Life Quotes

Experience has taught me that there are some situations in which it's better to keep quiet. That is, I tried to keep quiet. Life gives me good advice, but sometimes I refuse to take it.

~ Etgar Keret

Life is beyond self.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

He thought about how the camera makes one fall in love with an image of oneself, and perpetuates a false reality.

~ Ben Okri

Empathy is a quality today that we need more than ever. Throughout his life Jesus showed empathy and care for others on a level never seen before. From him we learn that Gods ways of service to others before obsession with self is the path he wants us to walk on and deep down we know it.

~ Tim Crawshaw

I lived willy-nilly. Without any sense of being part of the order of things. I lived by fragments, pieces, scraps, in the moment, at random, from incident to incident, as if buffeted by ebb and flow. Oftentimes I had the impression that someone had torn the majority of pages out of the book of my life, because they were empty, or because they belonged not to me but to someone else’s life.

~ Wiesław Myśliwski

Don’t be defined by someone else’s definition of you.

~ Toni Sorenson

There is no God besides the Self. One who knows the Self, knows God.

~ Abhijit Naskar

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, only you.

~ Carol Grace

Yes, the same God who created all the universes created you as a one-of-a-kind. He knows you and loves you and commands you to love yourself.

~ Toni Sorenson

But there was in the air that kind of distortion that bent you a little; it caused your usual self to grow slippery, to wander off and shop, to get blurry, bleed, bevel with possibility.

~ Lorrie Moore

How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it.

~ G.k. Chesterton

At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment.

~ Thomas Mann

Here we come upon the old, old craze of the world, which has not yet learned to do without clericalism--that to live and work *for an idea*is man's calling, and according to the faithfulness its fulfilment his *human worth* is measured

~ Max Stirner

The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

And I went into the new year loving myself a little less, but a little more where it actually mattered.

~ Dominic Riccitello

The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute before. She was the sort of person, Tommy thought, who might know a great deal more than she chose to reveal.

~ Agatha Christie

You are a sacred-being.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You'll never understand me as long as you're looking at me through society's lenses.

~ Robert Tew

There's more than one way to be a person. Actually, there are more than two or three ways. You'd think that was obvious, but I find that often it is not. The world is essentially a collection of teams. Life is a process of deciding which ones we're going to join.

~ Meghan Daum

Your life is a divine self.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I glean from my senses, most I thirst for.

~ Erri De Luca

For life, too, is only an instant,Only the dissolving of ourselvesIn the selves of all othersAs if bestowing a gift –

~ Boris Pasternak

The more you die to self on daily basis, the more you enjoy life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

for meobedience to another is the decayof self

~ Charles Bukowski

We only betray ourselves. No one is betrayed except by himself. One way to betray yourself is to try to be too many people at once.How many people should a person try to be in your opinion?One at the most. Most people don't even succeed in that.

~ Macdonald Harris

I’m a bit-part actor in my own life

~ Johnny Rich

Love worth giving is love perfected on ourselves.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

See the Divinity in others and you will find it within yourself.

~ Ka Chinery

If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel yourself – not as a stranger in the world, not as something here unprobational, not as something that has arrived here by fluke - but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.

~ Alan W. Watts

I had to learn how to love myself and trust me it’s not the type of thing that happens over night.

~ Crystal L. Swain

When something is truly meant for YOU, you won't have to force it, rush it, or manipulate it.

~ Stephanie Lahart

I refuse to GROW UP............................Grow up to be what the World expects me to be..

~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

If you forget who you've become remember who you are

~ Benny Bellamacina

We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.

~ Parker J. Palmer

Love is that which gives of itself, not because anyone needs it or deserves it, but because that is what love does.

~ Vivian Amis

He Who Owns Himself Is Never Alone.

~ Unknown

The truth is he spends thirty minutes of every hour suspecting he has missed some essential clue about himself. And not only himself--he has a recurring fantasy that one night, while he was asleep, the entire world was transformed into an alien planet, but no one bothered to tell him, and he didn't have the instinct to figure it out, and here he is now on a wild new Earth, walking around like an imbecile, as if everything he knows hasn't fallen away behind him like a river plummeting over a precipice.

~ Kevin Brockmeier

You do not need permission to be you. Just be your authentic, brilliant, one-soul-only self. You are a marvel. Act like it!

~ Toni Sorenson

Say what you mean and mean what you say. Don’t be afraid to stand firm on the decisions that you make. Trust yourself. Believe in your instincts. Do what works best for YOU. Stay true to yourself and be good to yourself. Allow every decision that you make to empower, enrich, and add value to your life!

~ Stephanie Lahart

...All who ever died, live; they are reborn and have no end, nor will there ever be an end. All, save you. For you would not have death. You lost death, you lost life, in order to save yourself. Yourself! Your immortal self! What is it? Who are you?I am myself. My body will not decay and die-A living body suffers pain, Cob; a living body grows old; it dies. Death is the price we pay for our life and for all life.I do not pay it! I can die and in that moment live again! I cannot be killed; I am immortal. I alone am myself forever!Who are you, then?The Immortal One.Say your name.The King.Say my name. I told it to you but a minute since. Say my name!You are not real. You have no name. Only I exist.You exist: without name, without form. You cannot see the light of day; you cannot see the dark. You sold the green earth and the sun and stars to save yourself. But you have no self. All that which you sold, that is yourself. You have given everything for nothing. And so now you seek to draw your world to you, all that light and life you lost, to fill up your nothingness. But it cannot be filled. Not all the songs of earth, not all the stars of heaven, could fill your emptiness.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin