My Life Quotes

The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive... and begin to act accordingly.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

To friends! Life belongs to those who love, and where love reigns is man truly king!

Life is great, football is better.

The rewards go to the risk-takers, those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer, fuller life for themselves.

Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.

Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.

Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.

A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you feel your life.

A lot of times people's main motives and plan in life is to hurt as many people as they can, but I think there's enough good people that help make the world a good place.

There's more to life then living, so hold on.

One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this.

Life is a menu. Whatever you order is what's delivered to the table.

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder.

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

The life and death of a human being is so exquisitely calibrated as to automatically produce union with Spirit.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.

There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay.

Less and less is life animated through personal discovery, intimacy with others, or self-reflection. While life has become more manageable for many people, it has become commensurately less engaged.

There's a lot more to life than how fat or thin you are.

College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.

You can't regret a whole period in your life. . . . It's part of who you are, one of your stories.

The thing about me and books is that whichever one I’m reading always reminds me of whatever’s happening in my life during that time.

Love is supposed to bring you peace and happiness. If you are not feeling this in a relationship, you are living an illusion.

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

Life is only as meaningful as you fool yourself into thinking it is.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.

Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life.

I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

As we gaze upon the wonders of creations, we look up towards the heights of a God who is merciful in His ways and magnificent in His deeds. The life of worship always points us upwards.

And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.

After all, things are what they are. A message is a message, plates are plates, men are men, and life is life.

Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.

Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.

Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story.

There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

We are reminded how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. So, all the people you haven't told you love lately, tell them, and live your days like you mean it.

A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.

If you want the best things in life you have to earn them for yourself.

If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.