Life Quotes - Page 270

Just dabbing pieces of my heart into things that make me shine, my little young simple life.

If you really one to become great, you must practice the rule of ten thousand hours.

Don't complain if your're facing hard moments in life. Challenge yourself to face it, challenge yourself to beat it.

Life does wait, if only for a limited time.

Death, I've dreamed of it, I've desired it, but what real happiness can come from it?

When you stand on top of that mountain and you look out, you will know that you will never again look back.

2There is no greater thing in life than that secret sense of harmony that unites us briefly with the great mysteries of others and allows us to travel alongside them for part of the way.

Success isn’t entirely a numbers game, but numbers play a part.

Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed.

Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids—not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us.

Paul says that our troubles are “light.” Granted I may not see them as light in the midst of trauma, but looking back on them, they may seem light. He also says they are “momentary.” They only last for a short time.

Life is a journey worth making.

Happiness and unhappiness are contagious.

Wisdom is having things right in your lifeand knowing why.

A broken heart is something even I can’t protect you from. I’ve been alone for so long, and believe me, all that does is provide a false sense of security. Being alone doesn’t erase the deep yearning that exists in all of us. We are not solitary creatures. You have to love and open your heart. If not, what is it we are trying to save? When it swallows you whole, remember it means you’ve lived.

Life will never be the same again. Life will be better.

If you stand right at the edge of the night sky, some place where one o’clock leaves to meet two, the breeze will carry your words up to the stars. And they’ll swallow your secrets until its time to hand them over to the truths in the sky- the ones that draw maps in the black. They carve their answers into the backs of my hands, the grooves of the words running deep in my palms.

Waiting for anyone is a cause for a tremendously bad life ahead. When the electricity is gone and you wait for it, that is considered as artadhyan (mournful meditation). Twenty years worth of effort gets washed away in waiting for half an hour. In such situations, you simply have to take an adjustment.

The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are.

Mind-power takes you to the mountaintop. Heart-power takes you the stars. Soul-power takes you to the edge of the universe.

The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.

Don't wait for a reason to feel the joy. Life is for joy.

Life is for a specific mission. Find your role and fulfill it.

who would expect less?" she said. " You're a Wiggin." " Whatever that means." He said. " It means that you are going to make a difference in the world.

A 20/20 mindset produces clarity, joy, and peace in your life. It produces RESULTS.

One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything.

He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.

Give me a meaningful love or a beautiful death!

Cannot put a finger on what precedes the other, bachelor/spinsterhood or self-obsession.

It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.

Never disregard people, regardless of their beliefs, because we all carry God’s likeness

Life is an illusion. Don’t forget to enjoy the magnificence of magic.

I'm proud to be a work in progress.

Those who are happy will make many souls happy.

The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied.

It was shameless how life made fun of one; it was a joke, a cause for weeping! Either one lived and let one's senses play, drank full at the primitive mother's breast—which brought great bliss but was no protection against death; then one lived like a mushroom in the forest, colorful today and rotten tomorrow. Or else one put up a defense, imprisoned oneself for work and tried to build a monument to the fleeting passage of life—then one renounced life, was nothing but a tool; one enlisted in the service of that which endured, but one dried up in the process and lost one's freedom, scope, lust for life...Ach, life made sense only if one achieved both, only if it was not split by this brittle alternative! To create, without sacrificing one's senses for it. To live, without renouncing the mobility of creating. Was that impossible?

Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out.

For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.

We fail to enjoy the sacred moment, when we overwork.

Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.

Without even knowing, humanity actually worships not an Entity, rather a mental state.

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.

The joy of writing is the fullness of existence.

You were born to dream. You were born to strive. You were born to conquer. You were born to rise.

War never can bring peace; only understanding, love, kindness and compassion can do that.

Embrace each other with joyful smiles and sacred kiss.

Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.

I could feel it--inside, and I decided that night, reading poetry beneath a caged light bulb, that real was when you could fee your whole body light up from within.

Life Begins at the end of your comfort zone.

Time is not rigid” It is destructible. It melts away before you know it.

fire is beautifuland we know that if we gettoo close it will kill usbut what does that matterit is better to be happy for a momentand be burned up with beautythan to live a long timeand be bored all the while

Write as though your life depended on it.

Look at this leaf. When you’re standing close to it you can see every single detail of the leaf. You may think that it’s important to see things, like this leaf, up close but that is an incorrect notion because it is also important to view things from afar. That’s why it is necessary to look at all perspectives of an issue or of an object. --The Unnamed Samurai (Chapter 5)

God writes love and speaks poetry.

There exist words of mediocrity, songs of mediocrity, and life lessons of mediocrity. Advice of mediocrity, books of mediocrity and companions of mediocrity are also available.One may also meet songs of purpose that can make us ponder to wonder and advice filled with authority to dare in life. We may also hear life lessons that can challenge and change us. What do you listen to? If what you listen to will not make you, it will mar you.

What is happening is something new in my life. I think many people have a sense of shape, of unfolding, in their lives. This sense makes it possible for them to say: Yes, this new person is important to me: he, or she, is the beginning of something I must live through. Or: This emotion, which I have not felt before, is not the alien I believed it to be. It will now be part of me and I must deal with it.It is easy now, looking back over my life to say: That Anna, in that time, was such and such a person. And then, five years later, she was such and such. A year, two years, five years of a certain kind of being can be rolled up and tucked away, or ‘named’ — yes, during that time I was like that. Well now I am in the middle of such a period, and when it is over I shall glance back at it casually and say: Yes, that’s what I was.

My eyes were glued on lifeand they were full of tears.

You can choose better relationships, better jobs, better places to live, better uses of your time and better ways of treating yourself.

Our lives are a constellation of events, strung together, glittering; the shapes only being seen from a distance.

A bad dream can ruin your night, but a dream not chased can ruin your life.