Life Management Quotes

The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life. ~ Antonio Damasio

You can't solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology. ~ Bill Joy

Effective life management isn't about finding more time to fill; it's about recognizing you don't have to do anything you do not choose to do. Hiding a choice behind a "have to" is irresponsible. Everything filling the white space in your life is there because you chose to put it there. We always have the power to say, "No." We just need to be ready to live with the consequences. ~ Joe Jordan

I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks. ~ Ronnie Wood

Life management begins with mind management. The quality of your life is influenced by the quality of your thoughts. Your thoughts do form your world. Scarce thoughts create a life of scarcity. Thoughts of abundance lead to abundant circumstances. ~ Robin Sharma

Time management is about life management. ~ Idowu Koyenikan

Forward thinkers create a plan, focus on the plan, and execute the plan. Procrastinators just talk about the plan, get distracted with the minor things and postpone the plan. - We don't need time management, we need life management with purpose. ~ Farshad Asl

The Gospel isn't a life management program. It shouldn't merely be the crutch we fall on when life gets ugly. It should be the legs we walk on, the air we breathe. ~ Mary E. DeMuth

When we think we can manage our time, our circumstances, and our relationships without His help and inspiration, we know what unmanageability is. ~ Toni Sorenson

Not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives. ~ Warren Buffett

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people. ~ Damian Lewis

Woman can change better'n man," Ma said soothingly. "Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head. ~ John Steinbeck

To be a winner in actual you need to be a winner from thoughts first. ~ Deepak Burfiwala

Yes, but" is actually a "no" with a tie. ~ Bogdan Vaida

Maybe just being open to things being connected made us see more. Now I shudder whenever I find that sort of connectedness creeping into my life. ~ Mark Vonnegut

You have to be an Actor to face life not the camera. ~ Tapan Ghosh

When I find that I am more conscious, it's because I'm in tune with a higher reality. When I'm less conscious, it's because I've cut off that entunement to some extent. Maybe through drinking, through anger, through whatever. And I realized then that God has to be an infinite consciousness, and that I had to be an expression of that consciousness. And that the goal of life then must be to become more and more in tune with that consciousness. And I decided to give my life to God. And around that time, to make a long story short, I found Autobiography of a Yogi. ~ Goswami Kriyananda

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless. ~ Anne Stevenson

God wants us to choose to love him freely, even when that choice involves pain, because we are committed to him, not to our own good feelings and rewards. He wants us to cleave to him, as Job did, even when we have every reason to deny him hotly. That, I believe, is the central message of Job. Satan had taunted God with the accusation that humans are not truly free. Was Job being faithful simply because God had allowed him a prosperous life? Job's fiery trials proved the answer beyond doubt. Job clung to God's justice when he was the best example in history of God's apparent injustice. He did not seek the Giver because of his gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver. ~ Philip Yancey

Life's too short. We have to love each other. ~ Drew Barrymore

Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not. ~ Dan Millman

Start with a brand new good-morning. To your husband or your wife. To your kids. To those you work with - and don't work with. What's the harm? How difficult is it? And it isn't, and you know it. So do it. ~ Carew Papritz

Now, the typical way to measure your potential is to compare the size of the problem to your natural gifts and your track record so far. No, it's not irrational to measure your potential this way, but for the believer in Christ Jesus, it simply isn't enough. By grace, God doesn't leave you on your own. He doesn't leave you with the tool box of your own strength, righteousness, and wisdom. No, he invades you with his presence, power, wisdom, and grace. Paul captures this reality with these life-altering words: "It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me" (Gal. 2:20). ~ Paul David Tripp

There were definitely times I couldn't shower for a full week because I could barely stand, it felt like having all your life sucked out of you. ~ Avril Lavigne

...for Taggart, learning the reality of abortion for the first time was shocking. "Even if it's done right, it's barbaric," he told us. "I'm no holy roller, but if you see the way they actually have to do it, it's barbaric." The learning experience was one shared by Wechsler, Pescatore, Wood, and the rest of the team. ~ Ann McElhinney

High-class people have this concept called space, which means you cannot ask them questions or give them opinions about certain aspects of their life. ~ Chetan Bhagat

So do you have a cure in your medicine bag?' Ben tried to lighten the moment.
'No. But I do have something my grandmother told me once. When things are the most confused in our lives, that's when the Lord can work best.'
'I don't like confusion. I like things laid out in straight rows with everybody knowing which rows belong to them.'
'But life is rarely that way. We make squiggles and turns and sometimes things work out and sometimes they don't. But either way the Lord has a plan and a purpose.'
'If that's true, he hasn't let me in on what it is. That plan and purpose.'
She smiled. 'He will. When it's time. That's another thing she said. His time is not our time. ~ Ann H. Gabhart

Man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change. ~ Scott Ginsberg

How wonderful it must be, to be unable to remember things that once caused us distress. Yet we should embrace all our memories, whether joyful or painful. They're all we ever really own in this life. ~ Isabel Wolff

Despair

Who is he?
A railroad track toward hell?
Breaking like a stick of furniture?
The hope that suddenly overflows the cesspool?
The love that goes down the drain like spit?
The love that said forever, forever
and then runs you over like a truck?
Are you a prayer that floats into a radio advertisement?
Despair,
I don't like you very well.
You don't suit my clothes or my cigarettes.
Why do you locate here
as large as a tank,
aiming at one half of a lifetime?
Couldn't you just go float into a tree
instead of locating here at my roots,
forcing me out of the life I've led
when it's been my belly so long?

All right!
I'll take you along on the trip
where for so many years
my arms have been speechless ~ Anne Sexton

The unexpected hope of freedom is enticing yet terrifying. His life here is awful but tolerable. What would his life be out there, in a world that will see him as a monster? He could live alone, a recluse at the edge of civilization, bothering no one, and no one bothering him. Is that the life he wants?

These are questions he can't answer - all he knows is freedom is desirable above all things. ~ Neal Shusterman

An archer, the moment he thinks he's experienced, is lost; every lion we encounter in our brief life is different from every other lion; woe to us if we stop to make comparisons, to deduce our movements from norms and premises. ~ Italo Calvino

Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth? ~ Jandy Nelson

You want to be a poet and you're not. By the time you realize you're not doomed, your life is going to be over and you'll never have taken any risks. ~ Tarryn Fisher

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple things last; they are repeated over and over by each generation. ~ Philip Reeve

It is possible to be happy and successful by living on one's own terms. ~ Fennel Hudson

A dog can be a 'significant other' as it infuses a magic fluid stream of oxytocin, trust, ease, and patience; and transforms a man's life into a paradise of complicity and mutual sympathy, arousing at the same time an instinct of playfulness that many people have lost since their young age and that puts things in new perspectives.( "I am young and have no dog") ~ Erik Pevernagie

It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed. ~ Christopher Earle

The thorns of life had wounded him deeply. So he held fast to his art even when the gate through which it entered was shut. ~ Catherine Stella Schmidt

It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night. ~ Nicolas Chamfort