Life Lessons Quotes - Page 75

The person who hurt you--who raped you or killed your family--is also here. If you are still angry at that person, if you haven't been able to forgive, you are chained to him. Everyone could feel the emotional truth of that: When someone offends you and you haven't let go, every time you see him, you grow breathless or your heart skips a beat. If the trauma was really severe, you dream of revenge. Above you, is the Mountain of Peace and Prosperity where we all want to go. But when you try to climb that hill, the person you haven't forgiven weighs you down. It's a personal choice whether or not to let go. No one can tell you how long to mourn a death or rage over a rape. But you can't move forward until you break that chain.

Leymah Gbowee

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

Vincent van Gogh

I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn't hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming.

Rainbow Rowell

Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost.

Kellie Elmore

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

Ann Patchett

In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself.

Kelly Cutrone

Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.

Sarah Rees Brennan

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Maya Angelou

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Erica Jong

It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitable take their place; that every place has something good - and bad - to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.

Nicholas Sparks

If someone told me that I could live my life again free of depression provided I was willing to give up the gifts depression has given me--the depth of awareness, the expanded consciousness, the increased sensitivity, the awareness of limitation, the tenderness of love, the meaning of friendship, the apreciation of life, the joy of a passionate heart--I would say, 'This is a Faustian bargain! Give me my depressions. Let the darkness descend. But do not take away the gifts that depression, with the help of some unseen hand, has dredged up from the deep ocean of my soul and strewn along the shores of my life. I can endure darkness if I must; but I cannot lie without these gifts. I cannot live without my soul.' (p. 188)

David Elkins

Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?

Justin Alcala

Where'd the days go, when all we did was play? And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at all just a run and a jump into a harmless fall

Paolo Nutini

(...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply will never access.

Colleen Houck

I don't think that anything happens by coincidence... No one is here by accident... Everyone who crosses our path has a message for us. Otherwise they would have taken another path, or left earlier or later. The fact that these people are here means that they are here for some reason"...

James Redfield

Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.

Amit Ray

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

Jodi Picoult

When they killed him, Mother wouldn't hold her peace, so they slit her throat. I was stupid then, being only nine, and I fought to save them both. But the thorns held me tight. I've learned to appreciate thorns since. The thorns taught me the game. They let me understand what all those grim and serious men who've fought the Hundred War have yet to learn. You can only win the game when you understand that it IS a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him loose them all.

Mark Lawrence

...fool me once, shame on me…fool me twice…I deserved to get fucked over.

Derekica Snake

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom

George S. Patton Jr.

Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.

Chuck Palahniuk

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.

Paulo Coelho

Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.

Paulo Coelho

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes

You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.

Pittacus Lore

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.

Paulo Coelho

Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be.

Jonas Jonasson

Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.

Steve Maraboli

Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.

Jennifer Egan

Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are

Iain S. Thomas

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Mel Brooks

When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.

Kelly Cutrone

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

Orson Scott Card

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

Aesop

Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which may make you misjudge the thickness of their skin, and fail to worry about insulting them. But should you offend their honor and their pride, they will overwhelm you with a violence that seems sudden and extreme given their slowness to anger. If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impudent or their offer ridiculous.

Robert Greene

You can’t make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good aboutyourself.

Robin S. Sharma

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

Stephen King

Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.

Dale Carnegie

Nothing in this world happens by chance.

Paulo Coelho

You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Zig Ziglar

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

Douglas Coupland

This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most. I believe you can't feel real joy unless you've felt heartache. You can't have a sense of victory unless you know what it means to fail. You can't know what it's like to feel holy until you know what it's like to feel really fucking evil. And you can't be birthed again until you've died.

Kelly Cutrone

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

Mary Oliver

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

Anonymous

There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

Maya Angelou

First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... . Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. Consider none your superior whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly, or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen.

Christopher Paolini

Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.

Paulo Coelho

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life they merely get used to it.

Douglas Coupland

He who becomes the slave of habit,who follows the same routes every day,who never changes pace,who does not risk and change the color of his clothes,who does not speak and does not experience,dies slowly.He or she who shuns passion,who prefers black on white,dotting ones "it’s" rather than a bundle of emotions, the kind that make your eyes glimmer,that turn a yawn into a smile,that make the heart pound in the face of mistakes and feelings,dies slowly.He or she who does not turn things topsy-turvy,who is unhappy at work,who does not risk certainty for uncertainty,to thus follow a dream,those who do not forego sound advice at least once in their lives,die slowly.He who does not travel, who does not read,who does not listen to music,who does not find grace in himself,she who does not find grace in herself,dies slowly.He who slowly destroys his own self-esteem,who does not allow himself to be helped,who spends days on end complaining about his own bad luck, about the rain that never stops,dies slowly.He or she who abandon a project before starting it, who fail to ask questions on subjects he doesn't know, he or she who don't reply when they are asked something they do know,die slowly.Let's try and avoid death in small doses,reminding oneself that being alive requires an effort far greater than the simple fact of breathing.Only a burning patience will leadto the attainment of a splendid happiness.

Martha Medeiros

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?” Aunty Ifeka said. “Your life belongs to you and you alone.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.

Joe Abercrombie

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody it saves so much trouble

Rudyard Kipling

Always be fearless. Walk like lion, talk like pigeons, live like elephants and love like an infant child.

Santosh Kalwar

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.

Erol Ozan

That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

Cecelia Ahern

Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing.

Jennifer Brown

I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Give out what you most want to come back.

Robin S. Sharma

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