Life Quotes - Page 61

The cheapest route to a new opportunity is conversation.

Mario L Castellanos

Life only gives opportunities, not offers

Vignesh S

I’ve given up already in life but something or someone keep pushing me to keep going.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

But first you have to fight, to try other ways. If your life displeases you, my lad, try to change it. Don't give in to defeat so easily. Death is the only sure defeat. It is the end of everything.

Félix J. Palma

Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off forever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.

Anthony Burgess

When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.

Be Brave. Remember, life is a gift.

Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and committing always to act from that authentic center.

Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.

With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other's cards.

Frederick Buechner

An untold story has a weight that can submerge you, sure as a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean. I learned that. This kind of story, this kind of things kept secrets -they have the power to keep your head in forever, and most of all for yourself.

Every Single Number on the Clock knows all my Secrets.

Mian Adeel Mushtaq

Just because you knew it, doesn't mean you must reveal it. There are circumstances in life that should remain as secrets.

Joe Mari Fadrigalan

the safest place to keep your secrets is to keep them in your mind with a locked tongue

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

But there’s that thing with secrets, too, how they take over your head, feeding on your every thought, growing bigger all the time until the day comes they’re so heavy you can’t walk.

I guess when someone tells you something they they usually guard, you feel privileged, not because you know something no-one else knows, but because you feel chosen. You feel like that person wants her life to intersect with yours. I think that's what felt best about it.

if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves

He winced at her efforts to mollify him. Why didn't she say she was disgusted with his behaviour, with his long absence, his infrequent superficial letters? And if she did say it - would he defend himself? Would he give reasons, try to explain how meaningless every endeavour seemed to him? No. For then she would start crying again, he would tell her to stop being silly, she would ask for details, and he would tell her to mind her own business.

Rohinton Mistry

Some of the things I hated my parents for when I was younger are the same things I love my parents for now that I'm older.

Above all, staring at my old bedroom ceiling, I feel safe. Cocooned from the world; wrapped up in cotton wool. No one can get me here. No one even knows I'm here. I won't get any nasty letters and I won't get any nasty phone calls and I won't get any nasty visitors. It's like a sanctuary. I feel as if I'm fifteen again, with nothing to worry about but my Homework. (And I haven't even got any of that.)

Sophie Kinsella

He has little hope that university, when he gets there next year, will be any different. Like right now, all these pupils taking notes as if their life depended on it. All for what? he wants to shout. To get into the top university, so that you can somehow convince yourself you are better than the great unwashed? So that your parents can convince themselves that they are better parents than the great unwashed? So that Mum and Dad’s fourteen-hour days at the office, paying for a fucking private education you never asked for, wasn’t just a pathetic waste of a life?

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.

It made a big difference in my life to grow up with a dad who wasn't afraid of how great my mom was.

onething i have learnt is that parents should treat their kids in a way they would love in return, because growing up litteraly makes you a kid again. you will get it too.

Mohlalefi j motsima

Sonia lives her life fully. If she dies tomorrow, she'll die happy. If she lives the way you want her to live, she'll die miserable. So leave her alone, okay?

Sonia Sotomayor

Our parents prayer is the most beautiful poetry and expectations

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Worship Allah and associate nothing with Him, and to parents do good, and to relatives, orphans, the needy, the near neighbor, the neighbor farther away, the companion at your side, the traveler, and those whom your right hands possess (slaves). Indeed, Allah does not like those who are proud and boastful.[Al-Qur'an Surah Nisa 4:36]

Asma Naqi

I've been alone since my mom met Scott.He sucked the nectar from her heartlike a famished butterfly. No nurture,no nourishment left for Kristina.A vacation is a poor substitutefor love.

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

Sophie Kinsella

The right art," cried the Master, "is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.

You have described only too well," replied the Master, "where the difficulty lies...The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You...brace yourself for failure. So long as that is so, you have no choice but to call forth something yourself that ought to happen independently of you, and so long as you call it forth your hand will not open in the right way--like the hand of a child.

During this journey it was as if he again thought over his whole life and reached the same old comforting and hopeless conclusion: that there was no need for him to start anything, that he had to live out his life without doing evil, without anxiety, and without wishing for anything.

If you are surrounded by people who not only don't believe in your goals and your positive outlook on life, but who also continually try to tear you down, it will be extremely challenging for you to hold firmly in mind that you will succeed and that you can be happy.

What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.

Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from taking action. If you don't believe something is possible, you won't even attempt it.

Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.

Your actions create an "energy vortex" that draws in the necessary ingredients for your venture.

Careful not to blur the lines between what belongs to characters, and what does not belong to you. Even 'reality tv' is scripted. Don't get it twisted. ~T.F. Hodge

What messes us up a lot in this life is setting our expectations way too high and then being ashamed when we fail. What is worse is when we allow other people to make us feel ashamed for failing. What is worse than that is hiding and lying about our failure. It’s ok to fail, especially when it’s a significant life change and you gotta stand up for that right in this life.

Money - it can buy you a moment of glee but not a lifetime of happiness.

Two things define you in this life. Your attitude when you are at your highest and your attitude when you are at your lowest. Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom in order to recognize and define what truly matters.

Sometimes life gives you a little punch in the stomach... You just gotta catch your breath and keep going.

We are not entitled to ALL of anything, not even ourselves... and rightfully so.

We all have our things that we would rather live without. It's how we live with them when we have no choice that makes us or breaks us.

Want less, need less, live more.

People cannot live forever, but memories can. Never pass up an opportunity to create awesome memories with your special ones.

Hindsight is a glorious thing. Too bad it never helps anyone.

Christina Tetreault

If your words, actions and intentions are not genuine, I have no use for you or room for you in my life.

Those who cannot perceive are no better than those who cannot see...Those who cannot empathize are no better than those who cannot perceive...

Ashok Kallarakkal

The bad, icky and stinky things that happen sometimes should never be allowed to have an adverse effect over the good, lovely and beautiful things happening everyday.

Azhar Ali

The only true disability is the inability to accept and respect differences.

There is nothing more relieving than speaking truth in tough moments.

If you forget where you came from, you've gone too far.

It takes an earthquake to alter the course of a river. What does it take to change the course of life?

you cannot wait for the change. You have to be the change".

Fuck the ones who hurt you Stop thinking about them, Get on with your own lifeThey'll eventually come back with apologies And you'll gladly accept them; as you keep growing with your life.

LIFE is what YOU make it. Make sure it's AWESOME.

I don't forgive people, but I don't let them bother me either!

Sometimes it can be really rough, but I believe if we love one another more, we can help to share the burdens and make the world a better place.

It takes a strong individual to live passionately, and with having quality in their conviction, that sets the results one achieves.

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