Life Quotes

Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure.

~ Roy T. Bennett

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.

~ Stephen Chbosky

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

~ Groucho Marx

My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.

~ Judy Blume

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

~ Ralph Ellison

Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

~ John Keats

Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces.

~ C. Joybell C.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

~ Katharine Hepburn

What a strange thing!to be alivebeneath cherry blossoms.

~ Kobayashi Issa

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful, to make the most of what we have, to be happy with simple pleasures, and have courage when things go wrong.

~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

~ John Lennon

Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.

~ Roy T. Bennett

It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.

~ Roy T. Bennett

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

~ Kami Garcia

After all, tomorrow is another day!

~ Margaret Mitchell

Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder

~ Stephenie Meyer

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.

~ George Saunders

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.

~ Roy T. Bennett

I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with someone even if they could have. I need to know these people exist.

~ Stephen Chbosky

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..

~ Henry David Thoreau

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

~ James Hilton

I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.

~ Lauren Myracle

If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

~ John Irving

You live but once, you might as well be amusing.

~ Coco Chanel

Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.

~ William Goldman

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

~ Guillaume Apollinaire

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

~ Steve Maraboli