Life Quotes - Page 7

• We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Trust, Beautiful

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  Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Truth, Memorable

  "Know Your Limits - Then Ignore Them". Book by John Mason, August 1999.

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• It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Tragedy, Tragic

  Carl Gustav Jung (1959). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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  If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

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• To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

  Arundhati Roy

  Sad, Romantic, Respect

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The Algebra of Infinite Justice”, p.24, Penguin Books India

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• A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

  Epicurus

  Easy, Possession, Epicureanism

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• Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Let It Go, Four Agreements, Away From You

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, 1997.

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• You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

  Jane Seymour

  Happiness, Witty, Believe

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

  Golda Meir

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

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• Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Motivational, Choices Made, Honor

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• Learn from yesterday, live for today.

  Albert Einstein

  New Year, Hope, Good Day

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• It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Being Strong, Wisdom, Courage

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• You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Change, Being Yourself

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Oct 08, 2011

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• Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

  Shimon Peres

  Death, Positive Thinking, Positive Attitude

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• Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

  Agnes de Mille

  Faith, Creativity, Dark

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

  William Feather

  Thank You, Appreciation, Kindness

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• To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Wisdom, Future, Hiking

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (ZAMM)". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

  Albert Einstein

  Success, Dance, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.326, Princeton University Press

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  And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

  Roald Dahl

  Inspirational, Believe, I Hate You

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.8, Penguin

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• We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Regret

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  Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life is an adventure, dare it.

  Mother Teresa

  Adventure, Dare, Life Is

  "Life Is". Poem by Mother Teresa, www.beliefnet.com.

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  The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

  Eminem

  Love, Crazy, Bad Ass

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Dream

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Everything in life... has to have balance.

  Donna Karan

  Inspire, Balance

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