Tag: Life Quotes

“I don’t believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience.” – Sharon Stone

“Each relationship you have with another person reflects the relationship you have with yourself.” – Alice Deville

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller

“What drives you? What makes you excited about each day? What would you do for free just to be doing it? What would you never want to retire from doing? Is there something that you would give up everything else for all your material possessions and comforts – just to do because you feel so good doing it? If you haven’t found the work God intends for you, ask yourself these questions.” – Nick Vujicic, Unstoppable: The Incredible Power of Faith In Action

“Just because something is fun for someone else doesn’t make it fun for you.” – Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.” – Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“Throw a seed in the seemingly empty earth and watch life spring forth from the emptiness. Think of the creative artist. She knows that for all her searching, concentrating, and disciplined effort, the really exciting breakthroughs will come as inspirations from the emptiness.” – Laurence Boldt, Zen and the Art of Making a Living

“As you go through life, Falk, there will be no shortage of people who will tell you how to live. They’ll have all the answers for you, what you should do, what you shouldn’t do. Don’t argue with them. You know, say “Yes, that’s a brilliant, brilliant idea,” and then do what you want. And whenever you’re right, strive for originality. But if you have to steal, steal from the best. Oh, oh, and if you take very good care of your styptic pencil and dry it after every shave, it will last longer than most relationships that you’re in.” – Anything Else, 2003

“Make the most of the time you have. Be deliberate. Take it step by step. Control what you can; forget the rest.” – Laurence Boldt, Zen and the Art of Making a Living

“Life is like a dance and we’re partners. Setbacks, delays, and detours? Heck, they’re just like some of the steps in the mambo, tango, and cha-cha. If you dissected the movements and saw them without regard to the rest of the dance, everyone would look like total dorks. But when you see the big picture…..poetry in motion.

In life, setbacks, delays, and detours are often just my way of keeping you for something way better. Don’t let them discourage you, don’t lose faith, and whatever you do, don’t stop dancing.”  – Mike Dooley, Notes From The Universe