Quotes about life-lessons

Matshona Dhliwayo -

If you want to be strong, exercise; if you want to be wise, study; if you want to be happy, smile; and if you want to be invincible, love.

Matshona Dhliwayo -

Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden.

Matshona Dhliwayo -

You spend the beginning part of your life with your mother, so love her; the middle part of your life with your girlfriend, so care for her; and the end part of your life with your wife, so adore her.

Rasheed Ogunlaru -

It's is not enough just to follow your heart. Use it in every breath and in each step. Meet and greet everyone with it. Put it into all you do, every dish you eat and all you create. Then your life and those of those you come into contact with will be truly rich - beyond material and transient things.

Tamara Stamenkovic -

Let's fall in love and screw up our lives even more?

Matshona Dhliwayo -

Love is the luckiest tenant in the world, living in the hearts of men and women rent free.

Matshona Dhliwayo -

Love makes you the richest person in the world, no matter how poor you are.

Matshona Dhliwayo -

Love does these three things effectively: multiplies joy, divides trouble, subtracts grief, and adds peace.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

A reader knows the mind of sacred souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Three great lessons for my children; love God, love yourself and love your neighbour as yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Devote yourself to reading, learning and writing.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

When I read books, it is like I have met the sacred souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

We are inspiration to one another

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

The right time is now, pursue you dreams!

Lin-Manuel Miranda -

[WASHINGTON]It’s alright, you want to fight, you’ve got a hungerI was just like you when I was youngerHead full of fantasies of dyin’ like a martyr?[HAMILTON]Yes[WASHINGTON]Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder

Bernard Kelvin Clive -

Life teaches us many lessons daily, even from our mishaps, only if we pay attention

Lailah Gifty Akita -

It is better to hug than shake hands.

Tess Alley - The Divinity Bureau

When life breaks you down, you have two choices. You can either leave the pieces on the floor... or you can rebuild yourself so that you’re stronger than before.

Stefan Molyneux -

Record what you can, pursue your passions, connect with the world, fight the good fight, defy evil, shine incandescently as best you can. And it doesn't matter what field it's in but, it does matter that we leave something that accumulates over time.

Imania Margria -

I love being high. High on Life, High on Love, High on Hope, and High on Faith.

Imania Margria -

Don't try to reach perfection. Just try to reach an inner and outer realization of self.

Micheline Jean Loui -

You know we are living in dangerous time when the act of kindness is revered as an act of heroism.

Imania Margria - Secrets of My Heart

Our hearts may be strong and resilient against the trials of life, but they become weak and fragile against the trials of love.

Chinonye J. Chidolue -

We avoid risks in life only to die, and end up facing the greatest risk which is having lived life risking nothing at all.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

As I explored my soul, now I know I have survived schizophrenia; hearing voices, reduced social engagement, emotional expression and lack of motivation.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Passion is a realm of flow like a continuous flowing stream.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

You ought to explore, search and seek the boundless possibilities in life.

Mansi Laus Deo -

We are just too blinded by the phrase, "grow old together" and learning its meaning from hopeless movies and novels that glorify undying love and unbelievable understanding. Don't you think? Reality is... Love dies. People change. And we grow old together in present. Today, tomorrow, and every day after that.It's not about eternity. It's not till death do us part.It's about today. This day. And I believe only in today.So, come! Let's grow old together today!

Mansi Laus Deo -

You deserve someone so much better.""You will find someone better so soon that you wont even know.""I told you, he/she wasn't good enough for you.""Oh c'mon! He/she wasn't the ONE for you.""Things will soon be fine. It's just a phase.""He/she will never find anyone better than you. Let him/her rot in hell."Gradually, you realize that all these are STANDARD statements that everybody makes to everyone. Because they don't have anything else to say.But, only your heart knows what you actually want t

Abhijit Naskar -

Be your own Guru.

David Alejandro Fearnhead -

At 23 I thought I knew everything, by 33 I realised I knew nothing.

Nurudeen Ushawu -

While we insists on destroying the world, God is doing incredible things to save it.

Sultan Alsasi -

Coaching is like a magic mirror, reflecting what you are thinking, feeling and saying about everything in life. By working together, you'll understand your own mirror and break all the boundaries to become limitless

Sophie Kinsella - My Not So Perfect Life

Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too. Of course they do. And every time you see your own crappy truth and feel despair and think, 'Is this my life?', remember: It's not. Everyone's got a bright-and-shiny, even if it's hard to find sometimes.

Neale Donald Walsch -

Life is a creation, not a discovery

Giridhar Alwar - My Quest For Happy Life

You cannot find replacements for everything. Few things happens only once in your life time. So value everything that you got.

Elif Shafak - The Forty Rules of Love

Every winner is inclined to think he will be triumphant forever. Every loser tends to fear that he is going to be beaten forever. But both are wrong for the same reason: Everything changes except the face of god.

Gary Rudz -

Perspective, patience, & trust. One derived from the past, one applied now, and one for the future. Powerful allies for your journey in life.

Alexander McCall Smith - Morality for Beautiful Girls

Mma Ramotswe tucked the cheque safely away in her bodice. Modern business methods were all very well, she thought, but when it came to the safeguarding of money there were some places which had yet to be bettered.

Mara Wilson - Where Am I Now?

The idea of living forever makes me uncomfortable, and at this point I've lived long enough and seen enough Twilight Zone episodes to know that there's always a catch.

Giridhar Alwar - My Quest For Happy Life

You are the greatest thing that ever happen to you, Life is more important than anything else. Live the life to the fullest.

Jessica Hagy - How to Be Interesting: An Instruction Manual

Your greatest accomplishments, no matter how impressive you think them to be, are some else's worst nightmare. Your most prized possession is another man's disgusting chunk of trash. Be careful what you brag about.

Andy Harglesis -

Credence can establish guidance in endeavors.

Giridhar Alwar - My Quest For Happy Life

When one makes you happy, the other makes you worried. Its just a balancing phenomena. So be the same person what ever the situation you are in.

Anurag Shourie -

There is nothing more agonising than the memory of good times when you are going through a difficult period in life. Life moves in only one direction - forward, but the memoirs of years gone by keep on haunting one’s soul till the time one is alive. Nostalgia can be more painful than a surgeon’s knife.

Jacquelyn Nicole Davis - Trace The Grace: A Memoir

Though my mental illness is more likened to a big, nasty green monster than something heart-wrenchingly beautiful, I think I have learned many wonderful lessons from my many afflictions.

Carlos Wallace - Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings

Don't let life's challenges discourage you. Some things are just out of your control. Make it work for you! The most painful lessons of the past can teach you how to survive in the present .

Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith: a True Story

Because, from the beginning , God said, 'I'm gonna put this world into your hands. If I run everything, then that's not you.' So we were created with a piece of divinity inside us, but with this thing called free will, and I think God watches us everyday, lovingly, praying we will make the right choices.

Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith: a True Story

Because, from the beginning, God said, 'I'm gonna put this world into your hands. If I run everything, then that's not you.' So we were created with a piece of divinity inside us, but with this thing called free will, and I think God watches us everyday, lovingly, praying we will make the right choices.

Vidura -

What is there that forgiveness cannot achieve?

Manoj Arora - Dream On: Every setback is a little nudge from HIM to Dream On

With every breath you take, someone just took their last. Stop complaining about life. It has given you much more than what you appreciate.

Sanjeev Himachali -

Our life is all about personal choices we make. We choose the life we live.

Jonathan Heatt -

Life's too short to cavort with fork-tongued carnivores.

Jennifer Ryan - The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

If we don't think about our death until we die, how can we decide how we want to live?

Wayne Gerard Trotman -

It is a rule of life that we eventually become victims of the evil we do to others.

Jennifer Ryan - The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

I took a deep breath of the syrupy sweetness of summer, suffused with bees and birds, and I thought to myself how beautiful this world can be. How lucky we are to be here, to be part of it, for however long we have.

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Lies are never forgotten, they go on and they grow

Rainer Maria Rilke - The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

As once the winged energy of delightcarried you over childhood's dark abysses,now beyond your own life build the greatarch of unimagined bridges.Wonders happen if we can succeedin passing through the harshest danger;but only in a bright and purely grantedachievement can we realize the wonder.To work with Things in the indescribablerelationship is not too hard for us;the pattern grows more intricate and subtle,and being swept along is not enough.Take your practiced powers and stretch them outunti

Rajasaraswathii - Success-Talks : For Evolution of Your Success

If you go to the workplace thinking that you are a mere employee, you can only be an employee. If you go with an Entrepreneur consciousness, you can definitely become an Entrepreneur

Reshma Alatnuka -

Live in the now

Uma Shanker -

Life teaches us two important things - we are careless when we are young and by the time we get old, it is too late to be careful!!

Candice Galek -

Follow your intuition not other people's words

Rob Lowe - Stories I Only Tell My Friends

Everyone knows that the teenage years are a time ofprofound emotion. The moody, exuberant, passionate,lethargic teen is a figure that has a special place in the hall of fame of clichés—and for good reason. It’s all true. When we ourselves are teenagers, we are living life as it comes. There is no point in reflection. We are so inexperienced, there is very little to reflect on. If we fail a big test, we just move on. We win an award and we smile and say thank you. We fall in love and it’s a thril

Wendy James - shame

Life has played her like a cat weaving between her legs, pretending to be tame, friendly, before sinking its claws into soft, vulnerable flesh.

Cody Sands -

Since good days don’t always last, make sure that you’ve made the best of those days while you still have them.

Luminita D. Saviuc - 15 Things You Should Give Up to Be Happy: An Inspiring Guide to Discovering Effortless Joy

The story of your past doesn’t have to become the story of your life.

Jordan Hoechlin -

One day i will leave the world and never come back,_You will cry when you see my number is off.._You will miss me when you sit alone,_You won't be able to hear my laugh and voice again...there will be no more me to _Irritate,_Tease,_make u laugh and say sorry _Tears might run out of your eyes but i will be gone long and forever so pleaze enjoy my company as much as u can before i close my eyes forever!!!

Danny Stone -

The only thing that comes to those who wait is leftovers.

Jellis Vaes -

Look, you can say that life is meaningless, because in the end we are all no more than dust in the wind and all that we do will ultimately be forgotten in hundreds or thousands of years’ time. But do you really want to live with that belief? Give yourself a higher meaning, give yourself a purpose why you were given this life. I am not a religious person but I do believe that we are all given this life for a reason, and that death is only the beginning of something bigger. Call me crazy, I don’t

William Wynn Westcott -

There is no such thing as a miracle. That is, there is never an absolute reversal of any natural law. Every event, however unexpected by us, who are all more or less grossly ignorant of Nature and of Nature's laws, is the result of pre-existing causes, which develop results in ways and to extents strictly conformable to the energies set in motion. Supernormal events maybe, but nothing is supernatural.

Sofia Reyes -

Giving up is just saying that ice cream shouldn't be ice cream because one person says it isn't ice cream, giving up is like saying that hot dogs are hot cats. Giving up is like saying burgers are nasty which they aren't. What I'm trying to say is giving up is not a pathway to success giving up is just an easier way to just fail in life, now that I'm done saying that I'm going to go get food.

Anurag Shourie - Half A Shadow

Tears can ruin the handiwork of the best beautician.

Anurag Shourie - Half A Shadow

Destiny plays its cards in a way that no one can comprehend.

Cynthia Mendenhall - and Fun

No matter how strong or strong-willed you are, you cannot live a stressful, maxed-out life without that pace eventually biting you in the butt. It is necessary to take breaks, set parameters, and be kind to yourself if you want to continue making an impact in your little corner of the world.

M. Suddain - Hunters & Collectors

Gladys, darling, light of my life. There are principles higher than mere survival. It’s not enough to live this life; there must be a quality to living. There are minimum standards. If a man can’t get an upgrade when almost every other guest in the entire hotel has been brutally murdered, then something is wrong.

Jennifer Frick-Ruppert - Spirit Quest

Next to the day when I was almost shot by that arrow, the worst day of my life was when I was almost eaten.

Plato - Republic: Books 1-5

For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation.

Alex Haditaghi - As I Leave Her

If people are not laughing at your Goals, your Goals are not big enough!

Philip DeFranco -

If we as people view everone who's not a part of our group as the monster, and we treat them like the monster - they either become the monster, or we're actually the monster.

Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana - MBA

Being "nowhere" is a step towards getting somewhere.Today, if you feel like you are nowhere, you are in a powerful position to choose the "somewhere" you want to go.

Susan Samaroo -

When things don't always go our way, we have two choices in dealing with the situations. We can focus on the fact that things didn't go how we had hoped they would and let life pass us by, or two, we can make the best out of the situation and know that these are only temporary setbacks and find the lessons that are to be learned

Bhavik Sarkhedi -

It's all about money. Sometimes it is merciful, sometimes it is magnificent and sometimes it is moderate

Neil A. Hogan -

Run! Life's too short to walk. Unless you don't know where you're running to, then move very slowly.

Kayla Krantz - The Council

I'm my own person, and in that I'm unique. Pain, anguish, those are all just part of the experience. The more you go through, the stronger you become.

Baz Black - Ink Princess

A simple flap of a butterfly's wings can change the course of your destiny forever.

Ravi Zacharias -

Through technology the whole world has now become the media's parish, talk-show hosts the prophets, actors and musicians the priests, and any script will do for the Scriptures as long as moral constraints are removed. Sitting before a well-lit box is all the cultic performance needs, and each person can enthrone his or her own self as divine. Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has

Rajesh Walecha -

Desires are our way and Peace is God's Way

Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith: a True Story

When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say, 'The whole world is mine.' "But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson." What lesson? I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us.

Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith: a True Story

So, have we solved the secret of happiness? "I believe so," he said. Are you going to tell me? "Yes. Ready?" Ready. "Be satisfied." That's it? "Be grateful." That's it? "For what you have. For the love you receive. And for what God has given you." That's it? He looked me in the eye. Then he sighed deeply. "That's it.

Michael A. Smith - Spiritual Warfare A Survival Guide To Daily Living

don't make the mistake of not following your dreams as most do,but plan out your day and except change

Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana - MBA

When you consistently hold onto your passion with faith and unconditionality regardless of what anyone says or does, the very fire that ignites your passion, will pave a way for your dream to manifest in the physical universe.

Siddhartha Mukherjee - The Gene: An Intimate History

If we define "beauty" as having blue eyes (and only blue eyes), then we will, indeed, find a "gene for beauty." If we define "intelligence" as the performance on only one kind of test, then we will, indeed, find a "gene for intelligence." The genome is only a mirror for the breadth or narrowness of human imagination.

Kemi Sogunle - Beyond the Pain by Kemi Sogunle

Staying in an unhealthy relationship that robs you of peace of mind, is not being loyal. It is choosing to hurt yourself mentally, emotionally and sometimes, physically.

Val Uchendu -

Cold feet under a warm blanket, steam over an empty mug--rain splatters on dry window pane--open journals of closed memories... tears of laughter and joy of pain... schmaltz of diametric morning.

A.J. Garces -

Beware of those who speak ill of others in your presence don't be surprised of what they say about you in your absence.

Ashley Uzzell - What Money Can't Buy

He changed me. He helped me see who I really was and realize that I didn’t like that person. He made me want to be different. He made me want to be better to myself and everyone else.

Mitch Albom - Tuesdays with Morrie

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too---even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.

Joe Jordan -

Like the three points in a triangle, knowing your value, maintaining your value, and getting compensated for your value are essential in building professional stability and longevity. If the compensation or the opportunity sounds too good to be true — it probably is. Sooner or later, reality prevails over rhetoric.

Joe Jordan - Sharpen Your Life: 52 Strategic Moments to Create a Lifetime of Success

Effective life management isn’t about finding more time to fill; it’s about recognizing you don’t have to do anything you do not choose to do. Hiding a choice behind a “have to” is irresponsible. Everything filling the white space in your life is there because you chose to put it there. We always have the power to say, “No.” We just need to be ready to live with the consequences.

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