Living Quotes

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

~ Louise Erdrich

Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly you forget meDo not look for meFor I shall already have forgotten youIf you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my lifeAnd you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have rootsRememberThat on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my armsAnd my roots will set off to seek another land

~ Pablo Neruda

More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Each day brings new opportunities, allowing you to constantly live with love—be there for others—bring a little light into someone's day. Be grateful and live each day to the fullest.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.

~ Roy T. Bennett

It’s important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your belief and experiences. You have positive thoughts and you have negative ones too. Nurture your mind with positive thoughts: kindness, empathy, compassion, peace, love, joy, humility, generosity, etc. The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all the things that you want to buy and meet all the people that you want to meet and learn all the things that you desire to learn and if you do all these things but are not madly in love: you have still not begun to live.

~ C. Joybell C.

I don't understand dating.. and the other things that people do.. all I know is that you ought to find the one you recognize. The one who gives you four arms, four legs, four eyes, and has the other half of your heart. There's only one of those, so what are all the other things for? Like dating?

~ C. Joybell C.

We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.

~ T.h. White

I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am going to write fire until it comes out of my ears, my eyes, my noseholes--everywhere. Until it's every breath I breathe. I'm going to go out like a fucking meteor!

~ Audre Lorde

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

~ D.h. Lawrence

If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.

~ C. Joybell C.

Live to the point of tears.

~ Albert Camus

I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.

~ C. Joybell C.

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

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

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

~ Roy T. Bennett

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

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

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

~ 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

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

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.

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

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

~ Roy T. Bennett

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

Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.

~ Roy T. Bennett