Tag: Life wisdom

Quotes July 13, 2018

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Frederick Douglass,
orator, writer and abolitionist
 
 
 
 
Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring.
Herman Melville,
writer
 
 
 
 
“Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.”
Stephenie Meyer
 
 
 
 
“How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you’ll soon discover what you’re like.”
Goethe
 
 
 
 
“Being happy never goes out of style.”
Lily Pulitzer
 
 
 
 
“Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is right now.”
Roy T. Bennett
 
 
 
 
“The first recipe for happiness is to avoid lengthy meditation on the past.”
Andre Maurois
 
 
 
 
“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”
Carol Burnett
 
 
 
 
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
Jim Rohn
 
 
 
 
“The ability to apologize sincerely and express regret for the unskillful things we say or do is an art. A true apology can relieve a great deal of suffering in the other person.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
“People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you will know exactly what to do.”
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
“I used to dislike being sensitive. I thought it made me weak. But take away that single trait, and you take away the very essence of who I am. You take away my conscience, my ability to empathize, my intuition, my creativity, my deep appreciation of the little things, my vivid inner life, my keen awareness of others pain and my passion for it all.
Unknown

Quotes July 01, 2018

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
Marie Curie
 
 
 
 
“I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.”
Frank Herbert
 
 
 
 
Start over; my darling.
Be brave enough to find the life you want and courageous enough to chase it.
Then start over and love yourself the way you were always meant to be.
Madalyn Beck
 
 
 
 
Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you.
@iHearts143Quotes Instagram
 
 
 
 
When you’re up in life, your friends get to know who you are. When you’re down in life, you get to know who your friends are.
LifeAdvancer.com
 
 
 
 
You’re too divine to put up with a lover who hesitates in their love for you. You’re too divine to be an afterthought, and not a priority.
Iambrillyant
 
 
 
 
Because, little dreamer, there is more truth in imagination than there is in “real life”.
Erin Van Vuren
 
 
 
 
We waste so many days waiting for the weekend. So many nights wanting morning. Our lust for future comfort is the biggest thief of life.
Joshua Glenn Clark
 
 
 
 
There’s something wrong with your character if opportunity controls your loyalty.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
Like a child be happy for no reason.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
Excuses will always be there for you, opportunity won’t.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
If you find yourself constantly trying to prove your worth to someone, you have already forgotten your value.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
Life is the most difficult exam.
Many people fail because they try to copy others, not realizing that everyone has a different question paper.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes May 31, 2018

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.
Robert Southey
 
 
 
 
“Embrace the energy of ease.”
Latham Thomas
 
 
 
 
“When I am afraid to speak is when I speak.
That is when it is most important.”
Nayyirah Waheed
 
 
 
 
If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed,
but that my eyes be opened wider.
JULES RENARD
 
 
 
 
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
PEMA CHODRON
 
 
 
 
Avoid drama. Walk away in silence from anything that doesn’t improve your life. Calmness amongst chaos is a sign of emotional maturity.”
Vex King
 
 
 
 
“Communities are not built of friends, or of groups with similar styles and tastes, or even of people who like and understand each other. They are built of people who feel they are part of something that is bigger than themselves: a shared goal or enterprise, like righting a wrong, or building a road, or raising children, or living honorably, or worshipping a god. To build community requires only the ability to see value in others, to look at them and see a potential partner in one’s enterprise.”
Suzanne Goldsmith
 
 
 
 
“It is not lies or a lack of loyalty that ends a relationship. It is the agonizing truth that one person feels in their heart on a daily basis. It is realizing that you are coping and not living. It is the false belief that there is a verse, quote, phrase or talk that will magically make you feel content, complete or not care. However, it doesn’t last longer than a few days, before your mind and heart goes back to what it wants. It is the moment you realize that you left without ever leaving. It is the moment you realize that fear, shame or guilt is the only thing standing in the way of the life God meant for you to live.”
Shannon L. Alder
 
 
 
 
“Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware. The cosmic banana peel is suddenly going to appear underfoot to make sure you don’t take it all too seriously, that you don’t fill up on junk food.”
Anne Lamott
 
 
 
 
“In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he’s tired. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to run.”
Seth Godin
 
 
 
 
“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”
Stephen Hawking
 
 
 
 
Everything is bonkers.
Marc Johns
 
 
 
 
Remember
“No is a complete sentence.”
Unknown

Quotes April 12, 2018

If you make decisions based upon people’s reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.
Heath Ledger
 
 
 
 
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
Jane Goodall,
primatologist and anthropologist
 
 
 
 
I looked in Temples, Churches and Mosques. I found the Divine within my heart.
shchedrina
 
 
 
 
No one can defeat stupidity, nor the stupid one himself.
Kostas Shinas
 
 
 
 
It’s a lot harder to hate someone in person than to judge behind the wall of social media.
Brené Brown,
Researcher and Author
 
 
 
 
Good or great leadership is rooted in a deep sense of personal accountability.
Vince Molinaro,
Author and Advisor
 
 
 
 
“Self-love, self-respect, self-worth: There’s a reason they all start with ‘self.’ You can’t find them in anyone else.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
You are the author of your own story. What happens to you in this life is all up to you. It is NOT what happens to you, but how you react that will decide your destiny. So even when not-so-good things are happening, you can smile, you can laugh, and you can find the treasure in your trial.
You only get ONE life. No one knows how long it will be. Enjoy every day and don’t let this one get away.  There are no do-overs in this journey we call life.
Life Hack
 
 
 
 

It’s not caring that drives exhaustion. It’s caring while being unable to help.
Adam Grant

Quotes March 15, 2018