Life
Quotes - Storms hit your weakness, but unlock your true strength
“Don't
live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”
―
Wendy Wasserstein
“Depression
isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never
get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.”
―
Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
“I
cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life.
As a species we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don't believe in
the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain
and life-long poverty shows us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we've made
only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.”
―
Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
“If
you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it
is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to
depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little
loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and
colorful YOU.”
―
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing
Singleness with Confidence
“Nothing
makes a person happier than having a happy heart.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“Changing
your outside world cannot make you happy if you are an unhappy person. The real
personal change can only happen from the inside out. If you firstly create the
change within yourself, you can turn your life around.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Books
can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your
life’.”
―
Helen Exley
“E.L.
Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night.
You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip
that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your
destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two
or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on
writing, or life, I have ever heard.”
―
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
“Transformation
is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result
of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life.
Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for
you if you don’t show up as you.”
―
Jason Mraz
“The
cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment
with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.”
―
Ian McEwan, Atonement
“Look.
I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t
get disappointed.”
―
Patricia McCormick, Cut
“Let
me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has
obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”
―
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“I
won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the
voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there
are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully,
entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence
that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!”
―
Oscar Wilde
“Happiness
was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”
―
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
“Enjoy
life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”
―
Hans Christian Andersen
“I
should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these
days. I've cried a few times, but mostly I'm empty, as if whatever makes me
feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me
hollowed out like a shell.”
―
Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
“You
are a child of the universe,
no
less than the trees and the stars;
you
have a right to be here.
And
whether or not it is clear to you,
no
doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”
―
Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life
“It
is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the
past or worrying about the future. You cannot change your past, but you can
ruin the present by worrying about your future. Learn from the past, plan for
the future. The more you live in and enjoy the present moment, the happier you
will be.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Challenge
and adversity are meant to help you know who you are. Storms hit your weakness,
but unlock your true strength.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“These
were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the
connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often
magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way
that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought
were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable
time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had
been my life.”
―
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
“You
were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never
make sense.”
―
Rick Warren
