Life Lessons Quotes

People are less quick to applaud you as you grow older. Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

~ Sloane Crosley

In as much time as it takes to smoke a cigarette, a person's life was changed forever.

~ Karen Mcquestion

one is good but ten is better. together is a powerful, beautiful, and peaceful.

~ B. Armynanta

But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface.

~ Robertson Davies

The present is a point just passed.

~ David Russell

Love thy neighbor yes, but love thyself first.

~ Solange Nicole

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

~ Chris Bohjalian

A day of Rest is always needed.

~ Solange Nicole

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

~ Tokugawa Iehiro

Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that’s not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end.

~ Philip Pullman

When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win. -Henny Youngman, comedian and violinist (1906-1998)

~ Henny Youngman

I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anything definable. It was just another happening like today's luncheon, something I got into and got out of. And it reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonably well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen from end to end and arrive at the back door hungry.

~ Wallace Stegner

Your mistake is that you've concluded life is short, so you treat it as if it's precious, like a pretty little princess. Bullshit! Everyone's life is short. Quit feeling sorry for yourself. Fuck it. Treat it like a cheap hooker. Ask crazy shit from it, and you'll get more out of life than you could have ever wanted, imagined, or deserved.

~ Ty Roth

... time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place, we advance, stop, and retreat according to his orders, our mistake lies in imagining that we can catch him out.

~ José Saramago

Love is all that awaits you.

~ Howard Falco

Life is a miracle. We, all of us are creator beings. We are the joyful choice makers.

~ Sakshi Chetana

She understood that Simon was a disappointed man if he needed, at ths age, to tell her he had pitied her for years.

~ Elizabeth Strout

Sometimes the worst-tasting crap is the best for you.

~ Michael Harmon

And that's what we'll do every day. If you or your friends spray-paint obscenities on our walls, we'll scrub them off, and the people will come. if you break our windows, we'll fix them, and the people will come. If you hurt us, we'll wash off the blood, slap on some bandages and the people will come...any wound you inflict, we'll stitch up. We're not going to stop, no matter what you do. This work is too important. Too many lives are at stake.

~ Robert J. Wiersema

Not soon, as late as the approach of my ninetieth year, I felt a door opening in me and I entered the clarity of early morning. One after another my former lives were departing, like ships, together with their sorrow. And the countries, cities, gardens, the bays of seas assigned to my brush came closer, ready now to be described better than they were before.

~ Czesław Miłosz

I learned that ruling poor men's hands is nothing. Ruling men's money's a wedge in the world. But after I'd split it open a crack I looked in and saw the trick inside it, the filthy nothing, the fooled and rotten faces of rich and successful men.

~ Robinson Jeffers

Every day, sincerely and without phoniness, Lou demonstrated by his actions how very vital it is - more than anything else - to understand and appreciate the people who work with you....Do your job well, learn your job well, but always remember that the people you work with are your most valuable asset. Embrace them. Honor them. Respect them (206) Prescriptions for Success by John Schuerholz

~ Denzel Washington

He taught us that everyone has a good story and the more of others you understand, the better your grasp of human nature, a gift given great weight in my family (73). - Bill Clinton, Paying Attention

~ Denzel Washington

Danny: I’m a bit jealous, Sheila.Sheila: Are you, my dear? What on earth for?Danny: Well, because you’ve really lived, Sheila.Sheila: Of course I have, Daniel. What else is life for?

~ Louise Wener

Flow, I must remind you here is a being-systemic process. Depression is a being-systemic deregulation that affects the neurophysiological.

~ Dew Platt

It isn’t fair, but maybe that’s the whole point. Fairness has no part in real life, and she took that lesson away from the Hotel Angeline with her.

~ Susan Wiggs

I abandoned the assigned problems in standard calculus textbooks and followed my curiosity. Wherever I happened to be--a Vegas casino, Disneyland, surfing in Hawaii, or sweating on the elliptical in Boesel's Green Microgym--I asked myself, Where is the calculus in this experience?

~ Jennifer Ouellette

I was born not to die but to live and never born.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Adrien Bach, main character from The Maker:You know, when you’re a kid, you think you’re going to grow up to be something special, do something important. You’re not going to be a regular Joe like everybody else. But then you get out there and life starts to hit you. It hits you so many times, eventually you just can’t get up anymore. Or won’t. And then you just don’t know. Those dreams seem to fade away, and suddenly you’re not sure who you are anymore.

~ Wes Moore

Your mama coming back. Just cause you cant sees a person aint mean nothing. They still there. You worry you never gonna find your mama but she gonna come to you. Close your eyes. I bets you see her good.

~ Nancy Rawles

I don't have the heart to tell him that's the wrong way to think about the world. There will always be more questions Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

~ David Levithan

We can’t help the way we’re born. We can’t help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves

~ Leigh Bardugo

The river of emotions will almost always over-run the barrage of logic.

~ Wasif Minhas

Life grows too quickly it quickly turns into memories.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

It is better to be slave to righteousness than slave to sin.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To reject the word of God is to rebel against righteous life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I wouldn't doubt it for a second if any of these literature teachers had a hand-sculpted custom-made replica of Shakespeare's dick.

~ Eliza Gubbins

Whenever I am sad and depressed; whenever I cry tears of pain or frustration I ask my little heart, why do I cry. Why does this emotion overtake me time and again. Then a little voice from within say that it’s OK to cry once in a while. If you’ve been hurt, it’s better to cry yourself to calmness, to console yourself instead of retaliating. These tears make me human instead of becoming a hard hearted person. Tears retain the innocent being within me. So tears are my biggest strength, they are my best friends…

~ Latika Teotia

People who fill you with positivity, who make us see the brighter side of life are our best friends. Cultivate them, hang on to them and never let them go.

~ Latika Teotia

Life, to me, is like fishing: you won’t catch anything until you start, and every year you get older is another year the fish might slip through the net.

~ Alex Staniforth