“Death is lighter than a feather, but Duty is heavier than a mountain.”
― Robert Jordan, To the Blight
“Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie
“You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After
“Everybody know death is inevitably coming, but it never fails to catch everybody by surprise everytime one is going”
― Hlovate, Contengan Jalanan
“We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.”
― John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“The only certainty life contains is death.”
― Patricia Briggs, When Demons Walk
“We all didn't come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don't leave it at the same time.”
― Lurlene McDaniel, Too Young to Die
“In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.”
― Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan
“She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.”
― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
“Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
“Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.”
― Madeleine L'Engle
“sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess
“It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Host
“I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.”
― Marlene Dietrich, Marlene Dietrich's Abc
“Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.”
― Doris Mortman
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.”
― Mary Tyler Moore
“He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
While it may be sad and depressing to be lonely for a year or perhaps two, it may very well be the best time of your life. Because once you find the patient, non-possessive, honest and confident girl that you know you are, then you won't be as much focused on finding a boy than you are on pursuing your lifelong dreams and moving up in your career.
.......collected
“Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.”
― Helen Keller
“We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
“After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
- While it may be sad and depressing to be lonely for a year or perhaps two, it may very well be the best time of your life. Because once you find the patient, non-possessive, honest and confident girl that you know you are, then you won't be as much focused on finding a boy than you are on pursuing your lifelong dreams and moving up in your career.
.......collected
“A person who cannot handle setbacks will never handle victories either.”
― Orrin Woodward
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” – Steve Jobs
- “Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish it.” – Unknown
- “When you say “It’s hard”, it actually means “I’m not strong enough to fight for it”. Stop saying its hard. Think positive!” - Unknown
-“Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop.” - Unknown
-“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield
- "Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoiding discomfort... Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows."
- " if you let yourself be overcome with sorrow, you will drown in it" - 12 years a slave
- Life is too ironic. It takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to value presence.
- “Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.”
― Osho
"We obtain things out of need but sometimes we come to care too much because of these things. Therefore, owning somethings also means becoming bound to something. And the more things you have, the more tied up you are to the things
__Sutta Nipata
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- “Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders
- “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein
- “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
― Mark Twain
- “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain
- “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
- “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa
- “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin
- “I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”
― Marilyn Monroe
- “Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
- “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
- “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings
- “I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.”
― Mother Teresa
- “Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”
― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight
- “If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”
― Marilyn Monroe
- “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain
- “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
- “It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, Alchemist
- “We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
― Marilyn Monroe
- “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
- “Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket
- “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway
- “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman
- “May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift
- “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery
- “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- “A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever”
― Dave Matthews Band
- “I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- “They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
- “Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
- “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
- “My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
- “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
- “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
- “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
- “I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
- “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan
- “Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
― Mark Twain
- “Stupid people are dangerous.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
- “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
- “You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
- “Life is to be enjoyed, not endured”
― Gordon B. Hinckley
- “If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn
- “It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”
― Walt Disney Company
- “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
― James Baldwin
- “Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
- “Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress
- “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell
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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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A promise made is a debt unpaid.
- Sleep is the best meditation.
- We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
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Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
- A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
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“Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
- “You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
- “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
― Maya Angelou
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“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
― Gautama Buddha
- “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
― Nicholas Sparks
- “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
― Robert Frost
- “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
― Confucius
- “Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
- “Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou
- “It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
― Lou Holtz
- “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin
- “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
- “You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
― Edward Albee
- “It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.”
― Marilyn Monroe
- “It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it's not so overwhelming.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
- “Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
― Allen Ginsberg
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“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
- “If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere.”
― Marilyn Monroe
- “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye
- “Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard Feynman
- “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick
- “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
― Oscar Wilde
- “I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
- “I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
― Maya Angelou
- “Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest
- “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
- “The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller
- “Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
― Rob Reiner
- “It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
- “Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
― Paulo Coelho
- “Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
- “Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.
But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
- “When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish
- “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers
- “Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”
― Bill Watterson
- “I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead
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“You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don't know it, all of that doesn't even matter. Every second that you spend on doubting your worth, every moment that you use to criticize yourself; is a second of your life wasted, is a moment of your life thrown away. It's not like you have forever, so don't waste any of your seconds, don't throw even one of your moments away.”
― C. JoyBell C.
- “I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.”
― Karl Pilkington
- “Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.”
― Emm Cole, Keeping Merminia
- “The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.”
― Colum McCann, TransAtlantic
- “What haunts me far more than anything I’ve ever done are the things I haven’t done.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
- “To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided.”
― Orrin Woodward
- “Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly…but merely to be LIVED. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically LIVED.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
- “Existing is going through the motions of life with no zeal and feeling you have no control; living means embracing all that this large world has to offer and not being afraid to take chances. The beauty of living is knowing you can always start over and there's always a chance for something better.”
― J'son M. Lee
- “It’s a brand new day. Live in the now it will be gone before you know it”
― Rodger Halston
- "You can explore the universe looking for somebody who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and you will not find that person anywhere."
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“Of course there is no formula for success except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.” ~Arthur Rubinstein
- “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
- “The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.”
― Robert F. Kennedy
- “It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
- “Life is not about negative circumstances that happen to you, it's about what you do with the golden opportunities hidden within!”
― Rhonda Byrne, Hero
- “Who am I?" "What is the purpose of my life?" These questions arise spontaneously throughout our lives, either unbidden or through conscious intent. Anyone who wishes to live an authentic life must answer these questions, regardless of whether they believe in the existence of the soul or practice a religion. If these queries remain unanswered, life will more than likely remain superficial and empty, in spite of any material abundance. If you wish to make the soul's journey, then I suggest you ask yourself these questions relentlessly and ruthlessly, and listen carefully.”
― Ilchi Lee, Human Technology: A Toolkit for Authentic Living
- “Everyday we have a high calling that we need to fulfill and everyday we can do it whether it's just to smile at somebody we little know.”
― Lacey Sturm
- “We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
- “Sometimes it feels as if God set you on Earth with a bottle full of nasty-tasting pills called days and these instructions: Swallow one at a time. When entire prescription is finished, you may return home.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
- “The purpose of life is to reach a point where you can say 'yes' to all of it.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal
- “You may or may not make a million dollars in life, a song may not be sung in praise of you, monuments may not be erected in your name but promise me this: to live life fully, to give wholeheartedly, to do your best with what you have, to impact souls, to use your gifts and talents to serve humanity, to live, love and leave a legacy in your own way.”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive, EnjoyLife 360 - Simple Secrets to a Happier Fulfilling Life!
- “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it”
― Gautama Buddha
- “What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
- “I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up!”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
- “I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all..”
― Leo Rosten
- “God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
- “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”
― Rumi
- “If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.”
― Mitsugi Saotome
- “Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.”
― Washington Irving
- “Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
- “I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
- “What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood
- “When you lost sight of your path, listen for the destination in your heart (Allen Walker, D-gray Man)”
― Katsura Hoshino
- “Once you start recognizing the truth of your story, finish the story. It happened but you're still here, you're still capable, powerful, you're not your circumstance. It happened and you made it through. You're still fully equipped with every single tool you need to fulfill your purpose.”
― Steve Maraboli
- “Stop allowing your day-to-day life to be clouded by busy nothingness.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
- “We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.”
― Gloria Gaither
- “Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
- “With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
- “A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that’s poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)”
― Victoria Moran, Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty
- “Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose”
― Leonardo da Vinci
- “Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs — not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can "be", that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.”
― Rollo May, Man's Search for Himself
- “You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.”
― Woodrow Wilson
- “You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
- “And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
- “The only purpose of our lives consists in waking each other up and being there for each other.”
― Johanna Paungger, Moon Time: The Art of Harmony with Nature and Lunar Cycles
- “In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.”
― Dean Koontz
- “Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities.”
― Criss Jami
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“Following all the rules leaves a completed checklist. Following your heart achieves a completed you.”
― Ray Davis
- “Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be.”
― Steve Maraboli
- “The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
- “Life is short only if you are not living your purpose.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
- “Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose, achievement, and peace….”
― James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
- “The question of how to spend my life, of what my life is for, is a question posed only to me, and I can no more delegate the responsibility for answering it than I can delegate the task of dying.”
― Anthony T. Kronman, Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life
- “...But we also believe that part of our mission in life is to find our bliss and follow it. Life is a precious and delicate gift. How much of that gift do we squander out of fear?”
― Dianne Sylvan, The Body Sacred
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“You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.”
― Deborah Day, BE HAPPY NOW!
- “The key is for you to discover what you love to do, what you were created to do, and then do it for the people around you with love. That is the abundant life, dear girl, no matter where in the world you live.”
― Robin Jones Gunn, Finally and Forever
- “Your purpose is your why.”
― Deborah Day
- “Our sole purpose on this earth is to add value to others. It doesn’t make sense to just exist in people's lives or to be a drain on them, does it?”
― Rob Liano
- “When your drive is moving your purpose, focus must hold the wheels else your might miss the way. And do you know what that means? Avoid Crash!!!. Stay focused!”
― Israelmore Ayivor
- “Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.”
― Brennan Manning, Souvenirs of Solitude: Finding Rest in Abba's Embrace
- “It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.”
― Winston Churchill
- “A true leader is a person whose influence inspires people to do what is expected of them to do. You cease to be a leader when you manipulate with your egos instead of convincing by your inspirations.”
― Israelmore Ayivor
- “Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion.”
― Mollie Marti
- “Our culture encourages us to plan every moment and fill our schedules with one activity and obligation after the next, with no time to just be. But the human body and mind require downtime to rejuvenate. I have found my greatest moments of joy and peace just sitting in silence, and then I take that joy and peace with me out into the world.”
― Holly Mosier
- “You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.”
― Abraham Lincoln
- “The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
― Robert Bryne
- “Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
- “A lost person or article is still what it is, still valuable in itself, but in the wrong place, disconnected from its purpose and unable to be or do whatever it is intended to be or do.”
― David Winter, What's in a Word
- “Every person is a living treasure box. Listening holds the key.”
― Mollie Marti
- Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
–Carl Jung
- "Some of life’s best lessons are learned at the worst times."
---Ani Difranco
- Knowledge can help you discover the world, but only wisdom can help you discover yourself
- "There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be." ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
- True beauty lies in purity of the heart. ― Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- “The loneliest place on Earth? Living with a man you no longer love.” ~ Sally Brampton
- “Reward and punishment is the lowest form of education.” ~ Chuang Tzu
“Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.”
― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
(Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, NIV)”
― Anonymous, Study Bible: NIV
“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will”
― John Green, Paper Towns
“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”
― Johnny Depp
“Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.”
― Leo Buscaglia
“I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own.
It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.”
― David Levithan, Every Day
“Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.”
― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
“Even on my weakest days
I get a little bit stronger”
― Sara Evans
“The Simple Path
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service
The Fruit of Service is Peace”
― Mother Teresa
“Work without love is slavery.”
― Mother Teresa
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
― Mother Teresa
“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.”
― Coco Chanel
“I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen
“I think we are and will always
be lonely people in a lonely
world under lonely stars.
We can never starve our loneliness.
We can only hope that by the
company of others,
it doesn't devour us.”
― Testy McTesterson
“Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, Maerad: to love is never wrong. It may be disastrous; it may never be possible; it may be the deepest agony. But it is never wrong.”
― Alison Croggon, The Riddle
“Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.”
― Mother Teresa
“There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.”
― Jean Anouilh
“alone with everybody
the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
and the women break
vases against the walls
and them men drink too
much
and nobody finds the
one
but they keep
looking
crawling in and out
of beds.
flesh covers
the bone and the
flesh searches
for more than
flesh.
there's no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.
nobody ever finds
the one.
the city dumps fill
the junkyards fill
the madhouses fill
the hospitals fill
the graveyards fill
nothing else
fills.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell
“Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
“Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon
“Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain...Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering. That's the hard thing.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever
“Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
“If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have.”
― John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and something else too, as if he were standing with her, as if he'd taken her within himself, letting her rest her entire body for a moment on his backbone, her mind in his mind, her heart in the fire of his.
The fire of Brigan's heart was astounding. Fire understood, and almost could not believe, that the feeling he was sending her was love.”
― Kristin Cashore, Fire
“God is love," she said. "And he respects love, whether it's between a parents, and child, a man and woman, or friends. I don't think he cares about religion one little bit. Live your life right. Love with all your heart. Don't hurt others, and help those in need. That is all you need to know. And don't worry about heaven. If it exists, you'll be welcome.”
― Ellen Hopkins
“So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.”
― Wm. Paul Young, The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity
“If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you.”
― Pope Benedict XVI
“There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realization that you can't be all you wanted to be, you just might have to settle for a little bit less.”
― Cecelia Ahern
“If our testimonies are strong onthis point and if we feel the absolute assurance that God loves us, we will change our questons. We won't ask, 'Why did this happen?' or 'Why doesn't God care about me?' Instead, our questions will become, 'What can I learn from this experience?' or 'How does the Lord want me to handle this?”
― John Bytheway, When Times Are Tough: 5 Scriptures That Will Help You Get Through Almost Anything
“Love is making friends with fear because fear is the constant companion of intimacy ~ and when you bring fear out of the darkness and into the light, you realize it was an illusion based on our own insecurities.”
― Allen L. Roland
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last.”
― Jonathan Larson, Rent - Rehearsal Tracks CD: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical
“Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all the things that you want to buy and meet all the people that you want to meet and learn all the things that you desire to learn and if you do all these things but are not madly in love: you have still not begun to live.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“There is no religion without love,
and people may talk as much as
they like about their religion, but
if it does not teach them to be good
and kind to man and beast,
it is all a sham.”
― Anna Sewell
“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”
― E.M. Forster
“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
“If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - complete edition
“We never know when our last day on earth will be. So, love with full sincerity, believe with true faith, and hope with all of your might. Better to have lived in truth and discovered life, than to have lived half heartedly and died long before you ever ceased breathing. ”
― Cristina Marrero
“In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. Dr. Sterling was right about that. I loved it because I thought it was all I had. I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
“When someone cries so hard that it hurts their throat, it is out of frustration or knowing that no matter what you can do or attempt to do can change the situation. When you feel like you need to cry, when you want to just get it out, relieve some of the pressure from the inside - that is true pain. Because no matter how hard you try or how bad you want to, you can't. That pain just stays in place. Then, if you are lucky, one small tear may escape from those eyes that water constantly. That one tear, that tiny, salty, droplet of moisture is a means of escape. Although it's just a small tear, it is the heaviest thing in the world. And it doesn't do a damn thing to fix anything.”
― Chase Brooks, Hello, My Love 2: First Love Deserves a Second Chance
“I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin' to forget.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“It is when things are at worst you will get the best.”
― Santosh Kalwar, You Can
“It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades: A Novel of Germany Between the Wars
“To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.”
― Diana Gabaldon
“Born to be wild; born to be free; nobody owns you; you are, a romantic tree.”
― Santosh Kalwar
“The Night World isn't a place. It's all around us. The creatures of Night World are beautiful and deadly and irresitable to humans. Your best friend could be one-so could your crush.”
― L.J. Smith
“Scars are but evidence of life," Coquette said. "Evidence of choices to be learned from...evidence of wounds...wounds inflicted of mistakes...wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We likewise choose to see them, that we may not make the same mistakes again.”
― Marcia Lynn McClure, The Whispered Kiss
“A woman could be as beautiful as she felt herself to be.”
― Laura Lee Guhrke, Guilty Pleasures
“And I do. I do wonder, I think about it all the time. What it would be like to kill myself. Because I never really know, I still can't tell the difference, I'm never quite certain whether or not I'm actually alive. I sit here every single day. Run, I said to myself. Run until your lungs collapse, until the wind whips and snaps at your tattered clothes, until you're a blur that blends into the background.
Run, Juliette, run faster, run until your bones break and your shins split and your muscles atrophy and your heart dies because it was always too big for your chest and it beat too fast for too long and you run.
Run run run until you can't hear their feet behind you. Run until they drop their fists and their shouts dissolve in the air. Run with your eyes open and your mouth shut and dam the river rushing up behind your eyes. Run, Juliette.
Run until you drop dead. Make sure your heart stops before they ever reach you. Before they ever touch you.
Run, I said.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
“If death is your lover, you don't got to be afraid ever that he will ever leave you”
― Francesca Lia Block, Echo
“I'm not the same person I was before, and I am deathly afraid I will never be her again...”
― Jodi LaPalm, Still Life
“there are three kinds of people in the world: those who don't know and don't know they don't know; those who don't know and do know they don't know; and those who know and know how much they still don't know.”
― Karen Marie Moning
“You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel."
(Something Borrowed)”
― Emily Giffin
“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility
“It's easy to look at people and make quick judgements about them, their present and their pasts, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. what a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceburg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron
“See, don't just look. Your partner is so much more than their appearance. It's how kind their heart is, how lovely they smile, how much they care and have compassion, how generous and giving they are which becomes much more attractive.”
― Suzan Battah, Five Senses of Romance A Self Help Guide for Gentlemen and Ladies, Both Single and Taken
“There’s a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, "Let me take care of you forever," and I have never heard it spoken before. Over the last few years, I’d given up looking for that person, learned how to say this heartening sentence to myself, especially in times of fear. But to hear it from someone else now, from someone who is speaking sincerely...”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
“People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.”
― Josh Lanyon, The Dark Tide
“You can’t live your life thinking death is going to come all the time. You have to live life and if it comes, then we can only hope we were able to do all the things we wanted. He has to want to do something. Everyone does.”
― Shelena Shorts
“Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind.”
― Katherine Owen, Seeing Julia
“Embrace relational uncertainty. It's called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It's called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It's called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It's called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It's called revelation.”
― Mark Batterson, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars
“This isn't your world. It's your parents. Your world is still out there, waiting to be discovered. Always remember that.”
― Carroll Bryant, Last Flight Out
“Long ago she'd clamped an iron shell around her heart and nothing and no one could pry it lose, but deep inside the tender flesh still beat.”
― Sarah Sundin, A Memory Between Us
“For [erotically intelligent couples], love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. They know that they have years in which to deepen their connection, to experiment, to regress, and even to fail. They see their relationship as something alive and ongoing, not a fait accompli. It’s a story that they are writing together, one with many chapters, and neither partner knows how it will end. There’s always a place they haven’t gone yet, always something about the other still to be discovered.”
― Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic + the Domestic
“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love
“Maybe none of us can choose who we love, Cas. None of the lucky ones, anyway. The only choice we have is how we serve that love. And Ethan’s made his choice. What about you? Are you going to reject it, or make the best of what you’ve been given?”
―
Vicki Keire,
Darkness in the Blood
“Never to be squandered.....the miracle of another human being.”
―
Craig Lucas,
Prelude to a Kiss
“When you die, you just die. No ghost, no reincarnation, no heaven. People want to believe that their souls live on or whatever, but that's only because they can't handle the idea of the world going on without them.”
― Leila Sales, Past Perfect
“When you see the deceitful truth from your dearest, it will turn your stomach and destroy your heart.”
― Olivia H.Y. Ngai
“Being amongst rough lives and confusion does not make you less, it only makes your beauty shine out more clearly.”
― Sharon Sant, The Jackie Chan Fan Club
“Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right
“I see life as a waste. You grow up. Get a job. Have a family. Retire. Then die. But there's one thing worth living for and that's love and it always will be. It will be happiness with someone you can't live without. Someone to have silly arguments with and laugh about. Someone you can grow old with. Someone to recognize your scars and understand them. That's how I see life”
― Heather Sally
“Dream big and never give up on those dreams. Who knows where they'll take you?”
― Amy McGuire
“We are only victims if we allow ourselves to be.”
― McCartney Green, Dandelions Never Die
“Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils.”
― Rick Barnett
“Love isn't something you take from one to give to another. Love is to be shared among all; the more people we have in our family, the more love there will be to share.”
― P.A. Minyard, The Beloved
“If hate motivates your life, you'll never know the meaning of true love”
― Gaiven Clairmont
“The workings of the male mind are twisted indeed." Winnifred Crane”
― Kate Noble, Follow My Lead
“You have to appreciate where you have come from to know who you are in the present and whom you would like to be in the future.”
―
Truth Devour,
Unrequited
“If you can't focus then how do you expect to make your dreams come true?”
― The Prolific Penman
“She wasn't a cowardIf she were she would have retreated back into her shell years before and pulled back entirely from life. She was a fighter. Life knocked her down, and she coped by getting up and moving on.”
― Dee Henderson, Danger in the Shadows
“Katie shook her head in dismay. “I thought being poor was the worst thing that could happen to a girl.”
“No, Katie,” the countess said in a clear voice. “The worst thing is to be in love with one man and have to marry another.”
Katie O'Reilly to the Countess of Marbury in "Titanic Rhapsody”
― Jina Bacarr
“What was beauty after all? To me it was mere reflection of your emotional state of mind. Someday when somebody hurts you too bad, you’d drink directly from the bottle, stop having a bath, live in the same pajamas for a week with kajal smeared eyes after excessive crying, a running nose and a pale white face. You are alone. You are UGLY! Someone enters your life- inspires you, makes you feel special, makes you think, makes you learn, keeps company, never lets you drink alone, talks excessive crazy stuff, romances your spirits, keeps you high without a smoke, embraces you into them when you’re low, supports you, guides you, critiques you, consolidates you! You are BEAUTIFUL!” ― Akhila Sudhakar, The Expressionist
“Moon and earth is the longest known stable love affair known to man kind” ― Danny Maximus
“There is not a more powerful weapon upon this earth capable of inflicting more damage, pain and suffering than a betrayal of the heart.” ― Mark Boyer
“But sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less.” ― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines
“Without love, life is nothing but work and sleep.” ― Amanda Usen, Seducing the Playboy
“That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.” ― Nicholas Sparks-The Notebook
“Even though we all know something,There is a lot more to it.” ― Jerril Thomas Abraham
“Profanity is the expression of a lesser mind.” ― Shane K.P. O'Neill
“Every woman is different in her own special way.” ― Habeeb Akande
“People come in and out of our lives, and each of them helps form who we are and who we are to become.” ― Cassandra King
“For a moment, I felt like myself again. Not the new me, not the old me, just the real me.” ― Leslea Tash, Bird After Bird
“If I have learned anything over this last year it’s that you have to live your own life too so that if something we hoped for doesn’t work out, you still have two legs to stand on, you still have your own path.”
―
T.S. Krupa,
Safe & Sound: A Novel
