Life Quotes

The beautiful is always bizarre.

~ Charles Baudelaire

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

~ Jane Austen

There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when they tell you that you have, say, a 20 percent chance of living five years, the math kicks in and you figure that’s one in five . . . so you look around and think, as any healthy person would: I gotta outlast four of these bastards.

~ John Green

Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

~ Brian Tracy

The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.

~ Roy T. Bennett

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

~ Søren Kierkegaard

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselves and lead them to their highest potential they don’t even know.

~ Roy T. Bennett

To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong.

~ Roy T. Bennett

One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world, there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others.

~ Roy T. Bennett

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.

~ T.s. Eliot

If you can’t save your own life, is it even worth saving?

~ Rainbow Rowell

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

~ Will Durant

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

~ Bill Ayers

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

~ Carl Sagan

Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.

~ Bohdi Sanders

He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also....but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop.

~ Steve Maraboli

If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.

~ John Green

May Light always surround you;Hope kindle and rebound you.May your Hurts turn to Healing;Your Heart embrace Feeling.May Wounds become Wisdom;Every Kindness a Prism.May Laughter infect you;Your Passion resurrect you.May Goodness inspire your Deepest Desires.Through all that you Reach For, May your arms Never Tire.

~ D. Simone

What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

~ Charles Bukowski

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

~ Roger A. Caras

But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.

~ Sarah Dessen

To care about your outward appearance is important, but what’s more important is to have a beautiful soul.

~ Roy T. Bennett

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

~ Jane Austen

When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.

~ Masashi Kishimoto

One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.

~ Cassandra Clare

You will never follow your own inner voice until you clear up the doubts in your mind.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.

~ Joan Didion

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

~ Thomas Hardy

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Associate Yourself with People Who Think Positively: Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Great Leaders Create More LeadersGood leaders have vision and inspire others to help them turn vision into reality. Great leaders create more leaders, not followers. Great leaders have vision, share vision, and inspire others to create their own.

~ Roy T. Bennett

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv