Living Quotes

I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

... and you might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”and I will say“watch me”for I never did this to fit inor stand outbut to live.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

We are all born with a dream, every dream needs nourishment to thrive.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Yesterday is gone, live for today and leave a legacy for tomorrow.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

~ Bret Easton Ellis

For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.

~ Diane Ackerman

Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned him about his early days and he would not answer. ‘What is the egg to the eagle?’ he asked me…

~ Bernard Cornwell

Often the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

~ Vittorio Alfieri

There will be times in your life when you will have to stand alone in your pain and choke back all the injustice done to you. Letting go will be the hardest thing you have ever had to do because it means losing something you wish you didn't have to lose--the person that you care for. However, to be authentic--one person, it requires standing for truth as you know it to be, instead of having your dignity destroyed by another. It is a fire you have to walk through, in order to truly live. Sometimes, practicing faith by letting go is the most painful chapter of your life that will take every bit of courage for you to close, before you can be reborn.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I don't fear the future. I fear letting it pass by me, without ever trying to make it mine.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Life can only be live with great courage.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Live daringly with great courage.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be fearless to live life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Living life is a courageous act.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Extraordinary change can happen in your life, but it will take extraordinary people, extraordinary courage and extraordinary faith to believe that this won't be a repeat of your past.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Anyone can fail at something they really don’t want. What really takes courage is going after something you want and then failing. There is more fulfillment in life knowing that you tried, rather than settled without a fight.

~ Shannon L. Alder

So I ask you, can you walk a mile? Every day, rain or shine, pain or gain, because you know you have to just to stay alive, just to breathe. Can you walk that mile?

~ Bella Andre

Your blessings lay beyond your fear.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I believe that You Reap What You Sow. I believe that we don't meet people by accident, everything happens for a reason. I believe that standing for what you believe in isn’t an easy thing but it’s the right thing to do, be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.

~ Roy Bennett

KEY OF LIFEThe key of lifeSymbolizes the mapOf existence.Once you free yourselfFrom all resistance,Your path will become white -For the remainder of the distance.Poetry by Suzy Kassem

~ Suzy Kassem

Daring life, optimistic living.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It takes a hell of a lot of courage to walk into your own story, but to be the hero of your own life you have to rescue yourself.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Settling is not a destination, rather a vacation rental staring at an endless sea that dares you to cross its waves.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Life is filled with opportunities. Be courageous and fulfill your destiny. You were created for a purpose and once you realize your potential, you become unstoppable. Let no one get in the way of you pursuing your dreams.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Free your mind of that which you have no control. It is not only good to do so for your mental, but your overall health. Some people must learn from experience. You can convey knowledge to them and offer to show them the way. But, that doesn't mean your wisdom will be accepted or appreciated.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Loving someone doesn't mean you have to bow down to them or drop everything and run to their relentless calls. They must understand and love you enough to give you the respect that you deserve. Loving someone doesn't mean you have to shower them with gifts all the time. Give them your honesty, hope, joy, and encouragement on a daily basis.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self—never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted.

~ George Eliot

The roads of life are paved wide and skirt the mountains. And these very roads are choked with a steady stream of pathetically pedantic travelers who in reality have no intent of traveling. And if we are to discover the real travelers, much less join them, we will find them out on precarious paths that defy the roads and scale the mountains.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the places where life stores its scraps.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To have no desire is such a load of bullshit--forgive me for being so blunt. To have no passion in one's life is a cop-out for cowards.

~ Irina Kovalyova

When I get frustrated that there aren't enough hours in a day, that I can't do enough or be enough or experience everything I want to just exactly right now, my mom reminds me in her gentle way that this is not where she thought she'd be at sixty, and that the best is yet to come. She teaches me, through her words and her actions, that if you take the next right step, if you live a life of radical and honest prayer, if you allow yourself to be led by God's Spirit, no matter how far from home and familiarity it takes you, you won't have to worry about what you want to be when you grow up. You'll be too busy living a life of passion and daring.

~ Shauna Niequist

More I tried hating him,more I thought about him and I lived with it everyday and I lived with him everyday.

~ Pushpa Rana

Live your greatest dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Live in such a way that when you die you leave God in your will for your children.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Your passion sustains you. Your purpose is why you were created. Follow your passion but ensure you fulfill your purpose.

~ Kemi Sogunle

Stop living in the shadows of another. You've been given everything needed to live a purposed filled life. Don't be a second rate version of yourself.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

People quick to criticize others, but won't shine the light on themselves. You can't always judge a book by the outside appearance. You have to open it up and read in order to discover how precious it is.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Grow taller than your failures, never give up. People who are content with where they are will never be passionate about making greater accomplishments in their lives.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Music is not my life. My life is music.

~ Criss Jami

Follow your purpose with integrity. Live your passion with integrity. If you don't have integrity you live in fear, and as far as I'm concerned living in fear is not enjoying life.

~ Unarine Ramaru