Life Lessons Quotes - Page 10

But that’s the way life is; felicity and expiation play together in the narrow lanes of life like bosom friends, inseparable. You find one, and the other is always around the corner.

You'd corner me in your conformity but even in dormancy i'm sleeping with enormity, stretching the belly of the earth & everything i was born to be.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

I am a world of uncertainties disguised as a girl.

When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Though no one can backtrack and create a brand new start, Everyone is capable of taking their life in a brand new direction.

It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.

Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well.

If I have one piece of advice to give you all about what to search for in your quest for What Next, it's to find where the line blurs between hard work and happiness for you. To find that thing where working hard at it makes you happy, and where you're happy to work hard at it.

I've never had a moment when I thought: "Tom, you've made it!", and I don't think I want to, because that feels like you've reached the end; that you've crossed the finish line. But to me there is no end. An achievement is not a finish line; it's a checkpoint on a far greater journey. It's a moment to pause, to take a breath and look back and enjoy what you've experienced and be grateful for it, but then to turn around and look towards the next checkpoint, the next achievement.

How to win in life:1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow5 don't let people tell you it cant be done6 make no excuses

[Poem: Slates of Grey]Sullen faces like slates of grey—What I’d seen on a walk today.Bodies rushing bodies boltingTime for life a disregarding.Money to make and to grow oldWhat about the hands to hold?Deadlines, projects, people to meetWhat about our own two feet.Sullen faces like slates of grey...What I’d see most anyday.

A day in a storm strengthens you more than a thousand in sunshine.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is in vain to hide a fruitful seed in fertile soil.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The struggles of the past are the gateway to the blessings of the future.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The storm is the optimist’s friend, but the pessimist’s nightmare.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Be the calm in someone else’s storm.

Matshona Dhliwayo

When we allow negative messages to fester in our head, they take on a life of their own.

Don’t set your own goals by what other people make important.

Life is good! It is only our thoughts, choices and actions towards the situations we meet in life each moment of time that makes life look bad! The same bad situation in life that makes one person think badly inspires another to do a noble thing! The same good situation in life that makes one person feel so good to get into a bad situation inspires another person to create another good situation because of the good situation. It is all about thoughts, choices and actions! Life is good! Live it well!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Planting a flower in the desert takes greater skill than growing a garden in a rain forest.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Use your mind’s talents diligently, your heart’s powers incredibly, and your soul’s genius profitably.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Worry soils, even the purest mind.Envy poisons, even the purest heart.Greed sullies, even the purest soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Use fear to become braver, pain to become stronger, trials to become wiser, and misfortune to become better.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If your thoughts are higher than your problems, you can fly above them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Dream while others are sleeping. Dare while others are wishing. Do while others are talking. Deliver while others are quitting.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want to know how fortunate you are, visit three places: the slum, the hospital, and the cemetery.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't let someone treat you like shit or you're just one of many options,' Know your worth...'Remember!, One of The most powerful thing about time is...it CHANGES..' everything! that defines you'

Napz Cherub Pellazo

Today if anything is trying to hold you back, give no attention to it. Get your hopes up, get your faith up, look up, and get ready to rise up.

If you take society’s definition of knowing oneself, you will become lost in the many translations.

Having something is not always better than not having it.

What made me become what I am now is just a reflection of how you have made me.

Napz Cherub Pellazo

If the wind brushes against you, do not complain; it brushes against everyone.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The 7 Steps to Transformation:1. Dream it.2. Envision it.3. Think it.4. Grow it.5. Become it.6. Live it.7. OWN it.

Always assume your assumptions about others are wrong. Because often, they are

Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are enough.

I am a Freedom Seeker, committed to experiencing my life as my true self.

Never abandon your personal message. No matter what comes your way, remain dedicated to that which you hold close to your heart

Jerry Gladstone

The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Flowers that are offered for the dead, do not know the difference of where their beauty will be placed, they do not say, "This is not a palace" or "This is not a garden"; they just are. They are just beautiful, without giving regards to whether they are placed on a grave or in a castle. Flowers are just beautiful, whether they grow by the wayside or in a manicured garden. If we were all like flowers, then we would all be beautiful, with no regards to why or how. We just are. We are just beautiful.

Mistakes focus our minds on specific details. They weed out truths and afford us goals, bringing straight to our attention lessons to be learned. Mistakes are not meant to make us failures; they are meant to make us wise.

Richelle E. Goodrich

But I did feel the vertigo of death’s invitation, beckoning me towards the dark waters below. Only a newfound perspective and desire steadied my wavering soul. I came to realize, just in time, that suicide was far too easy – and obscenely cowardly – after someone I knew, not even half my age, had been through so much worse and still marched gloriously on.

Zack Love

My past still haunts me when I sleep, although I saw that - much to my surprise- his does as well.

Zack Love

But then, as I looked in the mirror, I became fixated on some hairs near my carotid artery that were still there. I pushed the blade deep against my neck to shave them off, and then blood squirted out.

Zack Love

A few minutes later, my eyes began to feel a bit droopy, but I vaguely noticed that Anissa was whispering something.

Zack Love

The lead-up to the moment was magical in every respect, but a part of me was, and still is, uneasy about the whole thing for many reasons.

Zack Love

He clearly suffers from some past traumas too, so hopefully he'll understand why I was untruthful to him about mine.

Zack Love

Adding to my emotional dizziness on Sunday, I spoke with my sister, who kept noting how amazing Michael is, and what a brave and selfless man he is for having helped as he did.

Zack Love

I am a scientist, and as such I am proud to say that being stupid at times is a very human thing. Be proud to be stupid, be proud to be fool. Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect. I admit I am a fool, but at the very least, with each passing day I do my best to get lesser fool.

Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.

If you feel anxiety or depression, you are not in the present. You are either anxiously projecting the future or depressed and stuck in the past. The only thing you have any control over is the present moment; simple breathing exercises can make us calm and present instantly.

Health, peace of mind, peak performance, and success in any area of life all depend upon doing the right thing at the right time, in harmony with the cycles of the Four Seasons.

GPS has saved countless relationships because us men do not like to ask for directions. Now if women could only come with relationship GPS we would be one step closer to world peace.

Spread love. Hug the people you care about and make sure they know that you care and appreciate them. Make it known to your friends and family that you love them.

I believe there are only three businesses: my business, other people's business, and God's business.

Be humble: have the courage to speak the truth.

The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.

Shannon L. Alder

If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.

Anthon St. Maarten

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

Homer

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.

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