Life Quotes

People seemed to have two different selves—an experiencing self who endures every moment equally and a remembering self who gives almost all the weight of judgment afterward to two single points in time, the worst moment and the last one. The remembering self seems to stick to the Peak-End rule even when the ending is an anomaly. Just a few minutes without pain at the end of their medical procedure dramatically reduced patients’ overall pain ratings even after they’d experienced more than half an hour of high level of pain. “That wasn’t so terrible,” they’d reported afterward. A bad ending skewed the pain scores upward just as dramatically.

~ Atul Gawande

I guess no one can be painted with just one brush. There is light and shade in all of us, pain and hardship, and some of us rise from it while others are darkened by it.

~ Catherine Doyle

Let it go and learn from the process.

~ Nash

Love is about heartbreak, If you think it’s fulfillment, happiness, satisfaction, union, it's even more heartbreak.

~ Glenn Hefley

The best part about turning to the dark side of you, it sets you free.

~ Neetesh Dixit

YOU MIGHT LEAVE ME FOR MY BETTER OR WORST, BUT FOR ME, I WANNA LIVE WITH YOU FOR OUR BETTER AND WORST.

~ Azmara Veera

I have these knives in my chest that can't become words.

~ Jenim Dibie

Life is too short to miss out on anything, even if it's pain.

~ J.t. Geissinger

If the pain is not felt or it doesn't hurt you...it can never change you. Being susceptible to pain is a blessing.

~ Mamur Mustapha

until it is taken out of your mind, it is never lost and it is never gone

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Instantaneous forgiveness can bring longstanding self-preservation, not to mention a cheaper Ralph's bill on Rolaids.

~ Ace Antonio Hall

If you read stories, you find the strength, faith and hope to survive everyday life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

No matter what happens, you can make it. Like a fist tightened as hard as possible, you can always apply more.

~ Ace Antonio Hall

If you focus on bitterness, you destroy your life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Pain strengthens and failure teaches us the proper way to do things.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.

~ Winston Graham

With positive attitude and persistent endurance, you can overcome any challenge.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Without faith and hope, how could we have survived life?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The anchor of my life is the grace of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You suffer alone. And rejoice with many.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You ask me to write you a poem,I pen you an empty ocean,You run away.You ask me who I am,I paint you a breaking sky,You weep in the rain.

~ Jenim Dibie

Forgive and be happy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your blessings far outweigh your bitterness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I wish she could see how it hits him. The look on his face, his life caving in. Because then maybe she’d realize, if only for a split second, that even though the world doesn’t matter to her, she matters to the world.

~ David Levithan

Life is pain. War is change. The raw materials of life hammered and shaped into something with a purpose.

~ James A. Moore

But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the rock.

~ Hans Christian Andersen

Sometimes it's the memories we should have had that are most painful.

~ Valynne E. Maetani

Don't allow unforgiveness to make you unhappy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I shall overcome any obscuration.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We can only diffuse kindness, to the souls filled with bitterness. This is the greatest deeds to awaken their good spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not waste your life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

No one can understand your pain until they experience it. Stop trying to explain.

~ Kemi Sogunle

The fullness of existence is the experience of joy and sorrow, good times and dark times, pain and healing..

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We cry to release the soul of its pain.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Forget the past! Look straight ahead with great hope.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope makes life worth living.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Tell me, who have never be knocked down by life’s circumstances? It takes grace and enough strength, to get up and begin again

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have lived in the shadow of loss—the kind of loss that can paralyze you forever.I have grieved like a professional mourner—in every waking moment, draining every ounce of my life force.I died—without leaving my body.But I came back, and now it’s your turn.I have learned to remember my past—without living in it.I am strong, electric, and alive, because I chose to dance, to laugh, to love, and tolive again.I have learned that you can’t re-create the life you once had—you have toreinvent a life for yourself.And that reinvention is a gift, not a curse.I believe your future self is a work of art and that science can help you create it. If you’re lost . . . if you’re gone . . . if you can barely absorb the words on thispage . . . I want you to hold this truth in your heart: when it’s your time to go, you won’t wish you had spent more time grieving; you’ll wish you had spent more time living.That’s why I’m here. And why you are, too. Let’s live like our lives depend on it.

~ Christina Rasmussen

Challenges are part of life;We weaken our spirit, when we act in fear and lose hope.But we strengthen our spirit, when we fearlessly with faith and hope, rise up to meet and conquer the challenges.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If there is anything certain in life, it is this. Time doesn't always heal. Not really. I know they say it does, but that is not true. What time does is to trick you into believing that you have healed, that the hurt of a great loss has lessened. But a single word, a note of a song, a fragrance, a knife point of dawn light across an empty room, any one of these things will take you back to that one moment you have never truly forgotten. These small things are the agents of memory. They are the sharp needle points piercing the living fabric of your life.Life, my children, isn't linear where the heart is concerned. It is filled with invisible threads that reach out from your past and into your future. These threads connect every second we have lived and breathed. As your own lives move forward and as the decades pass, the more of these threads are cast. Your task is to weave them into a tapestry, one that tells the story of the time we shared.

~ Stephen Lee