Life Quotes - Page 44

When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.

The best things in life are free. And it is important never to lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love...there is your treasure.

The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.

People may call what happens at midlife 'a crisis,' but it's not. It's an unraveling - a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you're 'supposed' to live. The unraveling is a time when you are challenged by the universe to let go of who you think you are supposed to be and to embrace who you are.

Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

Intolerance of your present creates your future.

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what make you go beyond the norm.

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.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.