Life Quotes

Unleash your potential. Seek the opportunity to make a difference. Success is attainable. You just have to reach out and grab it.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

In order to be authentic, you have to make decisions based on what you want, rather than how it will be perceived.

~ Shannon L. Alder

But Viv, if I've learned anything at all in the last eight years of my life? It's that people just like to tell themselves stories about where they came from. They can't help themselves. They don't trust the world around them--it's too good for them, or not good enough--so they tell themselves stories about it. They tell themselves an old magician who lives up in the sky made them out of clay and put them here until whenever he makes up his mind to take them out again. Your parents didn't like their creation myth, that's all--it had pain in it, and chaos, and their own parents were ashamed. So they told themselves a story that was at least partially true: about two good people who deserved happy lives. And probably at some point they started to believe that story. But the thing is, really, that it doesn't matter. For your parents or anyone else. It doesn't actually matter where we came from, or where we're going, or when. The only thing that matters is what we have to do while we're here and how well we do it.

~ Katie Coyle

Happiness is an art and the one who knows this art lives happily even if they don't have anything.

~ Raaz Ojha

It's not in the life, it's in the living.

~ Raheel Farooq

I honor the divine on a daily basis, but I want to know that the greatest magick in my life is living authentically with what I have and can do.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Program your life the way you want it to be: don't waste the unuse energy that lodges in the matrix of your soul. You are transcendent, be a superintendent.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

And so I've written everything down, too afraid of my demons and what they may say, the doubt that eats at me from the inside. Too afraid that I'll forget and it'll all be a madwoman's dream.

~ Nadège Richards

People will doubt you, but do you doubt your own self? People will insult your integrity, but do you trust yourself? If you are at peace with yourself and with God, you can be at peace with the world.

~ Nana Awere Damoah

Many of us are reactive, not proactive. We react. We hit back. We are ‘an eye for an eye’ practitioners. We attack when we are attacked, with good measure. Our barometer reads from the environment and makes us act accordingly. We are mirrors who reflect the anger in others, the bad attitude in the other person, the negative comments of others. Let me show you a higher level of living.

~ Nana Awere Damoah

Whenever you get an appetite, you feed yourself. Therefore, fill your belly on wisdom of things old and new. Only swallow the truth, less you choke on the lies.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Your thoughts are certain kinds of seeds in your life. You can water them and allow them to grow on fertile soil. Or, you can let them diminish and wither amongst the weeds. Be careful that your seeds are not contaminated as they begin to take root.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

I feel life trembling within me, in my tongue, on the soles of my feet, in my desire or my suffering, I want my soul to be a wandering thing, able to move back into a hundred forms, I want to dream myself into priests and wanderers, female cooks and murderers, children and animals, and, more than anything else, birds and trees; that is necessary, I want it, I need it so I can go on living, and if sometime I were to lose these possibilities and be caught in so-called reality, then I would rather die.

~ Hermann Hesse

Within each of us there is an Owl, a Rabbit, an Eeyore, and a Pooh. For too long, we have chosen the way of Owl and Rabbit. Now, like Eeyore, we complain about the results. But that accomplishes nothing. If we are smart, we will choose the way of Pooh. As if from far away, it calls to us with the voice of a child's mind. It may be hard to hear at times, but it is important just the same, because without it, we will never find our way through the forest.

~ Benjamin Hoff

Always do good when you're tempted to do evil. The reward in doing good is priceless.

~ Kemi Sogunle

If you are reading this, be sure to count this on your blessings list.

~ Anthony Liccione

What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.

~ Criss Jami

He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, I have lived.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Life is given to us to be lived...Most of us spend an entire lifetime preparing to live. What is it that you are doing ...LIVING or PREPARING TO LIVE at some point ! Are you waiting for the IF AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS or Are you living NOW ! A thought that changed my life forever !!

~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

To take this one shot at life and live it with God is to take this one shot and have it reverberate across and around my world as if it were a million shots and more.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Life is always moving...often without realization...just like in an Aeroplane which feels like we are not moving at all...but we know its flying at few hundred miles an hour, many thousand feet above sea level!!!

~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

If you weren't built for this life, you'd be dead by now. i think the problem is people don't share enough of their pain with the world, so they never know who else is in pain, too, and what others are going through. we're never really alone in anything.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Those things that inspire, enthuse, and compel you should consume your life.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.

~ Haruki Murakami

I am a complicated person with a simple life.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

If you live life so cautiously as to never fail, you end up failing at life itself.

~ J.s.b. Morse

And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles, he has not lived long – he has existed long. For what if you should think that man had had a long voyage who had been caught by a fierce storm as soon as he left harbour, and, swept hither and thither by a succession of winds that raged from different quarters, had been driven in a circle around the same course? Not much voyaging did he have, but much tossing about.

~ Seneca

Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Whoever lives wins. Don't feel guilty about having survived. If you have time to be feeling guilty, work on living a day longer, a minute longer. And once in a while, remember the ones that died before you. That's good enough.Vol 1 Chap 4

~ Atsuko Asano

He was in the right place. He was living his best life. How many other people in the multiverse could say that?

~ Lev Grossman

My art, my greatest art, is the skill to live within me.

~ Alireza Salehi Nejad

Those who know who one should die knew how one should live.

~ Alireza Salehi Nejad

In this world and the hereafter, we should not be afraid of no one but ourselves.

~ Alireza Salehi Nejad

One dies the way he lives.

~ Alireza Salehi Nejad

If you want to live a godly life, then choose to put the things into your mind that lead to living a godly life.

~ Elizabeth George

Don't regret, just celebrate your knowledge and wisdom. Life isn't about an easygoing sheltered heaven, it's about living.

~ Rola Mahmoud

Life is about mindfulness. It's about being in the moment, being aware.

~ Katie Kacvinsky

What separated the living from one another could be as impenetrable as whatever barrier separated the living from the dead.

~ Joshua Ferris

One day I decided that existing simply did not work for me, and that was when I began to live.

~ Sai Marie Johnson

When I look back on history, and think about the ‘great depression’- when men, women and children starved- I’ve often wondered why people fell back to Government and money. That was the issue (after-all). Perhaps people believed that they were powerless... People had skills, to continue doing things like farming, building.. helping each other- coming together. But I think that they didn’t see that they had power, because they had been told that they didn’t.When you think about the power that people have (especially today), you can see that if something (like the collapse of banks) were to happen, we would all be perfectly okay. We still have inventors, builders, farmers, gardeners, entertainers, doctors, barristas, sports people, writers, etc. They don’t disappear. We could simply just go on, do what we love, and not worry about income from those pursuits. And everyone would be okay. Probably better, in-fact. No worry about paying bills, or affording things we want (or need). Too bad that people (during the depression) never thought to do that. But then again. What’s that saying?‘Hindsight is 20/20’....From the third book in the I Am... Subject to change without notice series, by Cheri Bauer

~ Cheri Bauer