Life Quotes

Follow the rules until you make them.

~ Luke Green

STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book?RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing to the top. And finally when I got there, I discovered what was at the top.You know what was there?STRAUSS: No, I don't.RICHIE: Nothing. Not one thing. What was at the top was all the experiences that you had to get there.

~ Neil Strauss

My job is to inspire others to live full lives. Whether I do that through my writing or my actions are one in the same.

~ Victoria Klein

A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula, basically nothing more than a misunderstood bookworm, was draining blood from the necks of 10,000 hapless virgins not because he was the apotheosis of pure evil but because it was the only way he could live long enough to polish off his extensive reading list. But I have no way of knowing if this is true, as I have not yet found time to read 'Dracula.

~ Joe Queenan

Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.

~ Peter James West

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don’t have it, you cant give it.

~ Andrew Matthews

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

~ Horace

People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places.

~ Mitch Albom

Because the world is so corrupted, misspoken, unstable, exaggerated and unfair, one should trust only what one can experience with one's own senses, and THIS makes the senses stronger in Italy than anywhere in Europe. This is why, Barzini says, Italians will tolerate hideously incompetent generals, presidents, tyrants, professors, bureaucrats, journalists and captain of industry, but will never tolerate incompetent opera singers, conductors, ballerinas, courtesans, actors, film directors, cooks, tailors... In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.

~ Rashi

Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.

~ Yasmin Mogahed

Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from I can't do this to I must do this.

~ Toni Sorenson

Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.

~ Adi Alsaid

Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes.

~ Tom Robbins

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.

~ Saadi

Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.

~ Austin Kleon

Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you’re not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.

~ Steve Maraboli

How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.

~ Graham Swift

Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway.Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself.

~ Adrian Tan

I’m not out to compete with any one, I’m here to complete, by encouraging and inspiring souls through a text at a time

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

They say what doesn't kill the soul will make you stronger, but you can't be a stone-hearted man.

~ Anthony Green

To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman?

~ Confucius

Starting over can be the scariest thing in the entire world, whether it’s leaving a lover, a school, a team, a friend or anything else that feels like a core part of our identity but when your gut is telling you that something here isn’t right or feels unsafe, I really want you to listen and trust in that voice.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!

~ Terry Pratchett

Our wounds can so easily turn us into people we don't want to be, and we hardly see it happening. Protect your heart, love yourself, and be with people who love and care for you.

~ Sue Fitzmaurice

It isn't the happy ending Ingrid and I had dreamed up, but it's all a part of what I'm working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly, and hold you close.

~ Nina Lacour

Even after the stormiest weather, a true warrior will still reflect the brilliant rays of the magnificent sun through both his or her eyes. You may get hit by sudden lighting or take severe beatings from the cruel wind, but you will always get back up and stand strong on your feet again, soak in the sunlight, and be prepared to get hit by even the most merciless hail - time and time again.

~ Suzy Kassem

Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

~ Roy Bennett

When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.

~ Roy Bennett

Recognize that throughout this beautiful day,you have an incredible amount of opportunities to move your life into the direction you want it to go.

~ Steve Maraboli

Life is now in session. Are you present?

~ John C. Maxwell

Wherever you may go; Life is a beautiful thing. Life is like a passing season. It comes and go. Whatever may come, it's better to enjoy the changing seasons.

~ Diana Rose Morcilla

Our doubts are traitors and make uslose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. In other words, awish is a good place to start but then you have to get off your butt and make ithappen. You have to pick up a quill and write your own damn story. (Mimi Wallingford)

~ Suzanne Selfors

Distance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come into your life. Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

~ Roy Bennett

Falling in love with humans is like walking into a pantry and realizing you're trapped in it without Whip Cream, and Cherries.

~ Aainaa-Ridtz

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits.

~ Michaelangelo

Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.

~ Doug Dillon

Being a Dream Girl is never going to be about what you look like or how much you weigh. After all, our physical appearances are just reflections of our inner worlds. What makes you a Dream Girl is your emotional sensitivity, your self-awareness, and your ability to communicate who you are effectively and compassionately in the world.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Life's not the breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.

~ George Strait

Every woman should see herself looking uniquely breathtaking, in something tailored to celebrate her body, so that she is better able to appreciate her own beauty and better equipped to withstand the ideals of our narrow-waisted, narrow- minded culture.

~ Susan Jane Gilman