Quotes Tagged "life-lessons"

Entrepreneurship is a lonely road to greatness.

Life isn’t won and lost on the first day.

Excuses are barriers between dreams and actions.

The only thing you’re entitled to in life is nothing.

Don’t demand respect; earn it. Don’t expect loyalty; build it.

Destiny is not written until you accept things to happen.

Measure your success with your happiness, not with other's opinions.

Contentment is the highest spiritual discipline. Egyes and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (ancient holy scriptures of the world) can help you reach the goal as quickly as contentment can. Contentment has a four happiness, it extinguishes the ego and expand the knowledge.

There are no guidelines to being a perfect person, as perfect doesn’t really exist, only our views of what perfect is—there are no guidelines to living life the right way. We learn through experience, through trial and error, and it makes us wiser in the end.

I’m learning that by constantly worrying about the things I don’t have I’m failing to to appreciate the things that I do. And those things will take time. I’m learning to cherish what I do have, while working towards what I want. I’m learning to be supportive and cheerful for my friends when they reach major milestones – and to be a little less envious while doing so.

Sometimes when you least expect it, the tables turn and that scary feeling that has taken hold of you for so long somehow turns into hope

I am forever grateful for not knowing—What would have been. WHAT WILL BE holds none of those bittersweet pangs and it is lit w joy.

My theory is that hope is a form of madness. A benevolent one, sure, but madness all the same. Like an irrational superstition--broken mirrors and so forth--hope's not based on any kind of logic, it's just unfettered optimism, grounded in nothing but faith in things beyond our control.

To get where you want to be, you must first know where you are.

She'd stood by that creed. No softness, because the world wasn't soft; lots of laughter, because if you were in on the joke, the joke couldn't be on you; And no wanting what you couldn't take, because the world never gave. Or so she'd thought.

Do not doubt eternity of your existence,

Death of a beloved leaves a deep hole in our heart.

What is it about us that we take such inspiration from the lives of those who triumph over tragedy? Is it as simple as that we love a story with a happy ending, or does it go deeper than that? Could it be because we never really know if, within ourselves, we have the strength to bear such tragedy and survive such intense grief? Or is it that we too actually do know pain—and along with more than a few tears—we know from experience, that after the pain, there does again come a time for joy, because we have our own story. And could it be that for everything we’ve been through, that no one really knows us—especially, if we keep it all a secret.

If you’re not changing forwards, you’re changing backwards because we are always changing.

The sacred wandering cannot be rushed. It is a life transition. It requires patience and endurance. There are valuable lessons to be learned.