Life Lessons Quotes

We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.

~ William Gibson

If you cannot see yourself fairly or accurately represented in the community where you live... and nothing there makes you feel awake or alive, I suggest you start doing some research on some other communities

~ Kelly Cutrone

But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.

~ Kelly Cutrone

Things can be cleaned and replaced. Great moments cannot afford to be lost.

~ Cindy Woodsmall

If experience is the best teacher, there's nothing that comes close to the experience of life.

~ Michael A. Singer

What I think is not necessarily, what I feel and what I feel is not necessarily, what I think.

~ Santosh Kalwar

He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.

~ Nicholas Sparks

I’m just saying it doesn’t always have to be spirits and magic. Sometimes hauntings are in your mind. It doesn’t make them less real.

~ Kendare Blake

You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment of pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong?

~ Julian Barnes

You can’t really yell at your boyfriend for stealing your seat and your best friend. You also can’t yell at your best friend for stealing your boyfriend. Or you can…but Hi seemed like a much easier way to start the morning.

~ Ally Carter

Big house, big car, big breast, big life, big this and big that; what is so big about living big? Live on KISS principle not BIG principle.

~ Santosh Kalwar

(...)best of luck, avoid roasted cabbage, don't eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!

~ Christopher Paolini

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of us don't even know it.

~ Nenia Campbell

In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in the long years after, they can be called up in detail, and every emotion that was stirred by them can be lived through anew; these are the tragedies of life.

~ James Weldon Johnson

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.

~ Wanda E. Brunstetter

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once.

~ Abraham Lincoln

To be calm and compassionate you need courage and conviction.

~ Solange Nicole

Master, go on, and I will follow theeTo the last gasp with truth and loyalty.

~ William Shakespeare

Having the right to happiness means having the right to earn it, not having it given to you without effort and action on your part.

~ Jillian Michaels

Not knowing is not a problem, not wondering is.

~ Chase Weir

If you see the dragon fly,best you drink the flagon dry.”—Zarost

~ Greg Hamerton

Each moment spent on this bright blue planet is precious so use it carefully.

~ Santosh Kalwar

The thing about knowing you’re broken is that knowing is not enough to fix it.

~ John Goode

The planet is here for our delight, but it is also here for us to change, to make it the best it can be. It's not just about sleeping and fucking and getting the right dress. Let's HOPE not.

~ Kelly Cutrone

t may not be the life you imagined, but it’s your life. You came here for a reason. Is it time for you to go and begin again?

~ Doug Cooper

I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.

~ Anita Baker

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart.The important things.

~ Ana Castillo

You know, I think it's important to keep a balance in things. Yeah, balance, that's the right word. Cause the guy who wants too much risks losing absolutely everything. Of course, the one who wants too little from life, might not get anything at all.

~ Thomas Angelo

being born a princess is all right, but behaving like one can be dangerous.

~ Siddhartha Choudhary

The past is called the past for a reason. If you are constantly looking behind you, your eyes aren't on the road ahead. You don't drive the car that way, so why should you live your life that way?

~ Rachel Van Dyken

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

~ Nicholas Butler

Well, I agree that 'trial and error' is a pretty pessimistic name for it. And maybe that's what it is most of the time. But I think the point is that it's not just try-error. Most of the time, it's try-error-try.

~ David Levithan

Journey becomes difficult when we know the destination but not aware of the right path, may be the supreme power testing your moral and physical stamina.

~ Durgesh Satpathy

Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.

~ Jim Henson

What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control

~ Denzel Washington

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

~ Thomas Moore

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

~ Karen Horney

We're not making mistakes. We're making experiences.

~ Dan Bergstein