Quotes Tagged "life-lessons"

We create a meaningful life by what we accept as true and by what we create in the pursuit of truth, love, beauty, and adoration of nature.

I think one can tell a lot about a person from the way he chooses to let the stub of his cigarette burn out...

Goodness could be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

One man gathers what another man spills

How long had it had been since she'd thought back on the evenings around the fire, number games at the kitchen table, or listening to her father sing? Too long. Yes, there had been bad times. And she had tallied them like figures in a column, not remembering to factor in the good. She had doctored the books.

From the most insignificant of actions can come the most serious of consequences.

You can't worry about the future so much that you miss out on the present.

I believe you spend your life in some kind of hiding place, and you think you're safe from danger and harm, and one of these days you'll wake up and realize that the thing you're keeping yourself from is fullness.

Sometimes the weak will last for years, while the strong will suddenly collapse and die.

To join the others was to care, and to care was to live and to suffer.

Recovery is hard. Regret is harder.

Respecting requests, rules and privacy is a universal law. You break that basic etiquette 101, you're seriously flawed.

You need to be buried deep in the dirt before you can find your bloom.

Wer einmal sich selbst gefunden, kann nichts auf dieser Welt mehr verlieren.

Choose battles that you can win without losing your heart and your soul.

Live each day as if it were your last, for one day, you're sure to be right.

I guess god simply wants me to meet many wrong people before I meet the right one.

Life is like a steering wheel, it only takes one small move to change your entire direction.

Learn to recognize good luck when it's waving at you, hoping to get your attention.