Inspirational Quotes - Page 390

Your life is your choice, so make it worthwhile

No longer do I sing, dance or draw pictures; but God has granted me the gift to do them all in my stories.

J'aiti

You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.

Margaret Atwood

One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home ... With this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

... one can't live without falling now and again.

Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.

Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us.

The worker faithful to the well has neither the intention, or time, to violate the name and the service of others.

You need to be buried deep in the dirt before you can find your bloom.

Roz Inga

Your spirit lives on in your work. YOU decide what manner of work that will be.

Every little bit of peace I bring someone is worth the peace I never had.

When each one of us become an active and living book of lessons for those who see our examples, the boundaries of religious interpretation will give way to the new era of brotherhood and peace we're waiting for.

I now see my life, not as a slow shaping of achievment to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery of a purpose which I did not know.

In your life, always be like a driver who runs the car not just a car.

There is such dissociation between what the eyes see and what the mind envisions. The final thought is just a matter of interpretation, coloured by our experiences.

In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold.

Benjamin Zander

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees

When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become worse.

We need to get rid of hate, envy, jealousy, discord in ourselves, so we can reach a solution in terms of peace in order to feel that time has come for human happiness.

I teach the world how to treat me by the way I treat myself, and the way I present myself.

Kristine Gasbarre

Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is "what?

LOOK AROUND. GAME DEAD, RIVERS BLACK, LAND CHOKED WITH WEED. SKIES BLEEDING, RED AS BLOOD. FOR WHAT?YOUR KIND ARE BLIND. YOU SEE ONLY THE NOW. NEVER THE WILL BE.BUT SOON YOU WILL. WHEN ALL IS GONE, WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY MONKEY-CHILDREN THAT YOU MURDER FOR A SCRAP OF LAND, A DROP OF CLEAN WATER, THEN YOU WILL SEE.

When the chips are down, you are giventhe chance to find the strength you never knew you had and put it toward the greater good. Or go over to the dark side. You know, if that’s how you roll.

I don’t care if people say that I am staying hungry and foolish.

The past is called the past for a reason. If you are constantly looking behind you, your eyes aren't on the road ahead. You don't drive the car that way, so why should you live your life that way?

Rachel Van Dyken

Well, I agree that 'trial and error' is a pretty pessimistic name for it. And maybe that's what it is most of the time. But I think the point is that it's not just try-error. Most of the time, it's try-error-try.

Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.

We're not making mistakes. We're making experiences.

Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.

Wanda E. Brunstetter

Master, go on, and I will follow theeTo the last gasp with truth and loyalty.

William Shakespeare

The thing about knowing you’re broken is that knowing is not enough to fix it.

You know, I think it's important to keep a balance in things. Yeah, balance, that's the right word. Cause the guy who wants too much risks losing absolutely everything. Of course, the one who wants too little from life, might not get anything at all.

Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike.""What?""He'll understand.

We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.

If experience is the best teacher, there's nothing that comes close to the experience of life.

Michael A. Singer

Big house, big car, big breast, big life, big this and big that; what is so big about living big? Live on KISS principle not BIG principle.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

Just to say 'I believe' or 'I do not doubt' does not mean that you understand and see. To force oneself to see and accept a thing without understanding is political and not spiritual or intellectual.

To protect themselves, the weak focus on the "bad" in people. Conversely, the strong, who fear little, focus on the "good".

Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

Jennifer Donnelly

We may indeed die here, that's true. But we will all die anyway-is there any denying that? When you think of all the possible ways you might go, this is as fine a place as any, isn't it? I mean, to end one's life surrounded by friends, in a comfortable, dry room with plenty to read... that doesn't sound too awful, does it?""What is the advantage of fear, or the benefit of regret, or the bonus of granting misery a foothold even if death is embracing you? My old abbot used to say, 'Life is only precious if you wish it to be.' I look at it like the last bite of a wonderful meal-do you enjoy it, or does the knowledge that there is no more to follow make it so bitter that you would ruin the experience?" The monk looked around, but no one answered him. "If Maribor wishes for me to die, who am I to argue? After all, it is he who gave me life to begin with. Until he decides I am done, each day is a gift granted to me, and it would be wasted if spent poorly. Besides, for me, I've learned that the last bite is often the sweetest.

Michael J. Sullivan

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

Louisa May Alcott

I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior that motivated hers. So it is that we in life determine our own treatment.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime time takes time. The only way to fail at life is to abstain.

Johanna de Silentio

How wonderful it would be if people did all they could for one other without seeking anything in return! One should never remember a kindness done, and never forget a kindness received.

Kentetsu Takamori

Embrace nothing:If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha.If you meet your father, kill your father.Only live your life as it is,Not bound to anything.

Gautama Siddharta

You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.

Student: I don't feel like living anymore. Teacher: If you don't feel like doing something then don't do. This means that in finding many ways how not to live your life, you have the possibility to discover how to live your life.

The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place. The few books she had read and liked had been fairy-story books, and she had read of secret gardens in some of the stories. Sometimes people went to sleep in them for a hundred years, which she had thought must be rather stupid. She had no intention of going to sleep, and, in fact, she was becoming wider awake every day which passed at Misselthwaite.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The problem with thick skin is that it leaves you impervious to the sharpest of pins. Everything becomes dull. But without that sense of pain, there cannot be that sense of relief. Ultimately, the thickened skin leaves you numb, incapable of feeling the highs and lows of life. It leaves you rough like a rock and just as inanimate.

I have nothing but a great head to offer.Is that enough?

We are all capable of so much more than we think, the only thing we need to do is change our beliefs

Steven Aitchison

Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Who you choose to surround yourself with will determine if you fail, or if you will succeed. Assets are people who will support you, build you up, and encourage you. Liabilities are people who will tear you down, discourage you, and give you reasons why you can't do whatever it is you want to do. Minimize the liabilities and you'll go far in life.

Writing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish.What matters is that you enjoy the journey.

For the sake of the aftermath.

Subliminal influence, is the constant drive to the change in consumer choices.

Your belief is the operating system on which your life runs.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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