Life Quotes - Don’t Sacrifice Yourself too much
“Don’t
sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing
else you can give and nobody will care for you.”
―
Karl Lagerfeld
“If
your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that
you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is
no poverty and no poor indifferent place.”
―
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“Life
will not break your heart. It'll crush it.”
―
Henry Rollins
“Choosing
a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and
she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she
made now. “I’m afraid of committing myself,” she thought to herself. She wanted
to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none. Even in that most
important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her
first romantic disappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She
feared pan, loss, and separation. These things were inevitable on the path to
love, and the only way of avoiding them was by deciding not to take that path
at all. In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting
out your own eyes not to see the bad things in life.”
―
Paulo Coelho, Brida
“All
human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”
―
Gabriel García Márquez, Gabriel García Márquez: a Life
“Perhaps
I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he
had to invent laughter.”
―
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Life
doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“You
will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition
of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every
creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of
creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life.
Everywhere in the universe.”
―
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“Nobody
sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way
we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such
distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to
us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in
the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which
we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when
there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through
all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts.”
―
Tennessee Williams
“Mistakes
are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a
thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. ”
―
Carl G. Jung
“Home
wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who
loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then
another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you
take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.”
―
Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
“I
don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to
enjoy ourselves.”
―
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Hollowness:
that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do
to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your
life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around
concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps”
―
Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
“You
are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It
is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“This
life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well.
Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the
power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control
your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life
happy.”
―
Susan Polis Schutz
“Every
atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left
hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the
most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be
here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen,
oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t
created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of
stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were
kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be
here today.”
―
Lawrence M. Krauss
“If
you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will
invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want
to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call
the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know
you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
―
Oscar Wilde
“To
travel is to live.”
―
Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
“He
died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what
it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.”
―
Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
“Just
keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what
you have to do, for you.”
―
Johnny Depp
“There
were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came.
His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy. “My name is Augustus Waters,” he said.
“I’m seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but
I’m just here today at Isaac’s request.”
“And
how are you feeling?” asked Patrick.
