Life Quotes - Page 373

You have chosen to exist, and more than just exist-- you've been chosen to share in the Universal consciousness.

Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're still here.

The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

It is the worst people in your life that teach you the best lessons.

One Sided Love is nothing but we can say its a one way hurt to yourself in any little moment while you see her

I've decided that if I had my life to live over again, I would not only climb more mountains, swim more rivers, and watch more sunsets; I wouldn't only jettison my hot water bottle, raincoat, umbrella, parachute, and raft; I would not only go barefoot earlier in the spring and stay out later in the fall; but I would devote not one more minute to monitoring my spiritual growth. No, not one.

Do not seek success just for the sake of succeeding or for self-gratification. Seek a life of impact and significance.

It is better to lose and gain the love, than win and lose the love.

Speak out off turn and you will surely be put back in line.

when distress comes your way, pause and ponder

Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.

Replace the negative traits of your character by the traits you want to have

Without love, life is unsustainable.

There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions.

Don't care is what I've been trying to say .... but not able to !

Earth's crammed with heaven...But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.

I have always loved being behind the camera. I love how it sets you apart in a crowd, so that you can float at the edges, pausing only occasionally to capture a moment.In its own way it’s easier than writing. As a writer, I have to know people, to talk to them, to barge into silences with a dozen of those little lighthearted quips that lead up to a conversation. And even then, they’re guarded around you. Nobody wants their drunken conversation written down somewhere.Being a photographer is different. People come to you. They smile. They flirt. They make sure you see only their best side. Nobody wants to upset the camera.

...And maybe one day you will wake up as an infant in a completely different universe, and your entire life thus far was just one big dream.

Aligning your values and beliefs to your behaviour, increases your chances of being effective at living a fulfilling life without the stress of guilt-consciousness, internal strife or internal conflict

The road may be rough, the journey may be tough and the experience may be bitter, but they are stepping stones to our future thrones.

If you love someone...feel it, speak it, show it, be it.If you don't feel inspired to show your love in this multidimensional manner...be kind enough to let them go...so they can find someone who will.

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

When you love people, you are curious about who they are, what they think, and how they feel. You watch them closely, wondering about their experience and what you can do to make it more enjoyable. You feel compassion for their pain and seek to make it more bearable. You are eager to learn the unique language of their existence. You want to understand them, inspire them, heal them. What if you could look at yourself this way?

Sometimes we want God to use us to do big things when we would not even want to do the basics.

Life is a gift, so appreciate it. Love is abundant, so share it.Enthusiasm is infectious, so spread it.Kindness is divine, so embody it.Peace is the only way, so embrace it.The earth is your home, so take care of it. Life is for happiness, so enjoy it.

Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.

. You must know the area of your calling. If you do not know, then pray about it

Optimism is a belief and I adapt belief as a way of life.

People are like stars in the night sky, all are not equal, but still, everyone shines.

Guidance counselors always love to say, 'Just think positively,' but that's impossible when you have this thing inside of you, strangling every ounce of happiness you can muster. My body is an efficient happy-though-killing machine.

Your body is a sacred-temple of God.

Some of the most corrupt people that you will meet in life are working in corporate government law enforcement. They make criminals look like amateurs.

Go for the life you dream and desire with boldness but without fear.

- Do you want to know why I followed you into that funeral parlor?- You said you followed me on a whim.- That´s the truth, but there´s more to it. I was parking at the gas station across the street and I saw you get out of your car. I didn´t think much of it until you paused on your way inside the shop. You tilted your head toward the sun and closed your eyes, like a prisoner stepping outside after years of being locked away. It seemed so odd. No one just stops and appreciates life like that, but you did. I could see your smile from across the street and I couldn´t look away. I knew in that moment that I was completely uninterested in pursuing a life in wich I didn´t cross that street and meet you

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

We often try to force the experience we want to have, instead of allowing the experience we were meant to have, and in doing this, we miss out on gaining any new insight or understanding.

And they had no idea that they and many others were automatically pronounced deadly dull solely on that account. Only by the young of course, but then, they would have thought indulgently, young people knew nothing about life. Poor dears, they were always worrying about examinations, or their sex life, or buying some extraordinary clothes, or doing some extraordinary things to their hair to make them more noticeable.

Look forward, in the direction of sunshine.

There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all original, and they were all true, and they were all right. It should have been impossible. Was I supposed to love them all?

Words are my weapons. They might kill or cure the readers, that’s out of my control.

Life is a reality. Live it with all your heart.

You know how when you step on court your coach is like "go go go!"? And all throughout you just keep telling yourself to hit harder and harder and keep at it? You know how much you treasure those five-minute timeouts? You know how good you feel at the end of a session? You know how you're glad you're tired? No pills, no shots, just plain energy. I want to work like that. Whether I have to write ten thousand words or send five hundred emails, brainstorm for hours at a time, I want to have that energy. To keep fighting. To know it's all worth it. Oh, yeah. That's my perfect day.

Passion can’t sustain itselfforever.

Accept life as the greatest gift.

He is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen and it's not about his face, but the life force I can see in him. It's the smile and the pure promise of everything he has to offer. Like he's saying, 'Here I am world, are you ready for so much passion and beauty and goodness and love and every other word that should be in the dictionary under the word life?' Except this boy is dead, and the unnaturalness of it makes me want to pull my hair out with Tate and Narnie and Fitz and Jude's grief all combined. It makes me want to yell at the God that I wish I didn't believe in. For hogging him all to himself. I want to say, 'You greedy God. Give him back. I needed him here.

I should have imagined how ugly life could be without you, how painful without your love and how lonely without your smiles.

Consistency is the difference between game excellence and an excellent game. Successful people do consistently what the others do occasionally.

You may be James the American, or Mary the British, or anything else, but before all that, you are a human.

Today is the best day to change the rest of your life.

Never start your gratitude moment with an unthankful heart or out of necessity. Gratitude must be sincere.

If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one.

Open your eyes to what wonder exists in the world. You have within your the power to create the life you want.

Nobody's innocent... but that doesn't reset the bar on guilt.

There is no way to clearly capture or sum up life...when fully lived.

We girls aren't supposed to fall for the good boys.We are supposed to like a bit of grit in our oyster.That's how you get a pearl, after all.

When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calender that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from the chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

There are things we do automatically, our body, acting on its own, avoids inconvenience whenever possible, that is why we sleep on the eve of battle or execution, and why ultimately we die when we can no longer bear the harsh light of existence.

A child is never the author of his own history.

Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.

The products your life must have could be in the form of an improved character and virtue.