Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure. We must be our own before we can be another’s. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear you will make one. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance.
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles. Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. Success isn’t about how much money you make it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives. A tiger doesn’t lose sleep over the opinion of sheep. Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. Experience: that most brutal of teachers. When I was young I used to admire intelligent people as I grow older, I admire kind people. You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you. If you are not willing to look stupid, nothing great is ever going to happen to you. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all. Don’t waste words on people who deserve your silence.
To talk for hours and about what’s really important in life. To speak without regret or fear of consequence. Bound by no obligations, barred by no human limitations. To sit under the moon with all the time in the world, the full-speed train that is our lives slowing to a crawl. About love, about life, about anything, about everything. I have the deepest affection for intellectual conversations. Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it. Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know. You will be grateful that things didn’t work out the way you once wanted them to. You may not see it today or tomorrow, but you will look back in a few years and be absolutely perplexed and awed by how every little thing added up and brought you somewhere wonderful – or where you always wanted to be. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better. We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. Most people run because deep down they want to be chased. It’s a sign that something in our lives needs to change. Pain doesn’t just show up in our lives for no reason. I know this transformation is painful, but you’re not falling apart you’re just falling into something different, with a new capacity to be beautiful. Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving. You’ll never really see how toxic someone is until you breathe fresher air. Encouragement should come from the inside. It’s not up to other people to keep you encouraged. When nobody else compliments, then compliment yourself. When nobody celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. Each new chapter of our lives requests an old part of us to fall and a new part of us to rise. We do not heal the past by dwelling there we heal the past by living fully in the present. Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.
Heartbreaks, loneliness, the curse of a materialistic world, happiness and a deep appreciation of love have inspired us to become stronger, better people.Īnd they have also inspired some of us to put everything we’ve gone through into words that have become mind-blowing quotes.ġ. It is a beautifully balanced journey consisting of innumerable obstacles and amazing things that you need to experience in order to find your true self. It forces us to stand up when we’re feeling down and it makes us humble when we’re too proud.