Life Quotes

DBT's catchphrase of developing a life worth living means you're not just surviving; rather, you have good reasons for living. I'm also getting better at keeping another dialectic in mind: On the one hand, the disorder decimates all relationships and social functions, so you're basically wandering in the wasteland of your own failure, and yet you have to keep walking through it, gathering the small bits of life that can eventually go into creating a life worth living. To be in the desolate badlands while envisioning the lush tropics without being totally triggered again isn't easy, especially when life seems so effortless for everyone else.

~ Kiera Van Gelder

Don't let success lead to arrogance and failure lead to criticism.

~ Arlin Sailesh Kapadia

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

~ Eiji Yoshikawa

Humans are really stupid. If we don't fall and get hurt, we won't learn our lesson. Just like a kid repeatedly falling.No matter how many times we fail, or how many times we've fallen. Humans will stand once again, smiling ruefully at our grazed knees before continuing onwards. This time we will not run from our pain.

~ Yuuri Eda

There is treasure hidden beneath the entire land, but the problem is people are unwilling to dig it out.

~ Waqar Masood

The idea of practicing love is deeply appealing to me, because built right in is an acceptance of imperfection. There is an acknowledgment to myself that I am going to mess this up, an understanding that there is room to grow. Each of my failures just affirms the truth that we are all starting over and rising again.

~ Anna White

Dreams aren't only an illusion to put you into a subconsciously pleasurable state of mind for the time being, but also a pathway to gain complete contentment.

~ Mehek Bassi

Failure is the ultimate motivator, the supreme teacher, and the definitive guarantee of life. Failure is what makes success so addictive.

~ Noel Dejesus

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

~ Hafiz

We'll all be failures?Yes. I don't mean only money failures, but just sort of - of ineffectual and sad, and - oh, how can I tell you?

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ian pretended that not knowing what to do was the hard part when, somewhere inside, I think he knew that making a choice about something is when the real uncertainty begins. The more terrifying uncertainty is wanting something and not knowing how to get it. It is working toward something even though there is no sure thing. When we make choices, we open ourselves up to hard work and failure and heartbreak, so sometimes it feels easier not to know, not to choose, and not to do.

~ Meg Jay

There are times in our lives when we labor so hard, for so long, that it may feel that we have nothing to show for it. That we have failed. We get discouraged, because we don’t achieve what we yearned for or anticipated.But a lack of desired results doesn’t mean we failed…it means we have locked our sights on the end result, instead of focusing on the process itself.No one can guarantee your success.What you can do, however, is consistently act—progressing towards your goals, so that your chances of success grows exponentially with each step you take.

~ Jaime Buckley

When I rise uplet me rise up joyfullike a bird.When I falllet me fall without regretlike a leaf.

~ Wendell Berry

If you don't keep moving forward, you'll always be in the same place.

~ Lillielyse Monsel

Failure is when you accept it, otherwise it's just another obstacle.

~ Krishna Saagar

Everything has a finsh line. You just have to keep moving forward until you cross it.

~ Lillielyse Monsel

We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on

~ Orson Scott Card

When you know you have unconditional love, there is no point in rebellion and no need to fear failure.

~ George W. Bush

The things that I regret in my life are not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

~ Jeanette Winterson

I’ve witnessed, incognito, the gradual collapse of my life, the slow foundering of all I wanted to be. I can say, with a truth that needs no flowers to show it’s dead, that there’s nothing I’ve wanted - and nothing in which I’ve placed, even for a moment, the dream of only that moment - that hasn’t disintegrated below my windows like a clod of dirt that resembled stone until it fell from a flowerpot on a high balcony. It would even seem that Fate has always tried to make me love or want things just so that it could show me, on the very next day, that I didn’t have and could never have them.

~ Fernando Pessoa

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

~ Amelia E. Barr

There's one good thing about a mistake. As long as you're alive, you still have time to fix it.

~ Benjamin Bayani

I don't want to fail, of course. But even though I didn't know how bad things really were, I still had a lot to think about before I said yes. I had to consider the implications for Pixar, for my family, for my reputation. I decided that I didn't really care, because this is what I want to do. If I try my best and fail, well, I've tried my best.

~ Steve Jobs

Sometimes stories get on my nerves--especially the ones where unfair things keep happening to the hero over and over, for no reason at all, and he valiantly overcomes it all.Life isn't like that.Not every hero can stay valiant. Sometimes, they can't even stay a hero, so what does that make them? A failure? A pussy? A total failure jerkwad with no hope on the horizon save finding a cemetery and digging rectangles in the ground for the town drunk?

~ Susan Vaught

A mistake of one man is not the mistake of mankind.

~ Kim Panti

It was very quiet at the hotel, as if there had been a death in the family. When you have quit the Tour, nobody really knows what to say or do. (...) Everything I'd previously achieved meant nothing; all I was now was a pro rider who couldn't finish the Tour de France.

~ David Millar

Failure is the sourness that makes success All the more sweeter.

~ Joshua Wisenbaker

She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed you to suffer for it.

~ Charles Bukowski

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

~ Alison Lurie

The world is always greater than your desires, plenty is never enough.

~ Aleksandar Hemon

The truly terrible thing about this life, was not knowing what you want, but only able to recognize what you do not want. You have to spend so much time and energy trying to find it out, time that other people spent in pursuing of their desires.

~ Whitney Otto

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

Because life is short. I feel we’re made of a hunger, a desire for life – if that can be described as a material. As I get older, I’m trying to open that channel more. If you don’t, if you close off desire and get complacent, life loses its freshness and sweetness, and that’s what I crave. That’s my bliss.

~ Sarah Slean

We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live life not according to their own desires are those who have no desires--which is the majority, actually. People can say what they like, they can speak of abnegation, sacrifice, generosity, acceptance, and resignation, but it's all false. The norm is for people to think that they desire whatever comes to them, whatever they achieve along the way or whatever is given to them--they have no preconceived desires.

~ Javier Marías

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

You are moving on the chariot of your desire whatever you are thinking is always right.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Humans do not possess a single, focused will. In their hearts, they have countless bugs, buzzing in all directions. There are times when all these bugs pounce on the same food, but when they are focused on different desires, people take actions that can only be described as incoherent.

~ Kouhei Kadono

Eternity is pure and knows to give you what you desire … You have to be clear what you ask for, or else you’ll get what you deserve.

~ Sandeep Sahajpal

When we stake a claim to the needs and wants of our life, we may easily fail to live up to the standards of others. Empathy and connectedness, however, might bridge the gap, by stirring our consciousness of the sensitive queries and by assessing the intricate framework of our surroundings with their countless, prickly nitty-gritties. (Absence of Desire)

~ Erik Pevernagie

And beauty is terror,' said Julian, 'then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?''To live,' said Camilla.'To live forever,' said Bunny, chin cupped in palm.

~ Donna Tartt