Life Quotes - Page 42

I made sure to pay attention to everything I was doing. To be fully in the moment. Because that's all life is, really, a string of moments that you knot together and carry with you. Hopefully most of those moments are wonderful, but of course they won't all be. The trick is to recognize an important one when it happens. Even if you share the moment with someone else, it is still yours. Your string is different from anyone else's. It is something no one can ever take away from you. It will protect you and guide you, because it IS you. What you hold here, in your hand, in this box, this is my s

Wendy Mass

The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.

Reinhold Messner

There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to notice.

Brian Greene

Love is seeking the good and being the good.

Erica Goros

As a young man, he had instinctively husbanded the freshness of his powers. At the time, it was too soon to see that this freshness was giving birth to vivacity and gaiety, and shape to the courage needed to forge a soul that does not pale, no matter what life brings, regards life not as a heavy burden, a cross, but merely as a duty, and does battle with it with dignity.He had devoted much mental care to his heart and its wise laws. Observing the reflection of beauty on the imagination, both consciously and unconsciously, then the transition from impression to emotion, its symptoms, play, and outcome and looking around himself, advancing into life, he derived for himself the conviction that love moves the world like Archimede's lever, that it holds as much universal and irrefutable truth and good as misunderstanding and misuse do hypocrisy and ugliness.p. 494

Ivan Goncharov

The basis of your life is absolute freedom, the goal is joy, and the result of that perfect combination is motion forward, or growth. Your goal is to find objects of attention that let your cork raise.

Abraham-Hicks

I wasn't getting better. I was getting worse.I did not go to the doctor because I didn't want pills. If this was going to kill me then let me be killed by it. If this was the rest of my life I could not live.

Jeanette Winterson

It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.

Conn Iggulden

In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream.

E.M. Forster

The meaning of life is more than a definition of life.

We are always seeking it, never finding it.

I don’t bother with rhyme. RarelyAre two trees the same, one beside the other.I think and write like flowers have colorBut with less perfection in my way of expressing myselfBecause I lack the divine simplicityOf wholly being only my exterior.I see and I’m moved,Moved the way water runs when the ground is slopingAnd what I write is as natural as the rising wind...

Alberto Caeiro

Breathing seemed harder in the cemetery, and selfish, somehow...

Sheri Webber

On Earth, Liz was constantly occupied with studying and finding a college and a career and all those other things that the adults in her life deemed terribly important. Since she had died, everything she was doing on Earth had seemed entirely meaningless. From Liz's point of view, the question of what her life would be was now definitively answered. The story of her life is short and pointless: There once was a girl who got hit by a car and died. The end.

Gabrielle Zevin

You live," I said, "Knowing you will die. Everyone lives every day knowing they could die at any moment. And yet they carry on. They lift their heads high and carry on and build a beautiful, amazing world. What for, if there is no point? Bravery. Courage. To live knowing death hangs over you. Sweet misery, fragile threads of life and existence, and you still fight for every moment, to be alive and to be as alive as possible.""And the point?""The point, Jane, is for beauty. Simplistic, joyous beauty; complicated, twisted beauty-- the beauty of courage, the beauty of loss. For if there is a Something Else out there, it is surely hidden among the beauty of this world.

Isabella Rogge

Living a lie – pretending everything is fine when we are actually discontented – is hard work and, in the long run, even bad for our health. We pay a high price for compromising on this honesty – and neglecting ourselves. Finding our inner passion, our mission in life, and connecting with who we really are, our spiritual being or our higher self – this is the key to success and fulfilment. Our ‘soul’ purpose is our sole purpose in life.

Kristiane Backer

Inside every poor creature was a sense of some other happy destiny, a destiny that was necessary and inevitable -why, then, did they find their lives such a burden and why were they always waiting for something?

Andrei Platonov

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

Oliver North

Life is just too beautiful if meaning is attached to it, and useless when meaningless!!

Tripta Arora

Sajib had said, What about happiness – can you measure that?Rodney had thought yes, you could measure it by ease of living –how much does a person suffer compared to the next? Now, to make more people happy, how do we eliminate suffering? But happiness, in its strength or fragility, was more complex than comfort. It had so many sources, so many nemeses, and so many pitfalls. He couldn’t, in his right mind, try to instruct the happiness of others.

Katherine Russell

The purpose of life is to fall in love, and never get caught.

Robert Black

I have come here not to find answers, but to find a way to live in a world without any.

Sue Monk Kidd

She asked another question: "What does it matter if the rhinos die out? Is it really important that they are saved?"This would normally have riled me... but I had comes to think of her as Dr. Spock form Star Trek - an emotionless, purely logical creature, at least with regards to her feels for animals. Like Spock, though, I knew there were one or two things that stirred her, so I gave an honest reply."... to be honest, it doesn't matter. No economy will suffer, nobody will go hungry, no diseases will be spawned. Yet there will never be a way to place a value on what we have lost. Future children will see rhinos only in books and wonder how we let them go so easily. It would be like lighting a fire in the Louvre and watching the Mona Lisa burn. Most people would think 'What a pity' and leave it at that while only a few wept.

Peter Allison

Every layer of complexity creates greater distance from life’s simple truths.

Fennel Hudson

Life is life! The real meaning and definition of life is not wealth, though wealth can define and give meaning to life.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The purpose of life is life.

Dejan Stojanovic

You know what's wrong with scientific power?... It's a form of inherited wealth... Most kinds of power require a substantial sacrifice by whoever wants the power. There is an apprenticeship, a discipline lasting many years. Whatever kind of power you want. President of the company. Black belt in karate. Spiritual Guru. Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away: it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline. Now, what is interesting about this process is that, by the time someone has acquired the ability to his with his bare hands, he has also matured to the point where he won't use it unwisely. So that kind of power has a built-in control. The discipline of the getting the power changes you so that you won't abuse it. But scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step... There is no discipline... no mastery: old scientists are ignored. There is no humility before nature... A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has purchased his power in the form of a Saturday night special. And that is the kind of power that science fosters, and permits.

Michael Crichton

Life is less about finding and more about seeking.

Seth Adam Smith

The work of each individual contributes to a totality, and so becomes an undying part of the totality. That totality of human lives, past and present - and to come - forms a tapestry that has been in existence now for many tens of thousands of years and has been growing more elaborate and, on the whole, more beautiful in all that time... An individual life is one thread in the tapestry, and what is one thread compared to the whole?

Isaac Asimov

Life is the journey of coming home to ourselves.

Lisa Cypers Kamen

A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.

Viktor E. Frankl

The earth is not just for the clever and the strong.

Shūsaku Endō

The meanings of life aren’t inherited. What is inherited is the mandate to make meanings of life by how we live. The endings of life give life’s meanings a chance to show. The beginning of the end of our order, our way, is now in view. This isn’t punishment, any more than dying is a punishment for being born.

Stephen Jenkinson

I want my life to mean something!

Marliss Melton

If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.

Dan Wells

Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.

Jim Butcher

These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, neatly kept world he so cherished rose up to confront him with all its essential sloppiness, irrationality, and bad business sense.

T.C. Boyle

Reality is never what you imagined it would be. Sometimes it’s better. Sometimes it’s worse. And sometimes it’s just different. It’s not worth wasting time and energy trying to predict how things are going to turn out. Just go with the flow and keep your eyes and ears peeled.

Abby Rosmarin

Sometimes expecting too much lands you nowhere in life..

Shivam Singh

Always keep in mind that even your most dreadful expectations, are still nothing more than mere assumptions

Sherif A. El-Mawardy

You cannot win anymore even if you do your best. Because everyone is doing their best. In order to win, you have to do more than you best.

M.F. Moonzajer

La vie est belle .....La vie est loca!Sometimes up...Other times downBig smiles....WaterfallsMake the best of it...As no one knows It's up to you how it goes

Larissa Qat

The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.

Bryant McGill

As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.

Julie Murphy

Change rarely happens in doses large enough to choke you. Everyday you swallow a little more and expect a little less.

Diane Meier

Serving with love, a kind heart, and without expectations is happiness.

Debasish Mridha

When you let it go with love, but without expectations, it is forever yours.

Debasish Mridha

Life is an art of managing conflicts—conflicts between our expectations and perceptions. It is like a tightrope walk. We load our expectations from life on one end of the bar and our perceptions about life on other, and move on the rope, relying on the balance of the stick. Overload, on any end, can fling us down, ruining the remaining journey. Some might survive such falls through repeated mood swings or with emotional breakdowns, while some might go down, diving deep into the bottom of depression.

Hari Parameshwar

She’d struck Esk once before – the blow a baby gets to introduce it to the world and give it a rough idea of what to expect from life.

Terry Pratchett

When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am now. Because of a mechanical failure, the prediction was inexact.

Arthur Nersesian

...nowadays, everyone seemed to be dreaming of absolutely everything. Traveling and loving and having a fantastic career and a happy family, all while being thin, beautiful, popular, and in touch with their spiritual side.

Katarina Bivald

Real love when it comes, it doesn't look like anything you'd expect.

QUEER AS FOLK

Messy" is a word we use to explain a conflict with an expectation we had. Eliminate the expectation, and you eliminate the "messy".

Steve Maraboli

What are you? Do you know? What you are is you're always trying to smooth everything over. What you are is always trying to be moderate. What you are is never telling the truth if you think it's going to hurt somebody's feelings. What you are is you're always compromising. What you are is always complacent. What you are is always trying to find the bright side of things. The one with the manners. The one who abides everything patiently. The one with ultimate decorum. The boy who never breaks the code.

Philip Roth

When you stop expecting miracles, life is the miracle.

Marty Rubin

He expected too much from people, that was the problem, Ethan thought. He expected too much from life.

Anne Frasier

Life was easier when you stopped caring, when you stopped expecting things to get better.

Cora Carmack

Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane “experiences” which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That’s not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.

Tom Hodgkinson

You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry

Lalita Tademy

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