Quotes Tagged "life-lessons"

Women don't like to be told what to do. They like to be the ones telling us what to do. You want her to do something, you're gonna have to go about it a different way.

Give it air & let the scar on your soul reveal itself, because, like the body, it too was made to heal itself.

At the end of the day, what is life? A beautiful journey. Why must we take it so seriously and not enjoy every moment of it? Why not let any person have his chance in anything he desires? ...Why not vanish the hate and forgive? Why not follow our dreams and make them reality?

The grass is greener on the other side, but often this is just an illusion. Most probably, everyone is as unhappy as you.

It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.

Only to the degree that people have what they need, that they are healthy and unafraid, that their lives are varied, interesting, meaningful, productive, joyous, can we begin to judge, or even guess, their nature. Few people, adults or children, now live such lives.

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.

Is the sunrise superior just because it goes before the sunset with a day and sunset goes before the sunrise with a night? Could there be day without night and sunrise without sunset, life without death?

A fellow learns a lot of this fancy stuff that Ralph calls philosophy when he spends a few winters shut up in a cabin with just one other guy, trapping.

Dreams are the catalyst to goals whether it be to heal, to grow, to learn, to create, to imagine what could be or to strive to make it come to fruition. Dreams are the drive to succeed and to do the impossible and make it real and possible.

Don’t ever think of any person who’s trying to hurt you and harm you. Obviously, they don’t deserve your love, but you don’t deserve to feel hate because of them. Ignore them like they don’t exist, but do what you can to protect yourself.

Every person has their own timeline of success. Others succeed sooner others later. As in everything, both timelines have both advantages and disadvantages.

Independent thinkers have always been a threat to those whose courage lies in the masses.

Be grateful to God, every year you live.

Humanity should eliminate processes that base one’s happiness in another’s unhappiness. Moral people follow this direction, but there are still people with malicious intentions that must change.

Unfortunately, human perception is not very developed. Everyone sees whatever they know or what they want, without considering the limitations of their knowledge or what is moral in the world. As a result, humans are a flawd species.

Education isn't education when you use it as makeup to cover the scars of your insecurities

If you've told a little boy that Big Boys don't cry, you've marginalized his voice

If you truly are seeking answers of wholeness, why do you continue to engage in conversations rooted in partiality?