Life Lessons Quotes

Alone with my wine and my misery, I was convinced that life was composed of a string of “if only’s” leading from one self-inflicted bungle to the next until at some point, one’s final iteration of the excuse became one’s final utterance, and one expired.

~ Andrew Levkoff

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

~ David Brooks

Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.

~ Sheldon B. Kopp

What are you doing extra? That's what counts. That's when you're working hard - when you're going above and over what's expected of you (102). - Tony Gonzalez, The Giant Within

~ Denzel Washington

There's nothing good or bad, except by comparison (210) - Bud Selig Effort is Everything

~ Denzel Washington

It's okay to wander.

~ Tony Dungy

Join the mob or go for what you want. Give yourself plenty of quiet time alone in order to get in touch with who you are...Focus power of thought. Remind yourself that the world is yours for the asking. The non-risker does not grow, you just get older. When you have decided which ideas, beliefs, relationships, and situations no longer work for you, it is time to release them. Let go of negative thoughts - view them as a flight of birds crossing your path. See them fly into view and continue on their way.' - from Joan Root's diary

~ Mark Seal

Fictional characters also evolve, the way human being do in real life.

~ Saumya Kaushik...

Love does not only need a taste, but it also needs a present.

~ Stebby Julionatan

But when your situation is hopeless, all you can do is turn the world upside down, transform it according to your wishes, and create anew.

~ Fatema Mernissi

What river can flood over the mountains of your love?

~ Sorin Cerin

This life is not perfect, live it to the full, it's all we have

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

It's not about the external things that surround you, but it's about YOU.How you operates your life, how you take your path and walk with it.

~ Jayson Engay

You can't have everything, I've often noticed it.

~ Samuel Beckett

Life is neither hard nor easy, life is life. Understanding this will help you endure every life situation, for life is neither hard nor easy, life is simply life.

~ David Benedict Zumbo

The entire quest is for acceptance. You run from pillar to post for being accepted as you are. This quest ends only when you realize that the most important in life is to accept yourself totally, wholly and completely. Unfortunately, that is a long drawn process and it takes time to reach that level. However, once you reach that stage, you are at entire peace with yourself.

~ Neelam Saxena Chandra

Read. You can always talk with another reader.

~ Rorke Denver

Some good can emerge from the most horrific of events. There is something positive hidden in every negative, and something negative in every positive. Life is complicated, and a balanced person can see both sides.

~ Amish Tripathi

TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

~ Pierre Dos Utt

The details that are life's special pattern, like how in handwoven rugs what really makes them unique are the tiny flaws in the stitching, little gaps and jumps and stutters that can never be reproduced. so many things become beautiful when you really look.

~ Lauren Oliver

If you have ever come up against Nothing you have no idea how it can scare you out of your wits. When I was a child I used to be afraid of Something in the dark. I know now that the most fearful thing about the dark is that we may find Nothing in it.

~ Howard Spring

Promise is more worthy than Time and Money.

~ Vijay Dhameliya

People don’t seem to realizeit that it is not like we’re onthe Titanic and we have toavoid the iceberg. We’vealready hit the iceberg. Thewater is rushing in down below. But some people justdon’t want to leave the dancefloor; others don’t want togive up on the buffet. But ifwe don’t make the hardchoices, nature will make them for u

~ Peter Adejimi

Nature is subtle and complex.

~ Marlene Van Niekerk

Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy

~ Agona Apell

But things change, people change, Gaby. Otherwise what would be the point of living?

~ Soheir Khashoggi

Relationships is not a game of amateurs is what people say..But they begin to foster between amateurs and become a reason to make them matured grown-ups!

~ Sujit Lalwani

..we all have to do things in this life that we don't like..

~ Marlene Van Niekerk

That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.

~ Patrick Ness

Let me tell you: the only way to get rid of dragons is to have one of your own.

~ Evgeny Shvarts

Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

~ Diana Palmer

Reputation Is Temporary..As Much as The Man Owning Your Reputation Is

~ Sujit Lalwani

I wish the army had taught us how to navigate feelings as easily as they did a starless night sky.

~ Sherri L. Smith

And what went wrong when other alchemists tried to make gold and were unable to do so?They were looking only for gold his companion answered. They were seeking the treasure of their personal legend, without wanting actually to live out the personal legend.

~ Paulo Coelho

Once when I was a little child of six or so, I watched a spider spinning its web in a corner of the house. Before the spider had even finished its job, a mosquito flew right into the web and was trapped there. The spider didn't pay it any attention at first, but went on with what it was doing; only when it was finished did it creep over on its pointy toes and sting that poor mosquito to death. As I sat there on that wooden floor and watched Hatsumomo come reaching for me with her delicate fingers, I knew I was trapped in a web she had spun for me.

~ Arthur Golden

Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.

~ Florida Scott-Maxwell

...I realize that lessons are meant to be learned, honored even, or else you can spend your life running so far from them that you erect a false existence around the very thing you should be embracing.

~ Allison Winn Scotch

You doan go diggin' for gold in an outhouse.

~ Sandra Hill

Being a reader has brought me much joy, laughter, and rich experience. But reading has also wounded me. The sacrament of reading has plowed me open and sown seeds of empathy that have taken root in deep soil. Over the years, reading has caused me to grow from a shallow, self-absorbed youth to one who seeks out the pain of the world. Reading has burdened me with the welfare of my fellow human, but sometimes the burden proves too heavy for my narrow shoulders.

~ Steve Kendall

You always lose a lot of money chasing after women, but you will never lose a lot of women chasing after money

~ Foster Raul Mkhabele