Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.
Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.
Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
The influence of social media is unbelievable. It’s sad to see – it’s a fake life that some people live.
A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.
Life’s not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.
My theory on life is that life is beautiful. Life doesn’t change. You have a day, and a night, and a month, and a year. We people change – we can be miserable or we can be happy. It’s what you make of your life.
He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.
Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw out the rotten ones and forget about them while you enjoy eating the ones that are good! There are two kinds of people: those who choose to throw out the good cherries and wallow in all the rotten ones, and those who choose to throw out all the rotten ones and savor all the good ones.
That’s what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they’ll fit right in your pocket.
The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..
For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.
Tattoos are like stories – they’re symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
A little stupid is like a little forest fire. If you happen upon some stupid, please stomp it out before it spreads.
Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have—and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.
Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.
I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
My formula for life is very simple: in the morning, wake up; at night, go to sleep. In between I try and occupy myself as best I can.
Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.
I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.
The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us — there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.
Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
I think we all wear armor. I think those who don’t are fools, risking the pain of being wounded by the sharp edges of the world, over and over again. But if I’ve learned anything from those fools, it is that to be vulnerable is a strength most of us fear. It takes courage to let down your armor, to welcome people to see you as you are.
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
No,’ Nico said. ‘Getting a second life is one thing. Making it a better life, that’s the trick.’ As soon as he said it, Nico realized he could’ve been talking about himself. He decided not to bring that up.
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
‘Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
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.
You’ll be fine. You’re 25. Feeling [unsure] and lost is part of your path. Don’t avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it. Take a breath. You’ll be okay. Even if you don’t feel okay all the time.
Watching my back is the perfect opportunity to stick a knife in it.
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.