Life Quotes - Page 318

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.

It’s stupid, but it’s human, and that’s how it is.

The doctor asked me recently how I was feeling within myself, I replied, “absolutely fine doctor, but I’m terribly lonely without myself.

Great journey, great joy.

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Plant the seeds of peace and happiness Water it with true love and kindness Flowers of harmony will grow with hue Birds of peace will sing for all and youWith love and with beauty With passion and with duty Plant the seeds of trust and compassionMake caring and sharing a life's missionHold hand with dreams of greatness Peace will grow with beauty and fragrance.

Don’t live your life in the future without any planned rewards for your effort and sacrifices today.

The more we rehearse the worse we become.

When it's over, I want to say: all my lifeI was a bride married to amazement.I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don't want to wonderif I have made of my life something particular, and real.I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

Be a Force of Good in the World. You can't change everything.

Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works

If we choose to behave differently, we are considered 'Mad' or 'immature

Pray and fast for your ministry, proclaim it and prophesy victory to yourself

Begin to live, love, laugh, kiss, smile, hug…!

We have to figure out a kinder way to connect with each other, and practice at it every day. Make it a think we love to do. One of our favorite things, in fact. Until it becomes our only way of being.

Your voice may not be loud today or be heard today, but make sure you are still standing on your feet.

Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.

An hour later. the moon reflected its light on the Tigris as well. The sun, the moon, and Fatima. What else could I ask for?

Life is Temporary, and in life everything is temporary

a soul is far too large to hide.

It does not matter what your calling is, if you can invest all your time into it, then, greatness will become your reward.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself. More powerfully and persuasively than from the "shalt nots" of the Ten Commandments, I learned the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. A Wrinkle in Time described that evil, that wrong, existing in a different dimension from our own. But I felt that I, too, existed much of the time in a different dimension from everyone else I knew. There was waking, and there was sleeping. And then there were books, a kind of parallel universe in which anything might happen and frequently did, a universe in which I might be a newcomer but was never really a stranger. My real, true world. My perfect island.

Always remember that the tales of another are never as wondrous as your own.

Though there had been moments of beauty in it Mariam knew that life for most part had been unkind to her.But as she walked the final twenty paces,she could not help but wish for more of it.She wished she could see Laila again , wished to hear the clangor of her laugh , to sit with her once more for a pot of chai and leftover halwa under a starlit sky. She mourned that she would never see Aziza grow up , would not see the beautiful young woman that she would oneday become ,would not get to paint her hands with henna and toss noqul candy at her wedding . She would never play with Aziza's children. She would have liked that very much , to be old and play with Aziza's children.Mariam wished for so much in those final moments. Yet as she closed her eyes , it was not regret any longer but a sensation of abundant peace that wshed over her. She thought of her entry into this world , the harami child of a lowly villager , an unintended thing , a pitiable , regrettable accident. A weed , And yet she was leaving the wolrd as a woman who had loved and been loved back.She was leaving it as a friend , a companion , a guardian.A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was no so bad , Mariam thought , that she should die this way. Not so bad.This was a legitimate end to a life of illegitimate beginnings. pg. 360

A human. A bystander. A person who is not you, him or her, just me. Living under this timeless sky; never changing sky. Waiting unknowing for the day I die.

Never allow your life to be dictated by what you can see by sight, be guided by your inner vision.

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of humanity condemned ultimately to perish from cold is not worth troubling about. If you take it to heart it becomes an unendurable tragedy. If you believe in improvement you must weep, for the attained perfection must end in cold, darkness and silence. In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, and knowledge, and even for beauty is only a vain sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of one’s clothes in a community of blind men.

The greatest conquest is the courage to be yourself.

Peace without truth is nothing but an illusion – a deceptive misguidance which generates opportunities and problems to chew the sweet and bitter tastes of evil respectively.

it is so dark now with the sadness ofpeoplethey were tricked, they were taught to expect theultimate when nothing ispromisednow young girls weep alone in small roomsold men angrily swing their canes atvisions asladies comb their hair asants search for survivalhistory surrounds usand our livesslink awayinshame.

If you waste a minute, you have wasted life and if you waste an hour, you have wasted life.

Just as the rain carries positive ions, so does change make you more apt to experience love with an expansive heart.

My heart gladdens, knowing someone think of at Christmas.

The 4 pillars Of the Greatest Religion ever Are Love Trust Character & Brotherhood...

Anyone who falls short of God’s grace, out of rage, can harm many.It our sacred duty to love, motivate and pray for one another, so we will all be under God’s grace.

Just don't waste time trying to change what you can't.

To know a species, look at its fears. To know yourself, look at your fears. Fear in itself is not important, but fear stands there and points you in the direction of things that are important. Don't be afraid of your fears, they're not there to scare you; they're there to let you know that something is worth it.

Life can never be perfect. Don’t let anyone fool you into believing that it will be.

Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.

Remember: Let's look for ways to take care of each other rather than look for ways to take advantage of each other.

Be busy with your free life.

When fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm. Tina, time has come to pull up one’s socks and start relearning and reassessing living. ("Another empty room")

The children are the future, so, let's tell them about tomorrow's hope rather than yesterday's despair.

Gratitude is a miracle of its own recognition. It brings out a sense of appreciation and sincerity of a being.

It’s better to live in hell with the wise than in heaven with the wicked.

Forgive yourself when you fall down because we all fall down.

Your success is determined by the principles upon which you live your life.

Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.

The major purpose of defining and understanding yourself is to be able to come up with an objective strategy to map your success.

Life's a story don't you doubt. Bad times give you something to talk about.

I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

Be where you are, stop over-thinking, and focus on what you are doing.

Sean was young, vibrant, capable. Life hadn't even begun to digest his hope.

How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?

Learn to appreciate the things you have in the life you're living. It is your present.

Be careful how you treat those who you perceive to be below you. The universe has a way of favoring the underdog.

The idea of life is maximizing your time and living and effective life

You are conditioned to believe that if you let go, if you surrender, you will either be a victim of circumstances and not assertive in your own being, or you will be viewed as being lazy, lacking in willpower, and un-motivated.Yet will and power cannot exist alongside one another. Motivation does not come into question when you surrender fully into the present moment. Motivation to do, to take action, to make moves, comes naturally from this surrender.

I always believed that first love would stay in my heart the longest, that it would be reminded through every man I met, through every song and every place I had been too, it hurt like hell to experience my heart crashing into a thousand pieces amongst the floor & the feeling of missing them so bad that my body ached that I spent a lot of time alone wondering if I deserved to be loved the way I love and then I met you & you gently reminded me that I was worthy and in your actions taught me to give love one more chance. So I did and as vulnerable and uncertain it all is, im glad my heart has met someone it wants to open for again.