Life Quotes - Page 81

Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn well please with it, because the whole damn thing belongs to you.

You never can grow unless you change. So fear the stagnation and embrace the change.

if you can ,gift a relationship to someone rather destroy a relationship to someone .

Faith is not a one-time act. It’s a way of life.

I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God’s existence isn’t important. It’s what we do with what we’ve got that counts.

Your passions don’t have to connect to one another and no one needs to sign off on them. Passion isn’t logical… it’s only the fuel which keeps our souls alive. Let it be that simple.

There are two kinds of people:those who learned to love and those who didn't.

If love is EVERYTHING, you are missing out a whole spectrum of emotions and would want to end life if there is no love!

Catching up with the end result is never final, until it is, upon death.

Read and search for the answers you seek.

Success is a way of life, which progressively expands your joyfulness, happiness, and fulfillment.

Out of all the creatures that roam the earth man is the only one that managed to enslave itself.

maybe we destroy our own lives

The oceans and seas are forces which, if you forget, they will gladly remind you.

I can't imagine a life without a story.

What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.

Being crazy doesn't mean being mentally challenged. Maybe it just means being you...amplified a 100 times over.

Maybe with a little more danger ― but there's more to life than just trying to exist.

It's hard to be content with your life, when you know the world has so much more to offer.

You can't fly if you don't get the courage to grow your wings.

There is this book, Destroy All the Cars. It's about how caring about something deeply can also make you hate the world, because the world can be really disappointing. But don't worry-- it's also funny, too. Because that's how you get through all the disappointment, right? You have to find it all funny.

Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were.

The only candid thing in life is time, nothing else flows seamlessly

To every bad there's a good and to every good there's a bad. And both are pertinent to the lessons of life, and the building of your character or individuality.

If the race isn't over after you have won, then it wasn't your game!

I hope your only rocky road is chocolate.

You don't dwell on what you've lost, you just move on."-Allison

Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today.

You know the good thing with hardships and moving on? -- you'll surely taste the pleasure of getting up and do more. Be better!

The greatest life is to share, to sacrifice and to serve.

Synchronicity, it is like a collaboration with fate. All of that becomes the norm when the EGO (edge God out) is no longer the driving force in your life.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

All women like to think they‟re special. Even the ones that aren‟t.

A bear does not change its nature because it shed its fur.

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

Make correct conclusions from the negative solutions you have experienced

Just because something awful happens to someone else, it doesn't mean the issues in your life should take any less importance.

For my success I am immensely grateful to God, my parents, my family, my friends, my teachers and to the books I read.

When you love, lover is loving you.

Your goal and destination also fill your life with meaning and make it significant

There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the paint that changes its meaning and the hand that creates the story. Every piece begins the same, but in the end they are all uniquely different.

Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.

The day you are born is the day you start dying

The miracle of life is given by One greater than ourselves, but once given, each life is ours to nurture and preserve, to foster, not only for today's world but for a better one to come. There is no purpose more noble than for us to sustain and celebrate life in a turbulent world, and that is what we must do now. We have no higher duty, no greater cause as humans. Life and the preservation of freedom to live it in dignity is what we are on this Earth to do. Everything we work to achieve must seek that end so that some day our prime ministers, our premiers, our presidents, and our general secretaries will talk not of war and peace, but only of peace.

I do understand that they fall when I'm least able to pay attention because poems fall not from a tree, really, but from the richly pollinated boughs of an ordinary life, buzzing, as lives do, with clamor and glory. They are easy to miss but everywhere: poetry just is, whether we revere it or try to put it in prison. It is elementary grace, communicated from one soul to another.

If they succeed, you will not be packed off to some idyllic farm, where you can write bad poetry, we will both be executed.

If I had to wish for something, just one thing, it would be that Hannah would never see Tate the way I did. Never see Tate's beautiful, lush hair turn brittle, her skin sallow, her teeth ruined by anything she could get her hands on that would make her forget. That Hannah would never count how many men there were, or how vile humans can be to one another. That she would never see the moments in my life that were full of neglect, and fear, and revulsion, moments I can never go back to because I know they will slow me down for the rest of my life if I let myself remember them for one moment. Tate, who had kept Hannah alive that night, reading her the story of Jem Finch and Mrs. Dubose. And suddenly I know I have to go. But this time without being chased by the Brigadier, without experiencing the kindness of a postman from Yass, and without taking along a Cadet who will change the way I breath for the rest of my life.

I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared.

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

And then she reminded me: "It's the journey, not the destination, true?""True." I said " A bit hackneyed, but true indeed."She sighed. I smiled.

We have to confront ignorance in our nation.

Getting bullied in school taught me how to be strong, getting judged taught me to be better, failure taught me to be resilient and being made fun of taught me humility.

Don’t celebrate your day because you get everything you want. Celebrate your day because you love and appreciate what you already have – the little things, the big things, the things that have come and gone, but most importantly those things yet to come.

Creativity and intelligence, rather than violence, are the best problem solvers.

If you want the waves to touch you softly, have a walk on the sea coasts; if you want the life to touch you softly, have a walk on the reason’s coasts, because reason is a shield that softens the strokes of life!

Let living know they will die one day. They ought to live wisely.

We are one knot in a great web of being, building out of the vast past and (with luck) continuing billions of years into the future, until the sun dies, the last of its energy reaches Earth, and our local light goes out. The most appropriate response to the world is to realize, with awe, the ferocious mystery of being alive in it. And act accordingly. The worst thing anyone should be able to say about their life is also the greatest thing anyone can say: 'I tried my best.

The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.

One last song. One last turn. One last street. no matter how hard you try to keep hold of a day, it's going to leave you

Seize the day and explore the allure of life.