That Is Life. Quotes

I personally don't think about jumping because things can't possibly get worse... To the contrary, I contemplate it because I believe things probably will.

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough?

American corporate capitalism is a murder-suicide mission.

Today we have made a fetish of choice

Things that will someday work out well start out well. Things that will never work start out bad and stay that way.

Knowingly or unknowingly, our past disappointments guide us positively and or negatively in our present day journey of life, based on how we see and use the lessons from our past!

I tell you the truth, so many people failed to do what they could have done because of the bitter things that happened in the past.

Whenever you begin to conclude, "I can't win, " and "What's the use?" you've set yourself up for failure. Your pessimism becomes a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy.

It is much more enjoyable to love success than to hate failure.

Failure only happens when you lose your willpower to continue trying...If we let the obstacles get the best of us then it was our choice to fail, not fate.

As for your failures - stop calling them failures. Refer to them as "experiences". That's all they really are - just experiences.

Once a person has declared "failure", they cease to look for the alternate open door. When in reality it was just inches away and wide open.

Of course I don’t want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?

Discouragement is the cancer of great things.

Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better.

I want to go after dreams that are destined to fail without diving intervention.

Only victory should tell you that you have failed long enough.

Ambition can form an impenetrable barrier for those who fail to acknowledge what they already are.

Any defensiveness is a sign of failure. You can't move forward if you are defensive.

On hindsight every failure is the best medicine, bitter but effective

Dear George, remember no man is a failure who has friends.

The worst outcome of not trying is never getting to fail.

You haven't failed until you stop trying.

If I ever meet you againI’ll just look at your eyesI will try to smile…Smile and savor the momentBut we ‘ll live in our own worldA world devoid of anxiety and acrimony.

Without the will or desire to achieve one is like flotsam on the oceans of time.

We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.

Persistent effort is what will create the life you most desire.

The desires you aspire to need strong chains of intent.

Always ensure to keep focus on what you desire and not what others want you to focus upon.

This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth.

We all are striving for something every minute of the day, whether we realize it or not.

The more you pray, the more you are stating your desire to live your life by God’s standards.

Once you see that your skin and your gift are two sides of the same coin, you can never forget it. It preserves religion from any arrogance and denial.

The truth is that the fever of desire in youth is fleeting disease that intimacy promptly cure.

Mom always taught me not to use the word hate. As if it were profanity.

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Water creates so much beauty, life and mystery.

Water is intrinsically linked to the mystery and excitement of discovering new worlds.

As a child I would play with such imagination that the ‘real’ world was never real at all. It was full of mystery, adventure and possibility.

Having a fishing rod in your hand is merely an excuse to explore out-of-sight depths and reveal mysteries that previously only existed in dreams.

It’s the wonderment of water that makes it so appealing: thoughts of what’s beneath the surface, or out there beyond a watery horizon.

Life is nothing short of a phenomenon. In every sense life is mysterious and unfathomable.

You are a unique and beautiful expression of the mysterious gift of life and creation.

Actually, I was beginning to think that even I should be able to solve .153847 mysteries. It was the 38 part, I suspected, that would be the problem.

At anytime you can decide to live a life that says " I love myself

It's so free to know that I do not have to compensate or make excuses for being treated poorly in relationships. I can simply move forward knowing I deserve better

Gratitude is food for a weary soul.

Personal growth will cause a ripple effect as the growth in consciousness of enough people, one by one, can create general change, and lasting social improvements.

One must avoid getting stuck in the negative memories because these can block personal growth.

It takes a rare person to care the same or more about you than themselves. So, until you find that person, please look after yourself.