Life Quotes

In situations where I feel unclear or I do not know what to say or do, I turn my attention within myself. Then I listen to what my intuition and to what Existence within myself wants in this moment. Through listening within in this way, an answer often comes in the form of a creative and authentic impulse to say or do something or simply being silent until Existence is ready to respond.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

The choice in this life is not between easy and hard, but between kinds of hardship, between a hardship that gives birth to wisdom, compassion and mercy, and the hardship that keeps on replicating itself to no end.

~ Noam Shpancer

George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength.

~ Christopher Isherwood

That's a good attitude. You should hate me more, curse me more, and detest me! Then you should take the power of that hatred and use it to survive this rotten world.

~ Hideaki Sorachi

The image that comes to mind is a boxing ring. There are times when...you just want that bell to ring, but you're the one who's losing. The one who's winning doesn't have that feeling. Do you have the energy and strength to face life? Life can ask more of you than you are willing to give. And then you say, 'Life is not something that should have been. I'm not going to play the game. I'm going to meditate. I'm going to call out.'There are three positions possible. One is the up-to-it, and facing the game and playing through. The second is saying, Absolutely not. I don't want to stay in this dogfight. That's the absolute out. The third position is the one that says, This is mixed of good and evil. I'm on the side of the good. I accept the world with corrections. And may [the world] be the way I like it. And it's good for me and my friends. There are only the three positions.

~ Joseph Campbell

It's only as bad as you make it.

~ Benjamin J. Carey

You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself

~ Ken Kesey

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals

~ Mario Puzo

Coercing attitude drains your strength.

~ Toba Beta

You want to live?Yes!Then quit thinking you're gonna die!

~ Laurel Dewey

1. The troubled times that you go through are not meant to break you, instead they are meant to show you the hidden strength that lies within. It is at times like this when you thought you are broke that you suddenly discover that you have a pile of cash stashed away which you had completely forgotten about. Draw upon those hidden reserves that you never knew existed and come out stronger from the experience. It is your ability to brave the storm that is more important.

~ Latika Teotia

Not all men are handsome and strong. There are some who are cowards from birth. There are some who are weak by nature. There are even some who cry easily. But for such a man, a man both weak and cowardly, to bear the burden of his weakness and struggle valiantly to live a beautiful life-- that's what I call great. The reason I'm so fond of Gaston is not because he has a strong will or a good head. Rather it's because, weakling and coward that he is, he keeps on fighting in his own way.

~ Shūsaku Endō

No matter what, if you have the strength of life, it is enough to be thankful.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with majesty and exaltation. And those who come together in the nights and are entwined in rocking delight perform a solemn task and gather sweetness, depth, and strength for the song of some future poet, who will appear in order to say ecstasies that are unsayable.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

The world doesn’t change because the sun sets and rises. We can either adapt to survive our circumstance or we can change it. And I know we can’t control fate, but I’m sure not going to spend whatever time I have left sitting around and waiting for my life to get better.

~ Caroline George

To have wisdom whilst young, to have strength whilst old, therein lies the secret to life on earth

~ Paddick Van Zyl

If a man realizes who he is, he is confident of his strength

~ Sunday Adelaja

Never to whine; to accept what came; to wait for better; to take what you could; to let no one, not even yourself, know how near to giving in you were.

~ Robin Jenkins

I love connecting with people who have been through the fire and come out stronger and wiser. Using their experiences to inspire and empower others. Those are my people.

~ Steve Maraboli

When illness and old age are no longer indulgent and strength is irrevocably seeping away, brightness fades insidiously away from the light of the day and time only betrays reckless evanescence. (“Into a new life”)

~ Erik Pevernagie

I thank God for supply me with my deepest needs, a life of love with graceful strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It is not how easily they jump at a noise or how quick they are to show emotion. It's how they make use of what life has shown them.

~ Brandon Sanderson

My strengths propel me and my weaknesses pursue me.

~ Sudheer Reddy

All that I can truly have: life, strength and time!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You embody the strength of 10,000 moons and your life will be a testament of it. Ase

~ Kierra C.t. Banks

Self realization of strengths and weaknesses is the first step towards salvation.

~ Mayank S. Sengar

I believe i am hard as a stone, but even a stone breaks if you smash it real hard.....

~ Andy Flynn

He was handsome and strong, but somehow that wasn't enough for him. He also felt the need to be tough and inured to hardship... But how was he to come by that quality in this luminous garden, where all manner of fruit was to be had for the picking?

~ Michael Ende

His life-experiences, and reflections upon them, led Y to believe that the most difficult challenge in life was how to be kind, yet strong. ‘To be kind is not enough,’ he would say. ‘You have to be strong to give to others, and strong to withstand life’s fluctuating fortunes.

~ Arnold Zable

It is not easy to let go, but when you do; not only do you realize the strength that lies within you, you also create an opportunity to see God perform the best of miracles in your life.

~ Gugu Mona

Life has pounded me downand thrashed me around,Time and time again,But I always get right back up,Because I still love life -Just as the earth still lovesThe rain.

~ Suzy Kassem

Do not waste your life over working. Live a fuller sacred life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The strength of survival in life lies in strong-minded soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every sphere of life demands enduring spirit and strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

With strong heart, you will survive life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The tests we face in life's journey are not to reveal our weaknesses but to help us discover our inner strengths. We can only know how strong we are when we strive and thrive beyond the challenges we face.

~ Kemi Sogunle

You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

Run the race of life with your sacred strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

That's the thing about rocks--they don't break easily. When I held them, I wanted to be like them-strong and steady, weathered but not broken.

~ Ellen Dreyer