Life Lessons Quotes - Page 73

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there

Zig Ziglar

One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes it's not okay.

Christopher Buehlman

Only if you are possible, everything will be possible.

Santosh Kalwar

If you find yourself easily provoked, then just change the channel.

Toba Beta

Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back

Ally Condie

It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact.

Lorii Myers

Not being excited is to have missed the whole point of life.

Steve Chandler

Life is choosing whom and what you love. Everything else follows.

Todd Johnson

But that's life. That's what you learn from when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.

Per Petterson

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

Paulo Coelho

Some things need to be left unsaid.

Simone Elkeles

Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.

Jodi Picoult

I didn't give up, I walked awayI had enough of accepting actions that were less than I deserved.So...I made a concious choiceTo honour myself,Before complementing another & If that's what; has made you undeniably mad, Than I know, the history of our connection is hidden in the truth of your heart and regardless of your outcome, I have made the right choice for me.

Nikki Rowe

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

D.H. Lawrence

The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they die, but this question was more popular than pixie sticks with the under-four-foot set. I cursed parents for not preparing their children. When I was five, my mother and sister sat me up on the kitchen counter and explained the facts of life: the Easter Bunny didn't exist, Elijah was God's invisible friend, with any luck Nana would die soon, and if I ever saw a unicorn, I should kill it or catch it for cash. I turned out okay.

Sloane Crosley

it's good to have things done withwhen they don't workit's also good not to hateor even forgetthe person you've failed with.

Charles Bukowski

At the same time I know that it’s not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I did it on a hundred different days and in a thousand different ways, and I know it. But this makes the anger worse, not better.

Lauren Oliver

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.

Gautama Buddha

She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons....

Maureen Johnson

If life is a journey, It can take you anywhere you wanna go.

Christina Aguilera

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

Iimani David

Ah, but I was so much older thenI’m younger than that now

Bob Dylan

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

Chetan Bhagat

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

Jennifer Donnelly

Don't ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.

Lavinia Spalding

Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.

Gautama Buddha

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

L.M. Montgomery

The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.

Ellen Hopkins

I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more.

Dorothy Koomson

There's no such thing as ready, there's only willing.

Rachel Cohn

That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the "New York Slide": you offer your words to try to communicate and connect with someone, but your words just hit a brick wall the person has erected to ward off human contact- the words slide down it and roll away.

Kelly Cutrone

Some times things just fall off your plate.

V.K. Springs

When life hands you lemons say,"Lemons? What else have you got?"- bumper sticker

Darynda Jones

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

I don't think you ever realize how much you love something until you have to give it up.” ~Haley James Scott

Brooke Davies

Hate is a terrible thing. It's a wasteful, stupid emotion. You can hate someone with all your heart, but it'll never do them a bit of harm. The only person it hurts is you. You can spend your days hating, letting it eat away at you, and the person you hate will go on living just the same. So, what's the point?

Stuart Neville

And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.

Vincent van Gogh

One of the liabilities of being a deep thinker, Wyatt mused, was that it left him vulnerable to existential crises.

Bridie Clark

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

Louisa May Alcott

I don't forgive him," I said."Hell, no, you don't. And why should you? So he can feel better? Get on with his life? And what's he done to help you get on with yours?

Kelley Armstrong

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

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

Chuck Palahniuk

Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.

Shannon L. Alder

Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs." - Helen Burns

Charlotte Brontë

Before he knew he was immortal. Before life was no longer fragile. Those were the days when life truly meant something.When life was hard but worthwile, and love was valuable because your days were numbered.That was living.

Chelsea Fine

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

Mark Twain

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Richard Bach

They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.

Tim Tharp

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

It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.

Haruki Murakami

And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak...

Jojo Moyes

There is no wealth but life.

John Ruskin

Sometimes you're trying so hard to get your life together and still it's not enough, everything is falling apart. What to do, you're asking. Just keep going through hell for yourself, not for everyone else. Richer with that wisdom, I will build my happiness from nothing. I will rise from the dust. And I will do it on my own. I will live for myself and I won’t look at the others.

Asper Blurry

Because . . . most of us think that the point is something to do with work, or kids, or family, or whatever. But you don't have any of that. There's nothing between you and despair, and you don't seem a very desperate person.' 'Too stupid.' 'You're not stupid. So why don't you ever put your head in the oven?' 'I don't know. There's always a new Nirvana album to look forward to, or something happening in NYPD Blue to make you want to watch the next episode.' 'Exactly.' 'That's the point? NYPD Blue? Jesus.' It was worse than he thought. 'No, no. The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point. I don't know if you even realize it, but on the quiet you don't think life's too bad. You love things. Telly. Music. Food.

Nick Hornby

Sometimesyou meet people and know immediatelythat they were meant to be your friend.

Alison G. Bailey

Just because you know it [my past]... doesn't mean that my wounds are a weight you have to carry. ~Kurogane-san

CLAMP

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

Jodi Picoult

I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than being at the peak of one. I think it's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it.

Nick Cave

And even when they refuse to listen, I'll keep talking anyway, hoping on a slim chance that the things inside my head are worth something to someone.

Nadège Richards

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