Life Quotes

Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

~ Roy T. Bennett

make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.

~ Jon Krakauer

If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.

~ Roy T. Bennett

When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.

~ John Green

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead.

~ Roy T. Bennett

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

~ Ben Okri

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

~ Helen Keller

I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....

~ Erica Jong

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

~ Woody Allen

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

~ Charles Darwin

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

~ Neil Gaiman

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

~ Neil Gaiman

Laugh, even when you feel too sick or too worn out or tired. Smile, even when you're trying not to cry and the tears are blurring your vision. Sing, even when people stare at you and tell you your voice is crappy. Trust, even when your heart begs you not to. Twirl, even when your mind makes no sense of what you see. Frolick, even when you are made fun of. Kiss, even when others are watching. Sleep, even when you're afraid of what the dreams might bring. Run, even when it feels like you can't run any more.And, always, remember, even when the memories pinch your heart. Because the pain of all your experience is what makes you the person you are now. And without your experience---you are an empty page, a blank notebook, a missing lyric. What makes you brave is your willingness to live through your terrible life and hold your head up high the next day. So don't live life in fear. Because you are stronger now, after all the crap has happened, than you ever were back before it started.

~ Alysha Speer

Acts of Kindness:A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Believe in Your HeartBelieve in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone, change begins at the end of your comfort zone.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.

~ Steve Maraboli

If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

~ Stephen Fry

Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.

~ Gustave Flaubert

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

~ Aldous Huxley

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.

~ Horton Foote

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

~ Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.

~ Charles M. Schulz

The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

~ Francis Bacon

Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

~ George R.r. Martin

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

~ Mae West

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

~ Marie Curie

Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.

~ Katharine Weber

What makes big boobs and perkiness so attractive to boys? I mean, really. Two round, mounds of fat and a fake smile. Yeah, winning attributes.

~ Gena Showalter

Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.

~ Alice Hoffman

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.

~ Lemony Snicket

Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.

~ Roy T. Bennett

No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.

~ Roy T. Bennett