Life Lessons Quotes - Page 71

People so often loose sight of the magic in life once they understand how it works.

Here's one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. It's like that old riddle about a tree falling in a forest, and whether it makes a sound if there's no one around to hear it. You keep drawing a line farther and farther away, crossing it every time. That's how people end up stepping off the edge of the earth.

Lauren Oliver

Be strong enough to say this to yourself -Sins were mine, and so shall I have to pay for it

Anamika Mishra

You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for

Janis Joplin

The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a naked memory, an etched countenance, a whisper in the dark, a golden glow these and much more are the woven fabric of the time I have lived.

Howard Thurman

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely.

Malcolm X

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

Chico Xavier

Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Evil does not question itself, only hope questions itself. Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often. Like when a bumblebee flies or an ancient regime is toppled.

Craig Ferguson

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart...

Abraham Verghese

There are so many people put there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me.

Layne Beachley

But circumstances change. Small causes lead to large effects. New paths are added. And all anyone can do . . . is choose.

Kelseyleigh Reber

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.

Chico Xavier

Tears do not replace sweat, at least it never did in me... When I just cry, I'm in the same situation.

Chico Xavier

Sometimes distance was easier than acting, or explaining.

Laura Kaye

So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned.

Sheldon B. Kopp

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

Kristine Gasbarre

You just can't go back and expect your mind to be blown by the same thing every time. Life doesn't work that way.

Holly Nicole Hoxter

… "That at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what´s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That´s the world´s greatest lie." - The Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo -

Paulo Coelho

We need no language to laugh

Janaki Sooriyarachchi

When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things

Denzel Washington

We appreciate most that which we have lived without.

Brian Rathbone

The Christmas after Mom & Dad split up, they both went crazy buying us presents. Matt, Jonny, and I were showered with gifts at home and at Dads apartment. I thought that was great. I was all in favor of my love being paid for with presents. This year all I got was a diary and a secondhand watch. Okay, I know this is corny, but this really is what Christmas is all about.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

Sweet talk's like salt. You can add some later, if need be, but if you pour out too much, you can't sift it out again.

Marcia Gruver

We know how it ends practically before it starts. That´s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack".

Patrick Rothfuss

In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time.

Gary Shteyngart

My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth.

Vincent van Gogh

There is nothing like a crisis to define who you are.

Dexter Morgan

The soul that acquires the virtue of forgiveness won't find any more trouble. No matter what happens, he will know how to run his life ...

Chico Xavier

They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor.

Shannon L. Alder

Things are always given to us when we need them... You just have to decide if you're strong enough, brave enough, to seize it and make ityours. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

When life gives you lemons, forget the lemonade. Make a lemon chicken and a rich lemon cheesecake. Blame life for the extra pounds.

Susie Smith

You move forward. You face up to your challenges. You don't retreat. You're young, and sometimes you'll wish you could. But don't.

Ellyn Bache

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You can't ever put the pieces back together after they hit home.

Amaleka McCall

1. Do what you say you're gonna do 2. Show up! 3. Give genuine praise whenever you can 4. Never say sorry when you don't mean it 5. Never use sarcasm in email (and use the corny ass emoticons)

Matthew Lasar

In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is the quality of your life and the nature of your soul.

Emma Forrest

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

Iimani David

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.

Jay Kristoff

We get so caught up in the life we are leading and forget that we are capable of living.Caring for Eleanor by Sonia Rumzi

Sonia Rumzi

At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no friends or toys, you toyed with dreams of murder, because that is a game to play alone.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Another summer day has come and gone away in Paris and Rome, but I wanna go home..." Home-Alan Chang; Amy Foster-Gillies; Michael Buble

Karla M. Nashar

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.

Jessica Lave

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

Jane Austen

They all walk their own paths, live their own lives. A journey without farewells, a beginning without end. It is a little lonely, but that's how it is

Nobuhiro Watsuki

Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. While the little things-for instance, the way people hang on to what is over-seem so important.

Peter Høeg

All I'm saying is that there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because maybe they're even more important.

Isabelle Rowan

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

Santosh Kalwar

People who say, “it is not my fault,” continuously fail. People who say, “I’ve done no wrong,” have not done enough right. People who say, “I am done!” are never done repeating the cycle. Even in the privacy of our own thoughts, we can’t sow lies and reap truth.

Katina Ferguson

Our eyes tell us what we want to believe, but our heart tells us only the simple truth

Karla M. Nashar

Depression exist without you knowing it, even denying it. It is not an illusion. You don't even know you're in it. It takes awhile before you realize it. If you deny it, it means your still in there or else you won't talk about your misery and the dramas in your life.

Ann Marie Aguilar

But he was able to understand one thing: making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that wil carry him into places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision." - The Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo -

Paulo Coelho

I won't cry because it came to an end, but I will smile because it happened

Karla M. Nashar

But some climbs you have to make alone.

Ellyn Bache

You ever have the feeling you were in the wrong place? That if you could just get over the next hill, cross the next river, look down into the next valley, it'd all...fit. Be right.""All my life, more of less"“All your life spent getting ready for the next thing. I climbed a lot of hills now. I crossed a lot of rivers. Crossed the sea even, left everything I knew and came to Styria. But there I was, waiting for me at the docks when I got off the boat, same man, same life. Next valley ain’t no different from this one. No better anyway. Reckon I’ve learned … just to stick in the place I’m at. Just to be the man I am.

Joe Abercrombie

If I were to live for tomorrow, I would have lived fullest for today.

Santosh Kalwar

Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Fights begin and end with handshakes.

Cameron Conaway

The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They're not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion - to care about people and about your children" (217) - John Singleton "Oh Man, I've Become My Father

Denzel Washington

Have the courage to let some go, and sacrifice for some to stay; thus, live and make life your own way.

Mohammed Ali Bapir

Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.

Paulo Coelho

Patrick: Is fear rith maith nά drochseasamh.Jessica:And that means what?Patrick: A good run is better than a bad stand.Jessica: Oh. And that means what?Patrick: It means, Jessica, that life is about choices. Sometimes you fight, sometimes you flee, but you never surrender.

Michele Bardsley

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