Life Quotes

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.

~ Haruki Murakami

If something bad happened just do this 3 things.First inhale second exhale and third accept that it happened.

~ Kenneth De Guzman

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

~ Joan Miró

And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept what was put before me--be it a watery grave in Ireland's only natural fjord, or a return to the city and its grayer intensities, or a wordless exile in some steaming Cambodian swamp hole, or poems or no poems, or children or not, lovers or not, illness or otherwise, success or its absence. I would accept all that was put in my way, from here on through until I breathed my last.

~ Kevin Barry

Never do anything you'll regret. Never regret anything you do.

~ Lea Mishell

I can’t apologize for who I am any more. Even better, I have no desire to.

~ Scott Stabile

I won’t stop until I can look at myself in the mirror in love with the person I see.

~ Scott Stabile

He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings, he couldn't reach anyways. In the end though what he could give her was better than magic wands and magic frogs and magic lamps. Better and more magical. What he gave her was moral support and unconditional love. He promised to be there for her always, even times when the sky proved too vast and the night was dark because she couldn't kindle all the stars. He would light her way instead, he promised. He would be her Polaris, her celestial navigator, her astral guide. And whenever she cam back to Earth, Grumwald promised, he would be there, waiting.

~ Laurie Frankel

He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings, he couldn't reach anyways. In the end though what he could give her was better than magic wands and magic frogs and magic lamps. Better and more magical. What he gave her was moral support and unconditional love. He promised to be there for her always, even times when the sky proved too vast and the night was dark because she couldn't kindle all the stars. He would light her way instead, he promised. He would be her Polaris, her celestial navigator, her astral guide. And whenever she came back to Earth, Grumwald promised, he would be there, waiting

~ Laurie Frankel

I used to think the opposite of control was chaos. But it's not. The opposite of control is surrender.

~ Erin Loechner

I would much rather lose people than compromise my beliefs & values to please them.

~ Trevor Driggers

However difficult death is for us to accept, we must... how would we learn to appreciate each moment if it were not precious? If life were forever?

~ Michelle Harrison

Acceptance.Good and bad,Fortune and misfortune,Pleasure and pain,I want it all,Because it's mine.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Whatever is going on- accept it rather than try to fight it. When you accept what is- then you are free to act. You have the energy to take action. You haven’t used up all of your energy trying to fight and force things into place. What we resist persists. You will know you are in resistance when you look at what you are trying hard to push away and out of your life.

~ Sheri Kaye Hoff

I realize life is a beautiful mess. You can make it more beautiful by accepting the way it is. If you don’t accept, you’ll mess it up.

~ Manasa Rao

Life is most transfixing when you are awake to diversity, not only of ethnicity, ability, gender, belief, and sexuality but also of age and experience. The worst mistake anyone can make is to perceive anyone else as lesser.

~ Andrew Solomon

The more we accept the imperfections of life, the more perfect life seems to become.

~ Russell Kyle

I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

~ Dean Koontz

The sentences still form in my mind, and thoughts still do their little show-off dance, but I know my thought patterns so well now that they don't bother me anymore. My thoughts have become like old neighbors, kind of bothersome but ultimately rather endearing - Mr. and Mrs. Yakkity-Yak and their three dumb children, Blah, Blah and Blah. But they don't agitate my home. There's room for all of us in this neighborhood.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Stop fighting yourself and accept where you are in life. Let this time in your life motivate you to let go of all of the things that are holding you back.

~ Robert Tew

So this was the Ashram's final joke on me? Once I had learned to accept my loud, chatty, social nature and fully embrace my inner Key Hostess - only then could I become The Quiet Girl in the Back of the Temple, after all?

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

The True Man of ancient times knew nothing of loving life, knew nothing of hating death. He emerged without delight; he went back in without a fuss. He came briskly, he went briskly, and that was all. He didn't forget where he began; he didn't try to find out where he would end. He received something and took pleasure in it; he forgot about it and handed it back again.

~ Zhuangzi

The goals of true education are to teach acceptance, tolerance, and nonviolence.

~ Debasish Mridha

For it is one thing to declare one's love for someone and quite another to accept that loving that person requires sacrificing one's dreams.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Accept what it, forget what was.

~ Sue Fitzmaurice

Nothing happens without God’s will, and life doesn’t always go according to plan. Man proposes, God disposes. And it is God’s will that we need to surrender to. In retrospect it usually all makes sense.

~ Kristiane Backer

Begin accepting the gift now, and have every beautiful and good thing in life — and then share.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I learned that, while rejection is the name of the game, I’m always going to be exactly what someone is looking for, eventually. Whether it is looks or personality, be it in the professional world or the dating world, what others have over me is irrelevant, because there’s always someone out there looking for an exact type of someone – a someone that I can completely fulfill. I’m not going to be everyone’s ideal, so focusing on the times I get passed over – be it the modeling industry or in real life – is a colossal waste of time.

~ Abby Rosmarin

When it all comes crashing downTry to understand your meaningsNo one said it would be easyThis living, it ain't easy, ohYou were sewn togetherwith a tapestry of moleculesA billion baby galaxiesand wide open spacesAnd everything you need is hereEverything you fear is hereAnd it's holding you upIt just keeps holding you upWhen you came up from the groundFrom a million little piecesYou're a pretty human being

~ Cloud Cult

There are some things in life that just are. They are meant to be, and to fight against them is to ensure your own loss.

~ Theresa Smith

The world is a place of constant change. If we are open and ready to consider everything while remaining unbiased, we will be ready to accept these changes and utilize them to improve our lives.

~ Daniel Willey

For me- and for everybody else, probably- this is my first experience growing old, and the emotions I'm having, too, are all first-time feelings. If it were something I'd experienced before, then I'd be able to understand it more clearly, but this is the first time, so I can't. For now all I can do is put off making any detailed judgments and accept things as they are. Just like I accept the sky, the clouds, and the river. And there's also something kind of comical about it all, something you don't want to discard completely.

~ Haruki Murakami

I was always reaching for love, but it turns out love doesn't involve reaching. I was always dreaming of the big love, the ultimate love, the love that would sweep me off my feet or 'break open the hard shell of my lesser self' (Daisaku Ikeda). The love that would bring on my surrender. The love that would inspire me to give everything. As I lay there, it occurred to me that while I had been dreaming of this big love, this ultimate love, I had, without realizing it, been giving and receiving love for most of my life. As with the trees that were right in front of me, I had been unable to value what sustained me, fed me, and gave me pleasure. And as with the trees, I was so busy waiting for and imagining and reaching and dreaming and preparing for this huge big love that I had totally missed the beauty and perfection of the soft-boiled eggs and Bolivian quinoa.

~ Eve Ensler

Life itself is the best (and the only) timekeeper.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Happiness in something you need to search for, It comes from inside. You can pull it out from inside by satisfaction and acceptance.

~ Vijay Dhameliya

You unlock the door to greater levels of excellence and success when you accept who you are. It is from the point of acceptance that we can create a masterful life.

~ Steve Maraboli

We're all strange in our own strange way.

~ Mark Donnelly

Why when people are on their deathbed, they finally come to terms with life?

~ Anthony Liccione

The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this.

~ Anthony Liccione

When I accept myself, I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me.

~ Steve Maraboli