Quotes in category: “Life”:

We don't always get to choose the truths God reveals to us--But we do get to choose what we do with that truth--Whom we share it with and how. 

She's not like that now. She knows better . She knows now that people lie , and promises can be broken as quick as they are made . She understands that she might never be loved , and too quickly good things fly in front of your eyes before you can reach out and grab them . She knows that you can't change or help time, so every now and then it will just run out. There isn't a place for everyone in the world, so if you're standing alone for awhile, that's why. Not everything in life comes easy , but when you work the hardest, that's when it's the best . You can't always expect people to care, and even when your best friends stab you in the front, don't think for one minute that they didn't already aim for your back. They missed for a reason. She has found out to soon, that in the end, you are your own best friend . Everyone will be broken at some point in their life and more often than not , its gonna hurt like hell . But you can't stop it. You can't change your fate. Some things are meant to be and all the pain you go through will end up resulting in something huge . You don't know what it is and when it happens, it will hit you like a ton of bricks. At some point, when you have experienced everything you can, the words 'Life' and 'Risk' won't mean anything to you anymore. But don't try and change that. Stuff like that is meant to happen. Overtime, certain things no longer have an affect on you . And that happens because that's the way it supposed to be . But you'll learn all that later in life when little things like a sunrise or a spring rain start to matter. But it might catch you off guard and happen sooner .

It's hard to think about growing up when you're right in the middle of doing it. It's hard to know what you want. Sometimes there are so many voices in your head it's difficult to know which of them is yours.

We walk through our lives one day after the next but every once in a while we stumble completely unknowingly into people that will forever alter our lives. and until we find our way to these people, life has not yet begun.

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

If you're feeling frightened about what comes next, don't be. Embrace the uncertainty. Allow it to lead you places. Be brave as it challenges you to exercise both your heart and your mind as you create your own path towards happiness, don't waste time with regret. Spin wildly into your next action. Enjoy the present, each moment, as it comes; because you'll never get another one quite like it. And if you should ever look up and find yourself lost, simply take a breath and start over. Retrace your steps and go back to the purest place in your heart... where your hope lives. You'll find your way again.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

You take a snapshot of your life the last time you leave someplace, and, I don't know, it's dumb, but you think it's never gonna change.

Nobody wants to admit this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's because it's all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on. You know, like that game where you whisper a sentence into someones' ear, and that person whispers it to someone else, and it all comes out wrong in the end. But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like 

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?

We're conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware-- beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

You change for two reasons. Either, you learn enough that you want to or you've been hurt enough to have to.

Why can't you be in a good mood? How hard is it to decide to be in a good mood and be in a good mood once in a while? 

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

Well it's very simple... do whatever it takes. You can't fail if you don't give up.

I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends would respect me. The others, they can do whatever the hell they please. 

Until a person takes responsibility for where he is, there is no basis for moving on. The bad news is that the past was in your hands, but the good news is that the future, my friend, is also in your hands. 

Be Brave. Even if you're not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.

We lose friends, we gain friends and along the road we find ourselves.