a lot of shouting. (1850)

Life wasn't all fucking sunshine and rainbows. Real life was hard.

If you can’t forget about all the great pains you’ve endured, as many of us can’t, at least take some time to celebrate the fact that you’ve somehow kept going, in spite of it all. And you’ve certainly kept growing, because of it all.

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

As darkness falls and sleep pulls at me, I wonder, not for the first time, about life and death. Both are real and neither would exist without the other. They balance each other, as do night and day. Hot and cold. Summer and winter.Some people struggle with this concept. At times, they even forget all about it. But if you remember just one thing, let it be this: life always balances itself out. For every bad guy out there, there is someone equally good to make things right again.

How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or that by accident, survive or improve by the luck of the draw, with little choice or determination on our part.

As long as you are ready to pay this price for living in the light (knowledge) the darkness (ignorance) becomes a servant to you.

I am the symbol of peace, I am the humanityI am the symbol of goodness I am the communityI am the symbol of changeI am the light in darknessI am the symbol of compassion I am the soul of kindnessI am the symbol of joyful futureI will bring brightnessI am the symbol of unity and harmonyI will bring happiness.

After you die, a rare friend or family member may carry your memory throughout life. Most will forget you. As if you were never here.

Time flows like memories on the shores of the past.

Bitter love is better than sweet hate.

There is nothing wrong with you being tempted, the important thing is that you do not fall for the temptation

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.

Please kiss that girl a million times.

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one could lie at crucial moments.

The only instrument through which time could be converted to yield greatness is the instrumentality of work.

Everything we come across becomes a part of us. It doesn't matter how small or insignificant it is…or how devastating. One story here, one story there, that’s what I see when I look back at my life. An accumulation of everything I went through.

To take this one shot at life and live it with God is to take this one shot and have it reverberate across and around my world as if it were a million shots and more.

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

I know everything's alright but I want proof and the Buddhas and the Virgin Marys are there reminding me of the solemn pledge of faith in this harsh and stupid earth where we rage our so-called lives in a sea of worry, meat for Chicagos of Graves - right this minute my very father and my very brother lie side by side in mud in the North and I'm supposed to be smarter than they are - being quick I am dead.

I am not rich, but I am wealthy and my wealth is my love.

How many beginnings can a story have, Daddy?""As many as you can eat, my lamb. But only one ending. Or maybe it's the other way around: one beginning and a whole Easter basket of endings.""Papa, don't be silly... A story has to start somewhere. And then it has to end somewhere. That's the whole point. That's how it is in real life.""But that's not how it is in real life, Rinny. Real life is all beginnings. Days, weeks, children, journeys, marriages, inventions. Even a murder is the beginning of a criminal. Perhaps even a spree. Everything is prologue. Every story has a stutter. It just keeps starting and starting until you decide to shut the camera off. Half the time you don't even realize that what you're choosing for breakfast is the beginning of a story that won't pan out till you're sixty and staring at the pastry that made you a widower. No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story. Or never even get one so much as half-begun.

Pour Into My Spirit...spread your arms around meconsole me and keep me close -wield your mighty swordto vanquish all my foes...

I don’t know what it means to live.

I'm white and I don't dance, but that doesn't mean I have all the answers.

It was such a feeling of developing your inner self to the people who liked to dig deeper and deeper until you cannot fathom the deepest evil in you.

There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on nut.

Build your life not on the things of today, but on the things of tomorrow

Art is life.

The joy is the journey of Life.

Many people will try to Sell you a Dream, its Your place to let them know you Already have one!

There is a girl.I named her love.She has a father. His name is desire.Her mother has a name,but not always the same. We call her destiny.Love calls her mommy.

Life is precious, and in the grand song of the universe, life is short. There is much to be done.

We are truly defined by what we pass on to the next generation.

Should we try to account for all the gifts of life there would be no time for distress and uneasiness.

Money is necessary in everyone's life. Why? Only because people have decided that it should be. It didn't have to be the way that it has become. If nothing came at the price of money, it wouldn't need to exist.

If you must make your time productive, then begin to view time in its most urgent form; in seconds and in minutes.

If you don’t monitor your life, you will regret it. If you don’t measure your life, you will regret it.

When you believe, incredible things happen. You set divine forces into motion.

You are the Poem I dreamed of writing, the Masterpiece I longed to paint. You are the shining Star I reached for in my ever hopeful quest for life fulfilled. Yes, I am Blessed.

Spring has a secret to tell us: life is for beauty and life is for joy.

If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if people should try to spread evil reports about you, would you tamely submit to all this without flying into a rage?

Life’s experiences will just keep repeating themselves unless you continually add some new experiences to enliven your days.

In a crowd do not lose your individuality, and in your individuality do not lose the crowd.

Be the calm in someone else’s storm.

Someone asked me why does bad thing happen to good people?My answer: because when bad thing happens to bad nobody sees it. When something bad happens to a bad man there is no difference but when it happens to a good person people will know. Satan doesn´t advertise good things because that is not his job. His job is to steal, kill and destroy. The devil doesn´t talk good of good people but good people should always talk of something that is good.

All suffer and none should have to. But why not? If suffering makes life seem more real or more abstract, both circumstances are infinitely more bearable than the disturbing reality of mundane work-to-live-then-die-bored life.

From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive

Make your own luck, and then share it with others.

I heard that I am your biggest disappointment,yet, in my heart, I know and feel that I am the greatest version of myself ever and celebrate myself each and every day

They will notdisappoint you, and you will look upon them morecharitably. Men seek but one thing in life—their pleasure

Our identity as Christians is a purpose-driven life

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.