Living Quotes

The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me.

~ C. Joybell C.

Dedicate yourself to what gives your life true meaning and purpose, make a positive difference in someone's life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Stop comparing yourself to others. Always strive to improve yourself to become better today than you were yesterday to serve those around you and the world.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!

~ C. Joybell C.

We never know when our last day on earth will be. So, love with full sincerity, believe with true faith, and hope with all of your might. Better to have lived in truth and discovered life, than to have lived half heartedly and died long before you ever ceased breathing.

~ Cristina Marrero

Focus on making choices to lead your life that aligns with your core values in the most purposeful way possible.

~ Roy T. Bennett

The past is a place of learning, not a place of living.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Never let fear hold you captive. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. Never let frustration hold you captive.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Goals are the road maps that guide you to your destination. Cultivate the habit of setting clearly-defined written goals, they are the road maps that guide you to your destination.

~ Roy T. Bennett

The dead do not hurt you, only the living do.

~ Tess Gerritsen

I admire those who do good and expect nothing in return.

~ Roy T. Bennett

How unhappy does one have to be before living seems worse than dying?

~ Deborah Curtis

Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.

~ Criss Jami

We all have negative thoughts now and then, but we can choose not to dwell there and not to let them control us.

~ Roy T. Bennett

People are successful because they think and act like successful people.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

~ Stefan Zweig

I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life. Closing no doors and covering no windows; I am the multi-colored glass with light filtering through me, in many different shades. Allowing light to shed and fall into many many hues. My job is not to direct anything, but only to filter into many colors. My answer is destiny and my guide is joy. And there you have me.

~ C. Joybell C.

Do more listening than talking, talk more about them than about you.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Instead of complaining about the problem and blaming others, start finding the solution.

~ Roy T. Bennett

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

~ Philip Pullman

I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know,whoever I was, I wasalive for a little while.

~ Mary Oliver

Be patient and open-minded in your interactions with others, find the positive attributes that they possess.

~ Roy T. Bennett

One word of encouragement can be enough to spark someone’s motivation to continue with a difficult challenge.

~ Roy T. Bennett

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

~ Eric Roth

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

~ Virginia Woolf

When you start giving, instead of getting, you make a difference. You can always give a warm smile, a sincere hello, a positive vibe… your attention, your time, your love, and kindness to those around you.

~ Roy T. Bennett

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

~ Anaïs Nin

You've got this life and while you've got it, you'd better kiss like you only have one moment, try to hold someone's hand like you will never get another chance to, look into people's eyes like they're the last you'll ever see, watch someone sleeping like there's no time left, jump if you feel like jumping, run if you feel like running, play music in your head when there is none, and eat cake like it's the only one left in the world!

~ C. Joybell C.

Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.

~ Amit Ray

Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.

~ Ann Brashares

People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. Live your truth and don't EVER stop!

~ Steve Maraboli

Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.

~ Virgil

Feel your emotions,Live true your passions,Keep still your mind.

~ Geoffrey M. Gluckman

It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.

~ Jules Renard

You have two choices, to conquer your fear or to let your fear conquer you.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.

~ Neil Gaiman

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live

~ Albert Schweitzer

Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.

~ Mark Doty

People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving.

~ Debasish Mridha