Life Lessons Quotes

When the chips are down, you are giventhe chance to find the strength you never knew you had and put it toward the greater good. Or go over to the dark side. You know, if that’s how you roll.

~ Jessica Lave

Here's one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. It's like that old riddle about a tree falling in a forest, and whether it makes a sound if there's no one around to hear it. You keep drawing a line farther and farther away, crossing it every time. That's how people end up stepping off the edge of the earth.

~ Lauren Oliver

Be strong enough to say this to yourself -Sins were mine, and so shall I have to pay for it

~ Anamika Mishra

The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a naked memory, an etched countenance, a whisper in the dark, a golden glow these and much more are the woven fabric of the time I have lived.

~ Howard Thurman

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely.

~ Malcolm X

When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become worse.

~ Chico Xavier

Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Evil does not question itself, only hope questions itself. Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often. Like when a bumblebee flies or an ancient regime is toppled.

~ Craig Ferguson

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart...

~ Abraham Verghese

But circumstances change. Small causes lead to large effects. New paths are added. And all anyone can do . . . is choose.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

We need to get rid of hate, envy, jealousy, discord in ourselves, so we can reach a solution in terms of peace in order to feel that time has come for human happiness.

~ Chico Xavier

Sometimes distance was easier than acting, or explaining.

~ Laura Kaye

So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned.

~ Sheldon B. Kopp

I teach the world how to treat me by the way I treat myself, and the way I present myself.

~ Kristine Gasbarre

You just can't go back and expect your mind to be blown by the same thing every time. Life doesn't work that way.

~ Holly Nicole Hoxter

… That at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what´s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That´s the world´s greatest lie. - The Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo -

~ Paulo Coelho

We need no language to laugh

~ Janaki Sooriyarachchi

When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it (94) - Danny Glover, The Fundamental Things

~ Denzel Washington

We appreciate most that which we have lived without.

~ Brian Rathbone

All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson.

~ Amy Carmichael

In your life, always be like a driver who runs the car not just a car.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Was it always to be like this? she wondered. A moment of joy followed by a new sorrow?

~ Soheir Khashoggi

There is such dissociation between what the eyes see and what the mind envisions. The final thought is just a matter of interpretation, coloured by our experiences.

~ Anirban Bose

Sometimes it’s the complication, which just lies in our minds

~ Anamika Mishra

As the manager sits before a performance, as the critics wait like hungry dogs to rip apart the performance, they all become entwined in the theatrics of it all.

~ Isabella Kruger

A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold.

~ Benjamin Zander

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.

~ Jamaica Kincaid

Inside me there was everything I had believed was outside. There was, in particular, the sun, light, and all colors. There were even the shapes of objects and the distance between objects. Everything was there and movement as well… Light is an element that we carry inside us and which can grow there with as much abundance, variety, and intensity as it can outside of us…I could light myself…that is, I could create a light inside of me so alive, so large, and so near that my eyes, my physical eyes, or what remained of them, vibrated, almost to the point of hurting… God is there under a form that has the good luck to be neither religious, not intellectual, nor sentimental, but quite simply alive.

~ Jacques Lusseyran

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees

~ Paulo Coelho

Judge not lest ye be judged yourself.

~ Metallica

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

~ Alan Sillitoe

An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.

~ Hervé Le Tellier

We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was

~ Jean Kwok

Time remorselessly rambles down the corridors and streets of our lives. but it is not until autumn that most of us become aware that our tickets are stamped with a terminal destination.

~ Joe L. Wheeler

She didn’t need hope anymore because she knew the things you wanted weren’t necessarily the things that you needed. She knew that the things that were meant to be just happened. You couldn’t control them like she once thought.

~ Holly Hood

People so often loose sight of the magic in life once they understand how it works.

~ Thomas Rogal Ii

Your spirit lives on in your work. YOU decide what manner of work that will be.

~ Iimani David

somehow people forget that there is God....what more to us we're just individualsto forget is part of imperfections..

~ Orosa Nakpil Malate

I’m speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There’s powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but the limit of your imagination is bones breaking and bullets flying.

~ Scott Lynch

If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.

~ Gabrielle Zevin