Life
Quotes - What you stay focused on will grow
“Pierre
was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in
order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but
while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.”
―
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“Never
allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.”
―
Eleanor Roosevelt
“There
are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is
when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in
the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.”
―
David M. Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“The
goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match
your nature with Nature.”
―
Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
“It
takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we're wrong is courage,
not weakness.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“It
takes courage to let down your armor, to welcome people to see you as you are.
Sometimes I feel the same as you: I can’t risk having people behold me as I
truly am. But there’s also a small voice in the back of my mind, a voice that
tells me, “You will miss so much by being so guarded.”
―
Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals
“There
is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for
love. That leaves no other time.”
―
Coco Chanel
“It
is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we
receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we
have wastefully.”
―
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How
to Use It
“Life
is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.”
―
Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kiss of the Night
“You
are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else.
And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why
are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?”
―
Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“Is
life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”
―
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The
mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never
did.”
―
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“You
have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies
within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand.
The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have
truly awakened.”
―
Jorge Luis Borges
“This
work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would
have his rations reduced by half.”
―
George Orwell, Animal Farm
“What
you stay focused on will grow.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“Life
is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.”
―
Danny Kaye
“Don’t
wait for things to happen. Make them happen.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“His
talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's
wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did
not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his
damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not
fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember
when it had been effortless.”
―
Ernest Hemingway
“All
the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have
strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the
teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”
―
Walt Disney
“You
learn something valuable from all of the significant events and people, but you
never touch your true potential until you challenge yourself to go beyond
imposed limitations.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“Those
who hurt others will also hurt themselves.”
―
Natsuki Takaya
“Even
chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our
previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as
coincidence.”
―
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“We
are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the
fact that we will never be the same. We are united by the reality that all
colours and all cultures are distinct & individual. We are harmonious in
the reality that we are all held to this earth by the same gravity. We don't
share blood, but we share the air that keeps us alive. I will not blind myself
and say that my black brother is not different from me. I will not blind myself
and say that my brown sister is not different from me. But my black brother is
he as much as I am me. But my brown sister is she as much as I am me.”
―
C. JoyBell C.
“How
can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?”
―
John Lennon
