Quotes Tagged "life-lessons"

If experience is the best teacher, there's nothing that comes close to the experience of life.

Things can be cleaned and replaced. Great moments cannot afford to be lost.

What I think is not necessarily, what I feel and what I feel is not necessarily, what I think.

We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

I’m just saying it doesn’t always have to be spirits and magic. Sometimes hauntings are in your mind. It doesn’t make them less real.

Some things need to be left unsaid.

He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.

You get towards the end of life—no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment of pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong?

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

When you're down, remember your triumphs. [...] Sometimes you get in trouble and crash. Other times: just a bumpy landing.

Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it.

Big house, big car, big breast, big life, big this and big that; what is so big about living big? Live on KISS principle not BIG principle.

You can’t really yell at your boyfriend for stealing your seat and your best friend. You also can’t yell at your best friend for stealing your boyfriend. Or you can…but Hi seemed like a much easier way to start the morning.

(...)best of luck, avoid roasted cabbage, don't eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!

In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in the long years after, they can be called up in detail, and every emotion that was stirred by them can be lived through anew; these are the tragedies of life.

Happiness comes from solving problems. [...] Happiness is a constant work-in-progress. The solutions to today's problems will lay the foundation for tomorrow's problems.

Life is not measured by time. It is measured by moments.

Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.

Every relationship that has hit a crossroads has asked, “What is it that you want from me?

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.