Quotes Tagged "life-experience"

Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.

Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.

Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.

Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing.

Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.

I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

The easiest way to be reborn is to live and feel life everyday

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

On the top of Cadair Idris, I felt how happy a man might be with a little money and a sane intellect, and reflected with astonishment and pity on the madness of the multitude.

We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.

If you're reading this, I hope God opens incredible doors for your life this year. Greatness is upon you. You must believe it though.

Forgiving yourself, believing in yourself and choosing to love yourself are the best gifts one could receive.

The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life.

We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about and don’t understand. [...] There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.