Life Quotes

To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.

~ Hermann Hesse

Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable future: the possibility of living beyond what our lifetime allows us to.

~ Camilo Gomes Jr.

NOTHING MAKES SENSE. Do not look for any sense in things. It is not there. It is you who ascribe it to what you live or get to know. A defeat or a victory is neither a message from the gods nor a trick of fate. Neither means anything — and, if they seem to, it is but an interpretation you yourself make of them —, inasmuch as things in themselves are only indifference and silence. So, do not waste your precious time in looking for signs everywhere around you. Try and interpret happenings, those which bleed and those which make you smile, as maturing experiences. Oh, yes, what is most important: live!

~ Camilo Gomes Jr.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.

~ Anthony Trollope

You all have your own distinct personal backgrounds. Of course some of you come from rich families, some from poor families. But circumstances beyond your control like that shouldn’t determine who you are. You must all realize what you’re worth on your own.

~ Koushun Takami

But there were certain moments in life that forever defined one as a person - in one's own estimation, anyway. And one's own self esteem, when all was said and done, was of far more importance than the fickle esteem of one's peers.

~ Mary Balogh

Your life, your achievement, your happiness, your person are of paramount importance. Live up to your highest vision of yourself no matter what the circumstances you might encounter. An exalted view of self-esteem is a man's most admirable quality.

~ Ayn Rand

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. - Denis Waitley.

~ Denis Waitley

one big problem and a great paradox in the arena of life is the problem of where or how a person is now and what, who and where he wants to be or have tomorrow. Had it not be this problem, we would have been relaxing all day long

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We all have special attributes that are of value to someone. Find your place of value. You are never useless. You just need to find your place.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

I’m back there again, broken from being a champion,The boy that no one loved,The years I spent training like a method actor toBecome the man that everyone admired,But it means nothing, Like ashes on a forehead, they marked me inferior,When I was still young enough to receive it into the grain of my being

~ Terrence Alonzo Craft

Sacredness is spirituality.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Nobody can help you as much as you can help yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-struggle is spiritual.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sacred-soul, sacred life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Choose faith to live life rather than fear.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every soul has the potential of a great spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Confident is a spirit of faith

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you can be content with who you are, how you look and then try every day to make a difference to someone else, then it leads to a wonderful life. It’s a shame more humans can’t grasp that fact.” - M.K. Clinton

~ M.k. Clinton

Where there is life, there is a hope.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces, and the other neighbors will laugh. But if you beat your soul, all souls will cry out.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

No matter how small you are or feel or think you are–live big. Yours is the only life of you, in this form, the world will ever have!

~ Na'ama Yehuda

Don't celebrate how old you are, celebrate the years you survived.

~ Touaxia Vang

Yes, you are right! I am your leftover trash. I hope you know a bum got to eat too. I believe you were one when I met you.

~ Touaxia Vang

How do you get rid of unhappiness? You must release yourself from the prison you have unknowingly placed yourself in. Come to terms with the fact that there are things that you cannot control. But, just because you don’t ‘control’ something, doesn’t mean it’s going to fall to pieces. That may be the hardest part. We get bent out of shape when something happens that is out of our control, because we don’t understand why it’s happening or where it’s coming from. It’s unsettling. You put your fighting arms up and prepare to battle the world. But, stop for a moment. Think. Where are all of these things coming from?The world is not a wild, untamed place, where things are a free for all. Understand that there is a higher power running the world.

~ Leigh Hershkovich

No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.

~ Rob Liano

Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mockery is childish. It does not become you.

~ Veronica Roth

If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.

~ Nicholas Sparks

She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.

~ Dave Eggers

It's best to be ruthless with the past.

~ Stephen King

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

~ Green Day

In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.

~ Sarah Brightman

I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared.

~ Anne Brontë

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

~ Jodi Picoult

To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.

~ Cameron Conaway

by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago.

~ Jodi Picoult

The present grows within the boundaries of the past.

~ Simon Van Booy

Withdraw, like a turtle, into a hard yet harmless shell, ornamented with beautiful memories of the past.from the book 'I Know Who You Are!

~ Fatima Masood

The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me. It resists finishing, and partly this is because words are not enough; my early world was synaesthesic, and I am haunted by the ghosts of my own sense impressions, which re-emerge when I try to write, and shiver between the lines.

~ Hilary Mantel