Quotes on Life - You are Beautiful
“Being
grateful does not mean that everything is necessarily good. It just means that
you can accept it as a gift.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“Get
Off The Scale!
You
are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and
success, is immeasurable. Day after day, countless people across the globe get
on a scale in search of validation of beauty and social acceptance.
Get
off the scale! I have yet to see a scale that can tell you how enchanting your
eyes are. I have yet to see a scale that can show you how wonderful your hair
looks when the sun shines its glorious rays on it. I have yet to see a scale
that can thank you for your compassion, sense of humor, and contagious smile.
Get off the scale because I have yet to see one that can admire you for your
perseverance when challenged in life.
It’s
true, the scale can only give you a numerical reflection of your relationship
with gravity. That’s it. It cannot measure beauty, talent, purpose, life force,
possibility, strength, or love. Don’t give the scale more power than it has
earned. Take note of the number, then get off the scale and live your life. You
are beautiful!”
―
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“You're
both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the
protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You
are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
―
John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
“Your
conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen
to it carefully.”
―
Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Some
things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.”
―
Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight
“Moral
wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always
painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the
heart.”
―
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Cynics
are simply thwarted romantics.”
―
William Goldman, The Princess Bride
“They
had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that.”
―
Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
“When
you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you
will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”
―
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“I
woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my
life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far
away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never
seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the
hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the
cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange
seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole
life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.”
―
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“There
are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life
from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...”
―
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“Prime
numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think
prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out
the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”
―
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
“I
have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking
about myself.”
―
Edith Sitwell
“Poetry
is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the
ash.”
―
Leonard Cohen
“You
never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last
argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked
into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life.
After
they were gone?
That
was all you thought about.
Day
and night.”
―
J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
“If
there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that
quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.”
―
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“Don’t
let others tell you what you can’t do. Don't let the limitations of others
limit your vision. If you can remove your self-doubt and believe in yourself,
you can achieve what you never thought possible.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Art
is the proper task of life. ”
―
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Don't
think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you,
rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love
you.”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“She
just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling
him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that
he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his
life.”
―
Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
