Life
Quotes
The Trouble
with being in the Rat Race
How
people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
―
Wayne W. Dyer
“If
you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.”
―
Woody Allen
“The
trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a
rat.”
―
Lily Tomlin
“I
think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we
burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And
then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful
than we ever were before!”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“Not
one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved,
stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's
quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at
the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of
hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all
too briefly -- in you.”
―
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
“The
biggest wall you have to climb is the one you build in your mind: Never let
your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up. Never let your
mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on the right
track, the rest will follow.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“The
problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things
that count.”
―
Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
“Accept
what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be
tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.”
―
Paulo Coelho, Brida
“Why
do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we
need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to
do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we
really want.”
―
Ayn Rand
“I
live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
―
Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“Many
people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
―
Benjamin Franklin
“That
what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have
plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright
yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go
on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can
give me that.”
―
Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
“Maturity
is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Ester
asked why people are sad.
"That’s
simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal
history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They
never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They
accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more
than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.”
―
Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
“When
in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he
makes others jealous of his woman.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human
Experience
“Never
complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make
excuses.”
―
Brian Tracy
“I'd
like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really
should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things
which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to
attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take
the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life
of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one
peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous
spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living
spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters
with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an
endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
If
you want to get more out of life, Ron, you must lose your inclination for
monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first
appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you
will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty. And so, Ron, in short, get
out of Salton City and hit the Road. I guarantee you will be very glad you did.
But I fear that you will ignore my advice. You think that I am stubborn, but
you are even more stubborn than me. You had a wonderful chance on your drive
back to see one of the greatest sights on earth, the Grand Canyon, something
every American should see at least once in his life. But for some reason
incomprehensible to me you wanted nothing but to bolt for home as quickly as
possible, right back to the same situation which you see day after day after
day. I fear you will follow this same inclination in the future and thus fail
to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed around us to discover.
Don't
settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new
horizon. You are still going to live a long time, Ron, and it would be a shame
if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an
entirely new realm of experience.
You
are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human
relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and
anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against
our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.
My
point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind
of light in your life. It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and
all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is
yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.”
―
Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
“Strong
people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need
the approval of others.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“What's
done is done. What's gone is gone. One of life's lessons is always moving on.
It’s okay to look back to see how far you’ve come but keep moving forward.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Smile
more. Smiling can make you and others happy.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
