Life Quotes - Page 356

What you discover valuable to you can make all the difference in your life.

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.

I pride myself in being a kind, loving, caring and gentle person. But, that does not mean that I am weak or a “push over” and that I can be trampled underneath someone’s feet. No, most certainly not. I set my boundaries and no one, just no one is permitted to cross those lines.

The sad truth is, John and I and the kids only took Route 66 once on our trips to Disneyland. Our family, like the rest of America, succumbed to the lure of faster highways, more direct routes, higher speed limits. We forgot about taking the slow way. It makes you wonder if something inside us knows that our lives are going to pass faster than we could ever realize. So we run around like chickens about to lose our heads. Which makes our little two- or three-week vacations with our families more important than ever... As for the time that elapsed between those vacations, that’s another thing altogether. It seems to have all passed breathlessly, like some extended whisper of days, months, years, decades. (pp.39-40)

Having experimented in both poetry and prose, I can say that the two are such loaded words. But neither are quite as weighted as the word “poet”. I think some people can write poetry their whole lives, and never truly BE a “poet”. Whereas I see poets in the wanderers I encounter, the baristas who serve me, and the truckers I, so, love to talk to.To be a poet in my humble opinion is to be a muse of the human experience. I love that I love the idea, that anything can be poetry, it can’t be defined. It’s a feeling, like punk rock. I’m not one for form or structure. I say if your words are visceral and honest, it’s poetry. If you see the beauty of the world and humanity, and you preach it, you’re a poet.

You can leverage time by using it wisely and purposefully.

In spite of her desire for a contained universe, her life felt scattered, full of many small moments, without great purpose. That is what she thought, though what is most untrustworthy about our natures and self-worth is how we differe in our own realities from the way we are seen by others.

If I get up just one less time than the number of times I’ve been knocked down, I have done one of the most devastating things possible; I have halted my life at that very spot.

A young gratuitous smile; trust and distrust;Promiscuities of bed and board and road; The one assured treasureA life, in recollection, truly possessed.

I came. I saw the enormous possibilities and power of the human mind. It is the biggest plot of fertile land in the world. We just have to find the right see and the right technique of cultivation.

Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out.

The day is ours, and what the day has shown.

We still need to give our best to life even if we do not understand the purpose of our existence on earth.

Take hold of your passing time and convert it into living your dreams. Only then can you truly fulfill the great destiny that you were called to fulfill.

You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.

Soon, when all is well, you're going to look back on this period of your life and be so glad that you never gave up.

The high road of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.

It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.

To love is to finally live.

Every man has a starting capital in life and it is called worth or self-worth.

I never wanted to be a martyr—even for love. I don’t want to die for love. I want to live for it.

When we connect to Creator, our sacred character develops.

Denial couldn't be maintained.

Death paused. YOU HAVE PERHAPS HEARD THE PHRASE, he said, THAT HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE?‘Yes. Yes, of course.’Death nodded. IN TIME, he said, YOU WILL LEARN THAT IT IS WRONG.

Live for a reason. Live with passion.

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

No matter what, if you have the strength of life, it is enough to be thankful.

In the bigger scheme of things, we are two pawns... waiting for life to make its move.#Fatalist

Something about him feels like forever…

You should read something else."Why would he have done that to him?"I don't know," she said.Do you ever feel like Job?"She smiled, a little twinkle in her eyes.Sometimes."But you haven't lost your faith?"No," I knew she hadn't, but I think I was losing mine.Is it because you think you might get better?"No," she said,"its because its the only thing I have left.

A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

I catch sight of Janice. Her eyes are so full of excitement that I half expect her to jump up and down. This is something she'll never forget, I tell myself. As an old lady with all the spirit knocked out of her and nobody believe in she'll remember a happy day in July when a horny young guy strutted his stuff and made her heart beat fast.

I made my name”. What does this mean? It means you developed the traits that are specific to successful people, passion- the ability to stay focus focused and the determination to never, never, never give up

Stop validating your victim mentality. Shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.

Life's unpredictable path and length, should be enough to make you want to take a chance.

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

I look myself in the mirror and see what I am inside. In a glimpse, I find the perfection in the imperfect evidence of the former existence.”Katia M. S.

The truth of life is that almost all that we achieve through pain is the best medicine for us, as most drugs are bitter

The only thing I have to wait for to change my life is my attitude.

The best beauty in the world is the beauty of kindness.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, but I chose neither one. Instead, I set sail in my little boat to watch a sunset from a different view that couldn't be seen from shore. Then I climbed the tallest mountain peak to watch the amber sun through the clouds. Finally, I traveled to the darkest part of the valley to see the last glimmering rays of light through the misty fog. It was every perspective I experienced on my journey that left the leaves trodden black, and that has made all the difference.

Run your own race of life, with a single minded vision of purpose.

Convert your time into value

When everybody contributes a change to what he or she notices, it is then we will change our world.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

The quality of your life depends on how you take control of your time

When we fellowship with people, we fellowship with God

Review and question what you already know or have. In most ball sports and games, you confirm whether you have scored by checking whether the ball has gone into the goal or hit its target. So evaluation of results means that you must look at your goal to see if the ball has hit its target. Look at your educational aspirations or dreams and say “am I on track to meet my 2020 PhD target?

I'm an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It's an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner.

It is what it is.

Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.

Your life goal and mission is to find your gift, become what you have been created to be and with your gift serve mankind, promoting advancement and influencing humanity

. . . I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what you have been, where you flame out on the edge of the spheres, and the sun and moon become eclipsed and the world below is as dead and remote and without interest as if it were glazed with ice.

You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.

Life wants you to know that people are more important than things.

Life is so magnificent! How can I grow old?

These poems are cupsthat I pour my life into.Here, Drink!

Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there.

Sex becomes less and less pleasurable in a relationship over time. Your brain gets habituated to the sensual stimulation from your specific partner as you are exposed to it repeatedly. It doesn’t mean that the love is gone from the relationship. Love still exists beyond the barriers of time, in the form of attachment, which becomes independent of sexual intimacy after the euphoric stage of mad love.