Life Lessons Quotes

You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.

~ Shaun Hick

If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go—whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Make the most of what you have and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You have come a long way and have won many battles. Whenever you’re faced with a difficult or challenging situation, you’ll overcome it. Yes, you can.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for.

~ Roy T. Bennett

One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Most people enjoy those rare moments when others make them feel important. It is one of the deepest human desires.

~ Roy T. Bennett

I was lost yesterday, I am found today and I will be forgotten tomorrow.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

~ Red Haircrow

What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made.

~ Alice Bag

You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.

~ Amit Ray

Integrity is doing what is right and truthful, and doing as you say you would do.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Know who you are, and be it. Know what you want, and go out and get it!

~ Carroll Bryant

The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Every challenge you face today makes you stronger tomorrow. The challenge of life is intended to make you better, not bitter.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Love changes things, hope allows us to endure until the change arrives.

~ Iimani David

I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I sort of clung and did everything possible to keep someone around. I didn't have a hard talk with myself about who I was keeping around. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. I clung to people like human life preservers. I thought i'd die if someone left me. Its ironic because now I'm the one who's leaving.

~ Deb Caletti

One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything.

~ Beverly Donofrio

The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Be the kind of person who dares to face life's challenges and overcome them rather than dodging them.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Do good, live in the most positive and joyful way possible every day.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Until you change how you get things done, you'll never know what works best.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Dedicate yourself to what gives your life true meaning and purpose, make a positive difference in someone's life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

I welcome questions. I hate assumptions.

~ Red Haircrow

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

~ Steve Maraboli

But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope.

~ Emily Maguire

The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing?

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.

~ Joelle Charbonneau

Life may not be pretty but it's always beautiful. We may only see the ugliness on the surface. The shit that only the world chooses to notice. But, if we dig deep, if we get to the heart of life, where there's no pain or fear, where we can just be who we are and love freely without judgement, it's really beautiful.

~ S.l. Jennings

Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done.

~ Derek Landy

I like to believe that you don't need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don't go the way we might like them to, it's a sign from above that something even better is right around the corner.

~ David Archuleta

Never let fear hold you captive. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. Never let frustration hold you captive.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Goals are the road maps that guide you to your destination. Cultivate the habit of setting clearly-defined written goals, they are the road maps that guide you to your destination.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly…but merely to be LIVED. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically LIVED.

~ Mandy Hale

We all have negative thoughts now and then, but we can choose not to dwell there and not to let them control us.

~ Roy T. Bennett

People are successful because they think and act like successful people.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Life is an experiment in which you may fail or succeed. Explore more, expect least.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Instead of complaining about the problem and blaming others, start finding the solution.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Be patient and open-minded in your interactions with others, find the positive attributes that they possess.

~ Roy T. Bennett

One word of encouragement can be enough to spark someone’s motivation to continue with a difficult challenge.

~ Roy T. Bennett