Life Lessons Quotes

That moment you realize you are doing the right thing for the wrong reasons and the wrong thing for the right reasons.

~ Christy Hall

What you really want is all too often hidden just behind what you think you want.

~ Christy Hall

I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them.

~ Walter Farley

Life is just a lot of everyday adventures.

~ Carol Ryrie Brink

Capture yesterday's moments,they are future memories

~ Penwell Chiloane

... But if I spend [all] my time *reading* about adventures, I won't actually be *having* them.

~ Lisa Kleypas

Petals don't ask Where to landThey just fall With grace.

~ Sheniz Janmohamed

We have another chance to navigate, perhaps in a slightly different way than we did yesterday. We cannot go back. But we can learn.

~ Jeffrey R. Anderson

Who can resist when destiny calls?

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

In some mystical way, Lenny seemed to ennoble work more than anyone I had ever metAlso in Stories and Scripts:an Anthology

~ Zack Love

Oh no. I'm not gonna let you leave yet. I'm gonna show you the value of takin' your time to get to work. I probably should have done this a long time ago.

~ Zack Love

I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the 'duties' of my birth and position. It was only when fate granted that to me that I realized the cost of it. I could set aside my responsibilities to others and live my life as I please only when I also severed my ties to them. I could not have it both ways.

~ Robin Hobb

The long years had taught him that everything worked itself out given enough time, and some things would always be the way fate wished them to be.

~ Michelle M. Pillow

One has to be at least as ancient as I am now to see that if you try to make sense of life, if you look for patterns and meaning, not only are you bound to be disappointed, you are likely to waste a good deal of precious time.

~ Andrew Levkoff

People are always quick to call evil what they do not know. The unknown sprouts fear. It spreads like an infection, burrowing into every facet of their lives. They need a scapegoat, someone to blame. Fingers are pointed, accusations are made, and a target lands on somebody’s back. They grow angry. They turn violent.To history, human nature must be a stubborn and tiring student. No matter how many times history tries to show it the error of its ways, it never learns from its mistakes.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

Get married because you can’t imagine another day without talking with that person, because that person makes your day sunnier. Don’t get married because you don’t want to be alone.

~ Lynne Silver

Not everything worth learning is summarized in book. Sometimes you've got to rely on instincts.

~ Samanthe Beck

Sometimes the journey to love involves some bumpy detours, as any girl with an - ex-fiance will tell you. But I've learned a smooth trip isn't particularly important. Getting there is what matters.

~ Samanthe Beck

God is not an Almighty Being watching over life on earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness.

~ Abhijit Naskar

No wonder many people dare not look closely at life: It's a horrible sight.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.

~ Justin Alcala

You play the hand you’re dealt. You play it without false hope or despair, without comparing other people’s hand, or questioning why you’ve got this hand, you just play it, as best you can, today, and the next day, and the day after that.

~ Lindsey O'connor

Knowledge evolves, understanding matures & wisdom progresses.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

Certain things are extremely difficult to understand, such as the concept of unconditional love, perhaps it is due to mislead thoughts about God’s love for us. Assuming that we can say or do certain things and suddenly lose this love and approval. But I when I picture God I picture him standing with his arms out saying, Beth stop punishing yourself. And he says it like my dad used to say, with such great authority and assurance in his voice that I can't help but smile, and know it's gonna be ok.

~ Bethany Brookbank

if only you could see through my eyes at the life that I've lived and if only you could think through my thoughts & hear every word that was said and seen and how it made me feel as all of those words were forced down my ears and stabbed in my chest were my heart used to be.. then and only then would you know why I hide myself so deep in the dark parts of the abyss that became my home and its the place where I can go where my heart is safe from a world that didn't care if my feelings were hurt or if they loved me for what I'm not or tried to kill me for not being their carbon copy illusion of what they thought was normal and if only you walked along side of me through it all then you would understand my choices & not hate my mistakes.

~ John Speigle

Some things are more than we can understand.

~ Christie Watson

I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

There is an opportunity cost in every action.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Any action is good action, do what you can from where you are and build off of that action each day.

~ Mike Basevic

Stay committed to staying focused and take action that is in line with what you want.

~ Mike Basevic

It's our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.

~ Karen Marie Moning

Okay, so he wasn't dreaming anymore, but did this fall into same song second verse? He would just have to play this out and see what happened.

~ Kindle Alexander

All of us at one point end face up in a ditch, but only a few will choose to look up at the stars and dream.

~ Shannon L. Alder

My life is filled with buckets of tears; thousands of people shouting in my ears; the humming and chirping of hundreds of Himalayan birds, which are irresistible to hear.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Not all that have fallen are vanquished.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

The best advice comes from the one who has made more mistakes– they have learned great lessons! The one who always got it right has surely not lived through the entire experience.

~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

As I walk I mediate on the word of God. It comforts me.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

no-one would want to go through a traumatic experience but when you’ve survived something life-shattering and risen above it, you achieve a kind of serenity.

~ Jane Wilson-Howarth

In my experience, the biggest reason people struggle to get where they want to be is guilt. Guilt that they have let someone down, and also guilt that they are about to leave someone they love ...behind.

~ Bethany Brookbank

Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual passers-by. Experience is an armour.

~ Hilary Mantel