Life Quotes - Do Not Let Arrogance Go to Your Head
“Do
not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let
compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go
to your head and failure to your heart.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“A
smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place.
When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Courage
is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of
fear.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Happiness
is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.”
―
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Love
is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we
find it with another.”
―
Thomas Merton, Love and Living
“You
Are the Master of Your Attitude
You
cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about
all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a
positive mental attitude.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“We'd
start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on
for awhile. Maybe even forever.
That
was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It
was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty
minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished
would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really
mattered, and that was this: it was happening. Right then, as I ran with Wes
into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards. Look, there. Now. Now. Now.”
―
Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
“There
is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
―
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Collected Works
“I
love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an
hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above
your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend
the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that
you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And
it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came
here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life
with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
―
Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally
“It
wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”
―
Charles Bukowski, Pulp
“No!
Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”
―
George Lucas, The Star Wars Trilogy
“It
is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn
from our errors and move on.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Just
living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine,
freedom, and a little flower.”
―
Hans Christian Anderson, The Complete Fairy Tales
“Renew,
release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back.
You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew
yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!”
―
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human
Experience
“Our
lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird
place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be
trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy
and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink
our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.”
―
Tom Robbins
“You
were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being)
to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.”
―
Elizabeth Gilbert
“The
best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right
where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and
that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish, the birds
would still be on their way south, the deers would still be drinking out of
that water hole, with their pretty antlers and they're pretty, skinny legs, and
that squaw with the naked bosom would still be weaving that same blanket.
Nobody's be different. The only thing that would be different would be you. Not
that you'd be so much older or anything. It wouldn't be that, exactly. You'd
just be different, that's all. You'd have an overcoat this time. Or the kid
that was your partner in line the last time had got scarlet fever and you'd
have a new partner. Or you'd have a substitute taking the class, instead of
Miss Aigletinger. Or you'd heard your mother and father having a terrific fight
in the bathroom. Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street
with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some way—I can't
explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it.”
―
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Have
patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the
questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign
language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you
because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything.
At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without
even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”
―
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“People
say that eyes are windows to the soul.”
―
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
“Even
for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”
―
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
