Life
Quotes
(Perfectionism
is the Enemy of Happiness)
“When
you can live forever what do you live for?”
―
Stephenie Meyer
“Perfectionism
is the enemy of happiness. Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your
mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier. We make mistakes because we
are imperfect. Learn from your mistakes, forgive yourself, and keep moving
forward.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Tears,
idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears
from the depths of some devine despair
Rise
in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In
looking on the happy autumn fields,
And
thinking of the days that are no more.”
―
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Sacrifice
is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's
something to aspire to.”
―
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“Do
not ask your children
to
strive for extraordinary lives.
Such
striving may seem admirable,
but
it is the way of foolishness.
Help
them instead to find the wonder
and
the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show
them the joy of tasting
tomatoes,
apples and pears.
Show
them how to cry
when
pets and people die.
Show
them the infinite pleasure
in
the touch of a hand.
And
make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary
will take care of itself.”
―
William Martin, The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents
“Your
time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”
―
Steve Jobs
“Romance
novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think
everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those
times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.”
―
Janet Evanovich
“Don't
leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he
may be with his real girlfriend.”
―
Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
“Knowledge,
like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”
―
Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
“When
the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.”
―
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
“My
father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later,
but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So
be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”
―
Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight
“How
far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary
world.”
―
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
“Life
is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a
rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which
side win? Love wins. Love always wins”
―
Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
“We’re
here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we
do with the time.”
―
Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
“There
are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic
answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their
box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people.
They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like
indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance.”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“When
you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end. But however hard you
try you can't run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows
it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might
just turn dark if he ever for one moment, accepts it. Everybody knows that
everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days
are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. (In the library, the Doctor
walks back to the TARDIS. He stops, looking at the doors. Then he raises his
hand, and stands there poised like that for a long moment. Finally he snaps his
fingers. The doors open. He smiles slowly and walks in, joining Donna. Then he
snaps his fingers again, and the doors close. River's voice continues over
this.) Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million
days, when the wind stands fair, and the Doctor comes to call... everybody
lives.”
―
Steven Moffat
“A
fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”
―
Jess C Scott
“It
does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have
gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive
vibration you have radiated in life that matters,”
―
Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
“People
are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the
only moral they know.”
―
Dany Laferrière, I Am a Japanese Writer: A Novel
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