Quotes Tagged "life-lessons"

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.

Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which may make you misjudge the thickness of their skin, and fail to worry about insulting them. But should you offend their honor and their pride, they will overwhelm you with a violence that seems sudden and extreme given their slowness to anger. If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impudent or their offer ridiculous.

Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are

Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

You can’t make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about yourself.

When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.

We do not get to choose how we start out in life. We do not get to choose the day we are born or the family we are born into, what we are named at birth, what country we are born in, and we do not get to choose our ancestry. All these things are predetermined by a higher power. By the time you are old enough to start making decisions for yourself, a lot of things in your life are already in place. It’s important, therefore, that you focus on the future, the only thing that you can change.

I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn't hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming.

You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

Nothing in this world happens by chance.