Inspirational
Quotes - What are you going to do with your life?
“What
are you going to do with your life?" In one way or another it seemed that
people had been asking her this forever; teachers, her parents, friends at
three in the morning, but the question had never seemed this pressing and still
she was no nearer an answer... "Live each day as if it's your last', that
was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if
it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to
be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world
exactly, but the bit around you. Cherish your friends, stay true to your
principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love
and be loved, if you ever get the chance.”
―
David Nicholls, One Day
“Man
cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the
shore.”
―
Andre Gide
“Dream
as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.”
―
James Dean
“I'd
rather learn from one bird how to sing
than
teach ten thousand stars how not to dance”
―
E.E. Cummings
“Resentment
is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
―
Nelson Mandela
“Those
who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
―
Abraham Lincoln
“Guard
well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“Patience
Is Not the Ability to Wait:
Patience
is not the ability to wait. Patience is to be calm no matter what happens,
constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities, and have
faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Without
fear there cannot be courage.”
―
Christopher Paolini
“Whatever
the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
―
Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice
“The
great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for
us does not.”
―
C.S. Lewis
“There's
so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.”
―
Marilynne Robinson, Home
“It
is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look
upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”
―
Edgar Allan Poe
“I
dreamed I spoke in another's language,
I
dreamed I lived in another's skin,
I
dreamed I was my own beloved,
I
dreamed I was a tiger's kin.
I
dreamed that Eden lived inside me,
And
when I breathed a garden came,
I
dreamed I knew all of Creation,
I
dreamed I knew the Creator's name.
I
dreamed--and this dream was the finest--
That
all I dreamed was real and true,
And
we would live in joy forever,
You
in me, and me in you.”
―
Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
“In
the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”
―
Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank
I
will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit
“I
will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I
deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human
Experience
“Every
man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not
exceeding the limit.”
―
Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted By Ali Baba And The Bunch On
Rainy Days
“You
must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“To
love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable.
Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems
hopeless.”
―
G.K. Chesterton
“Scar
tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
―
Henry Rollins
“The
windows of my soul I throw
Wide
open to the sun.”
―
John Greenleaf Whittier, John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry: An Appraisal and a
Selection
“What
would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“However
mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.
It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The
fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.
You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a
poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as
brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early
in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and
have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
―
Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
“Fiction
is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread
out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”
―
John Cheever
“I
learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in
the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has
imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours..”
― Thoreau,
Henry David
