Life Lessons Quotes

The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important. When you think highly of yourself, me thinking highly of you will never be enough!

~ Shannon L. Alder

Bringing to light what had been hidden in darkness should not overwhelm you, but EDUCATE you.

~ Solange Nicole

It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun.

~ Randy Pausch

You don't have to be a doctor to know when a relationship is not healthy.

~ Jodyne L. Speyer

Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to those individuals who preyed on them.

~ Nenia Campbell

What will remain is neither you nor me but what we shared among each others.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Introspective souls are often tormented by their passionate visions. This is because visionaries see what shall be and wake up to what is. However, if you couldn't see a glimpse of the city lights while stranded in the forest, how would you ever know to walk in that direction? Sometimes, your vision can't be put into action, until you gather the learning experiences, along your journey first.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Love isn't something to be given on whim, or shelved when it isn't convenient. Love is gift, a promise, and a belief in another person. If you treat it as such, it will fulfill you always

~ Brian Maclearn

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

~ Jane Austen

They all walk their own paths, live their own lives. A journey without farewells, a beginning without end. It is a little lonely, but that's how it is

~ Nobuhiro Watsuki

All I'm saying is that there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because maybe they're even more important.

~ Isabelle Rowan

I don’t care if people say that I am staying hungry and foolish.

~ Santosh Kalwar

People who say, “it is not my fault,” continuously fail. People who say, “I’ve done no wrong,” have not done enough right. People who say, “I am done!” are never done repeating the cycle. Even in the privacy of our own thoughts, we can’t sow lies and reap truth.

~ Katina Ferguson

Our eyes tell us what we want to believe, but our heart tells us only the simple truth

~ Karla M. Nashar

Depression exist without you knowing it, even denying it. It is not an illusion. You don't even know you're in it. It takes awhile before you realize it. If you deny it, it means your still in there or else you won't talk about your misery and the dramas in your life.

~ Ann Marie Aguilar

But he was able to understand one thing: making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that wil carry him into places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision. - The Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo -

~ Paulo Coelho

I won't cry because it came to an end, but I will smile because it happened

~ Karla M. Nashar

But some climbs you have to make alone.

~ Ellyn Bache

You ever have the feeling you were in the wrong place? That if you could just get over the next hill, cross the next river, look down into the next valley, it'd all...fit. Be right.All my life, more of less“All your life spent getting ready for the next thing. I climbed a lot of hills now. I crossed a lot of rivers. Crossed the sea even, left everything I knew and came to Styria. But there I was, waiting for me at the docks when I got off the boat, same man, same life. Next valley ain’t no different from this one. No better anyway. Reckon I’ve learned … just to stick in the place I’m at. Just to be the man I am.

~ Joe Abercrombie

If I were to live for tomorrow, I would have lived fullest for today.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Fights begin and end with handshakes.

~ Cameron Conaway

The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They're not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion - to care about people and about your children (217) - John Singleton Oh Man, I've Become My Father

~ Denzel Washington

Have the courage to let some go, and sacrifice for some to stay; thus, live and make life your own way.

~ Mohammed Ali Bapir

Patrick: Is fear rith maith nά drochseasamh.Jessica:And that means what?Patrick: A good run is better than a bad stand.Jessica: Oh. And that means what?Patrick: It means, Jessica, that life is about choices. Sometimes you fight, sometimes you flee, but you never surrender.

~ Michele Bardsley

The ultimate measure of a person is not her mistakes or accomplishments, but what she does with them.

~ Liza M. Wiemer

The Christmas after Mom & Dad split up, they both went crazy buying us presents. Matt, Jonny, and I were showered with gifts at home and at Dads apartment. I thought that was great. I was all in favor of my love being paid for with presents. This year all I got was a diary and a secondhand watch. Okay, I know this is corny, but this really is what Christmas is all about.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

Sweet talk's like salt. You can add some later, if need be, but if you pour out too much, you can't sift it out again.

~ Marcia Gruver

We know how it ends practically before it starts. That´s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time.

~ Gary Shteyngart

My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

There is nothing like a crisis to define who you are.

~ Dexter Morgan

They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Things are always given to us when we need them... You just have to decide if you're strong enough, brave enough, to seize it and make ityours. (Acheron)

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

You move forward. You face up to your challenges. You don't retreat. You're young, and sometimes you'll wish you could. But don't.

~ Ellyn Bache

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You can't ever put the pieces back together after they hit home.

~ Amaleka Mccall

In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is the quality of your life and the nature of your soul.

~ Emma Forrest

Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is what?

~ Iimani David

LOOK AROUND. GAME DEAD, RIVERS BLACK, LAND CHOKED WITH WEED. SKIES BLEEDING, RED AS BLOOD. FOR WHAT?YOUR KIND ARE BLIND. YOU SEE ONLY THE NOW. NEVER THE WILL BE.BUT SOON YOU WILL. WHEN ALL IS GONE, WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY MONKEY-CHILDREN THAT YOU MURDER FOR A SCRAP OF LAND, A DROP OF CLEAN WATER, THEN YOU WILL SEE.

~ Jay Kristoff

At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no friends or toys, you toyed with dreams of murder, because that is a game to play alone.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Another summer day has come and gone away in Paris and Rome, but I wanna go home... Home-Alan Chang; Amy Foster-Gillies; Michael Buble

~ Karla M. Nashar