Life Lessons Quotes

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

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

I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It's not about quantity, it's about quality.

~ Connor Franta

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

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

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

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

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

~ Louisa May Alcott

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

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

That is life, isn’t it? Fate. Luck. Chance. A long series of what-if’s that lead from one moment to the next, time never pausing for you to catch your breath, to make sense of the cards that have been handed to you. And all you can do is play your cards and hope for the best, because in the end, it all comes back to those three basics.Fate. Luck. Chance.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

This is the legend of Cassius Clay, The most beautiful fighter in the world today.He talks a great deal, and brags indeed-y, of a muscular punch that's incredibly speed-y.The fistic world was dull and weary,But with a champ like Liston, things had to be dreary.Then someone with color and someone with dash, Brought fight fans are runnin' with Cash.This brash young boxer is something to see And the heavyweight championship is his des-tin-y.This kid fights great; he’s got speed and endurance,But if you sign to fight him, increase your insurance.This kid's got a left; this kid's got a right,If he hit you once, you're asleep for the night.And as you lie on the floor while the ref counts ten,You’ll pray that you won’t have to fight me again.For I am the man this poem’s about,The next champ of the world, there isn’t a doubt.This I predict and I know the score,I’ll be champ of the world in ’64.When I say three, they’ll go in the third,10 months agoSo don’t bet against me, I’m a man of my word.He is the greatest! Yes!I am the man this poem’s about,I’ll be champ of the world, there isn’t a doubt.Here I predict Mr. Liston’s dismemberment,I’ll hit him so hard; he’ll wonder where October and November went.When I say two, there’s never a third,Standin against me is completely absurd.When Cassius says a mouse can outrun a horse,Don’t ask how; put your money where your mouse is!I AM THE GREATEST!

~ Muhammad Ali