Life-lessons Quotes

Ah, but I was so much older thenI’m younger than that now

If you want to know a man, dig in his firepit...Basically, it meant that you could judge a lot about...

All I do know is that as we age the weight of our unsorted baggage becomes heavier...much heavier. W...

If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

One thing you'll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant ab...

There are some kinds of wounds you can get, internal injuries. You don't know what's wrong with you,...

Intentions are nothing

Did I know that the reason Hitler had been able to slaughter six million Jews without too much compl...

it's good to have things done withwhen they don't workit's also good not to hateor even forgetthe pe...

Goodness could be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability fo...

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions ...

Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?” Aunty Ifeka said. “Your lif...

The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place...

I always laugh at the term 'Cinderella story', because, if you ask me, it doesn't matter what life y...

If life is a journey, It can take you anywhere you wanna go.

I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not to do what we want bu...

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

First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... ...

I wake up, I feel the inescapable oppression of the sunlight pouring through my bedroom window, and ...

Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the thing...

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure, death will. The...

I used to want to understand how the world worked. Little things, like heavy stuff goes at the botto...

Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagree...

You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.

Not soon, as late as the approach of my ninetieth year, I felt a door opening in me and I entered th...

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not...

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

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

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by control...

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.

This is how it is in life and love. In life and love we are with people for a while, and then we joi...

I have no rules. For me, it's a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and I...

In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from begi...

Initially the snow had been beautiful, but not so much now. The softness and sparkle still charmed, ...

Anyway, in those years, I was happy, as to one extent or another I have always been happy. The fores...

If you're going to keep the music in you, Jonah, you've got to play a little bit every day purely fo...

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life they merely get used to it.

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever ...

Sometimes we all forget that the world itself is paradise, and there has been much of late to enoura...

It's not about what it is, but about what it can become.

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

If Pierre Bon-Bon had his failings--and what great man has not a thousand?--if Pierre Bon-Bon, I say...

What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it

You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.

Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams.

The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things th...

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us woul...

Some people believe that to find happiness, you should live each day of your life as if it's your la...

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & ...

I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather...

I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswise across his character and di...

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that...

To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ...

The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she l...

If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage,...

Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which...

Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior m...

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

Hurry up! Do it – get it done. You got work to do. Don’t put this off and don’t take the long view. ...

Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.

Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your ow...

Just to say 'I believe' or 'I do not doubt' does not mean that you understand and see. To force ones...

Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you.

They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humili...

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

Kelly was not going to remove her glasses. No matter what the television said about it being safe to...

...and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shi...

Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

I just know Maycomb. I'm not in the least sensitive about it, but good Lord, I'm certainly aware of ...

If a man says to you, "This is the truth," and you believe him, and you discover what he says is not...

Don't you oh well me,sir," Miss Maudie replied, recognizing Jem's fatalistic noises, "you are not ol...

He might have hurt me a little,' Atticus conceded, 'but sn, you'll understand folks a little better ...

There are all kinds of things we have to deal with in life,' Eri finally said. 'And one thing always...

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. ...

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among ...

If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one wit...

Tendencies. Yougottendencies. Soevenifyoudideverythingoveragain, yourwholelife, yougottendenciestodo...

Things change everyday. With each new dawn, it is not the same world as before. And you’re not the s...

Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went th...

In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t g...

Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it might go on

When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win. -Henny Youngman, comedian and violinist (190...

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

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

Someday you'll find the placeIt's the place where love takes over hateThen you'll see all the things...

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.

Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end

One will probably have to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

It’s strange how things happen in life: you live with someone for a long time, you are on the best o...