Category: Life Quotes

“We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led us to the present.” – Adlai Stevenson

“I will get in touch with the field of pure potentiality by taking time each day to be silent, to just Be, to commune with nature and to silently witness the intelligence within every living thing. I will sit silently and watch a sunset, or listen to the sound of the ocean or a stream, or simply smell the scent of a flower. I will enjoy the life of unbounded creativity.” – Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success.

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – attributed to John Lennon (Singer, 1940-1980)

“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.” – Audrey Hepburn

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” – Wiliam Faulkner

“Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge. If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.” – Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found In Accra

“Whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don’t matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it done.” – Jack Youngblood

Life and death, energy and peace. If I stop today, it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I’ve walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, in it, and above. – Gia Marie Carangi (1960-1986), Gia (1998 film by Angelina Jolie)

 

“God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.” – Henry Ward Beecher