Life Lessons Quotes

The tree of life is hope.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If we listen, we shall learn.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't regret anything I've ever done in life, any choice that I've made. But I'm consumed with regret for the things I didn't do, the choices I didn't make, the things I didn't say. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have to answer to. What if... If only...I wonder what would have... You will never, never know, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days.

~ Trevor Noah

The root of corruption is lack of contentment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Take it easy. Live life- one day at a time. It is only when we add the regrets of 'yesterday' and worries of the 'future' to the 'present' that we end up complicating things...

~ Anurag Shourie

It´s like you get started in one direction and pick up speed, and you may forget where you´re going and why,but the momentum takes you there anyway. Only, you find out when you arrive that it isn´t where you wanted to be.

~ Barbara Delinsky

Out of the fires of refinement, come the praise of His magnificence, the brilliance of His glory, and the honor of His precious Son, Jesus Christ.

~ Robin Bertram

God sees Himself in the eyes of the refined soul.

~ Robin Bertram

God is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. He is intricately involved in our lives and for that alone, we should be thankful.

~ Robin Bertram

You must not love yourself. I’ll tell you, mademoiselle … your life belongs to you. Only a matter of treating your life a little better and maybe life would treat you better in return.

~ Maria La Serra

If you want your dream to come true, you must do a lot of work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I write because there is a madness within me to express my thoughts in words. I write because I feel passionately about certain feelings and there is this yearning within me to express these feelings in words. I am not comfortable meeting a lot of people. I like solitude. I like thinking and I dont like talking much.

~ Avijeet Das

So, the rationale of having written this book is to say an inspiring word to a lot of people who are hurting, crying and sounding defeatist, an inspiring word to millions of people who are living in pain and indigence. I wrote it for a young chap who hopes there is no life after death so that he can finally rest, for a dejected ailing woman who thinks God enjoys torturing her and for some hopeless lad who threatens his friends he’d shoot himself. I wrote it for them and for myself.

~ Boniface Sagini

Grades are still important, buy they are not the most important things. As clichéd as it is, the things you learn outside class is more important than the textbooks you blindly memorize in time for exams.

~ Marcella Purnama

Rekindle the flame of love in thy heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

With the grace of hopeful heart, you can overcome emotional shocks.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It's a process.

~ Mommy Moo Moo

The most important lessons are learned during the process. Pay attention to the process.

~ Kemi Sogunle

When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost.

~ Stephen King

Breathe in, take what life hands you; hold it, accept it; breathe out, let it go.

~ Susan Gable

Choose who to cheer for you, not chase who is cheering for you!

~ Zal

You gain much more from your enemies than friends.

~ Haresh Sippy

Don’t be afraid of what could happen or that you may end up in pain if you took a chance on love or life. If you don’t take the plunge you may lead a safe life but it will be drab one. Life is too short to let it just pass by. Grab those short but beautiful moments which may lead to lifetime memories. As Garth Brooks famously sang, “I could have missed the pain but I’d have had to miss the dance.

~ Latika Teotia

Let go of the pain. But never forget the past lessons.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The pathos of the human life teaches one that idolatry of the ego is a sham. Only by living in harmonious accord with the entire world can a person distill happiness that flows from cultivating a state of mindfulness.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Keep your heart pure. Overlook an insult.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It's easier to face the camera than life. As in the former the script is known.

~ Haresh Sippy

Life is a tightrope walk. One has to balance the do's and don'ts.

~ Haresh Sippy

Do not take to heart everything you hear.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Only when you connect with yourself do you interact with the beyond.

~ Tapan Ghosh

Life is plain. But never a pain.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Count every moment of existence as a miracle.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The aim of all life is death. Life is the apprenticeship that we serve preparing for death. Life is the fleeting spark of divinity that precedes a deathless eternity.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

There is more than one road to spiritual salvation. We discover a philosophical way of living by encountering the world, culling knowledge from all available resources, and thinking reverently about life.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Cannot put a finger on what precedes the other, bachelor/spinsterhood or self-obsession.

~ Sandeep Sahajpal

Had life not given me reasons to grieve, I would never have known the healing power of a hug.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Why do we do so few when we can do so much?

~ Gabrielle Dubois

life is awesome

~ Sedonia Guillone

Once you've found some joy, you never want to be without it.

~ Alec Baldwin

there was nothing to be ashamed of in doing jobs simply to make a living, so long as those jobs fueled other creative efforts

~ Alec Baldwin