Quotes in category: “Life”:

I think hope is not simply looking around and saying that everything’s great – that’s just ridiculous. For hope to have substance, it has to acknowledge the pain. But hope is saying that’s not the final story. It’s not saying pain doesn’t exist, but it’s saying there’s not a period at the end of that sentence. It’s still being written.

There’s a lot of stress and strife in this world. The people you surround yourself with intentionally, that you care about and share things with, shouldn’t be part of that stress. 

There’s no quick fix for grief. No shortcuts, no easy answer, no way to erase it. Only time can do that, and even then, just barely.

Realize you can be happy this moment for no rason. Otherwise, you eternally depend on conditions for happiness. Unconscious of this moment, you remain a victim of circumstances. 

Great things never come from comfort zones.

Close your eyes and imagine the best version of you possible. That’s who you really are, let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it.

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable.

As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself. 

Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.

Eighty percent of success is showing up. 

Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. 

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things. 

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

If it’s meant for you, you won’t have to beg for it. You will never have to sacrifice your dignity for your destiny.

Close some doors. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless. 

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

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 re-directed to something better. 

You can be happy wrapped up in things that are bad for you. And things that are good for you can make you absolutely miserable.

This life will hit you, hard, in the face,wait for you to get back up, just so we can kick you in the stomach, but getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air. 

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go