Life Serendipity Quotes

The ancient Vedic texts known as the Upanishads declare, "You are what your deepest desire is. As is your desire, so is your intention. As is your intention, so is your will. As is your will, so is your deed. As is your deed, so is your destiny." Our destiny ultimately comes from the deepest level of desire and also from the deepest level of intention. The two are intimately linked to each other. ~ Deepak Chopra

It may take a lifetime for an individual to live, but it takes just under four seconds for the occupants of the Seville to live a collective life. ~ Bradley Somer

Headaches you could generally shift with a couple of well-aimed Nurofen and some strong coffee. Heartaches were considerably more tricky to handle. ~ Carole Matthews

Be careful what you look for and expect in life, because you will either find it or create it. ~ Christopher Babson

Only in youth does coincidence seem the same as fate. Later, we know that the real course of our lives is decided within us; our paths may seem to diverge from our wishes in a confused and pointless way, but in the end the way always leads us to our invisible destination. ~ Stefan Zweig

We will not die cornered and cowering in the ruins of a dead city. ~ Rachel L. Schade

Growing up was one of the hardest things I ever had to do. I never wanted to grow up; I just wanted to be a kid my whole life and never see all the evils this world has to offer. ~ Julian Aguilar

Every individual has a role to play for the betterment of our nation. ~ Sunday Adelaja

I comfortably and easily release the old and and welcome the new in my life. I am safe. ~ Louise Hay

To an INTJ, life is a giant experiment where the goal is to continually improve everything around them - projects, tools, relationships, theories, organizations. They seek to be competent in everything they do, and their ceaseless need for improvement means that good enough never is. ~ Anna Moss

On the morning of the best day of her life, Maude Flynn was locked in the outhouse singing 'the Battle Hymn of the Republic ~ Laura Amy Schlitz

Wise are those who have seen life from both sides of the fence. ~ A.J. Garces

Writing is draining. Every word is like lifting a stone and levering it into place. Your head aches, your muscles ache and every word you conjure up is heavier than the last one. ~ Chloe Thurlow

I always wanted children, but not until they were actually part of my life did I realize that I could love that fiercely, or get that angry. ~ Cokie Roberts

I have respected women from the beginning of my life. ~ Julio Iglesias

Whatever life may send your way - make the best of it. Don't waste your time and energy worrying about it. Instead, find a way to do something about it. Learn from it, adjust to it, be strong, be flexible and be your best in every situation. ~ Les Brown

When difficulties seem insurmountable, optimists react in a more constructive and creative way. They accept the facts with realism, know how to rapidly identify the positive in adversity, draw lessons from it, and come up with an alternative solution or turn to a new project. Pessimists would rather turn away from the problem or adopt escapist strategies - sleep, isolation, drug or alcohol abuse - that diminish their focus on the problem.9 Instead of confronting them with resolve, they prefer to brood over their misfortunes, nurture illusions, dream up "magic" solutions, and accuse the whole world of being against them. They have a hard time drawing lessons from the past, which often leads to the repetition of their problems. They are more fatalistic ("I told you it wouldn't work. It's always the same, no matter what I do") and are quick to see themselves as "mere pawns in the game of life. ~ Matthieu Ricard

Being able to tolerate negative feelings can be crucial to a wide variety of life situations: delaying gratification, learning from bad experiences, truly hearing what other people have to say, and assessing our own circumstances. ~ Julie K. Norem

People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past what they didn't want to see. ~ Donna Tartt

Affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits and waits. Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it still ripening in the shade0 ~ Charles Dickens

Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his life in terms of 'the possible,' and that this capacity is one aspect of his experiencing himself as a being having a world. ~ Rollo May

Ascribing meaning to life is a piece of cake compared to actually living it."
-from "Hear the Wind Sing ~ Haruki Murakami

There was a pause. Finally, dubiously, Jack said, "I'm sorry, but it sounded like you just confessed to being able to talk to bones. Why have we never heard this before?"
"Because I was there when you said you could raise the dead. I saw how everybody reacted, and I enjoy having a social life at this school," said Christopher. ~ Seanan McGuire

We're all just a part of this large, spiraling, constantly fluid hierarchy and changing. At some points in your life, you feel crushed by that, depending on who you come in contact with. ~ Victoria Chang

Life isn't static, and sometimes, we don't realize the value of knowledge or even of people, until farther down the track, when we're mature enough to truly understand. ~ Nalini Singh

Don't think there are no second chances.
Life always offers you a SECOND CHANCE ...
It's called TOMORROW ~ Nicholas Sparks

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal. ~ Steven Millhauser

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that. ~ Imogen Cunningham

Life is to short to be little. ~ David J

The Gospels were not thought of as works of literature. People were not concerned with the literary reputation of Matthew or Mark, but with the substance of their records of our Lord's life. They did not have to respect their actual words, as they would if they were transcribing the works of Thucydides or Plato. ~ Frederic G. Kenyon

Strong Points: I could definitely spend the rest of my life with him.
Shortcomings: He killed his last boyfriend (acquitted: involuntary manslaughter).
Comments: The knockout blonde he kept having lunch with wasn't his lover - she was his attorney. Serves me right for spying on him. ~ Steve Kluger

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

If all I do in my life is soothe someone's spirit with a song , then let me do that and I'm happy. ~ Gladys Knight

The real essence of your distinctive footprints may least be felt in your presence and much more in your absence ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

To say that I fell into this love suggests a series of coincidences or just pure luck that takes away from the responsibility of my choice. For if our days are long or our nights bleak, when life springs unpleasant surprises along our way, I will remember that loving you was my choice. I will remember that love is much more than intense feelings. For feelings can be fickle and change so swiftly just in the course of one day. Know this then, my love. Know that this choice to forever link my life with yours was mine alone to make. With eyes wide open and clear, in the presence of God, our families, and our friends, I choose to spend the rest of my life with you and with you alone. ~ Yejide Kilanko

I only box. It's the only thing that keeps me sane. I can't just go to the gym and run. I'd rather die. I played volleyball and rode horses my entire life, so just, like, moving to a city and having to go the gym was just, like, so weird for me. ~ Gigi Hadid

The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. Such a life is, from the spiritual point of view the lowest type of human existence. The highest type of human existence is free from all wants; and it is characterised by sufficiency or contentment. ~ Meher Baba

My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well. ~ Carrie Fisher

Life isn't a cabaret. It's a dive bar. ~ Woody Paige

The accusation against the Church for being either right or left wing tells you more about the contemporary political assumptions than about the political inclination of Catholicism. The Church will seem both "right wing" (in promoting the traditional family, opposing abortion, euthanasia, embryonic research, etc.) and "left wing" (in advocating the rights of minorities, social justice, active state support for the poorest, etc.), depending on the political bias of the one accusing .The same bias afflicts Catholics. There are pro-life Catholics who think Catholic social teaching is "socialist," and pro-social-justice Catholics who think pro-life causes are right wing.

The Church will always be accused of "interfering" or trying to "impose" its view when the critic disagrees with its stance; but the same critic will say nothing when the Church has intervened politically on a matter with which he or she agrees. And if the Church has stayed silent, the critic will accuse it of "failing to speak out." Put another way, people are against the Church "interfering" in what they would much rather have left alone; and in favor of "interfering" in what they believe should be changed.

Why and when does the Church speak out on political questions? The answer is rarely and cautiously, and almost always because it is a matter which touches on the Gospel, on core freedoms and rights (such as the right to life, or to religious freedom), or on core principles of Catholic ~ Austen Ivereigh

To run the worldly life, Egoism is not required. To bind [karma] for the next life, Egoism is required. If one doesn't want the bondage for the next life, then also it is possible to conduct the worldly life without egoism. Entire worldly life is in the 'discharge' form. So it will continue to 'discharge' by itself. ~ Dada Bhagwan

Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope? ~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

What reader or dreamer doesn't imagine the romantic life of a writer, who lingers between the desk and the fridge in the morning and in the evening attends cocktail parties thrown by nouveaux riches and the society ladies who hardly ever have the time to read? ~ Rawi Hage

And there it is. The threat I have lived with my entire life. If I am not good enough, kind enough, thoughtful enough, obedient enough, I will be cast from my home like a stunted fish from a fisherman's net. ~ Robin LaFevers

You have to be brave in life.
You have to be fearless in life.
You have to be courageous in life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Former pleasures meant nothing to me anymore. Life was a series of tasks to be endured, and even the simplest ones were painfully arduous. It took everything I could muster to cook a meal, wash the dishes, or do the laundry. My income was virtually nonexistent. My occupation was therapy. ~ Rachel Reiland

Of course our prayers are limited by our sin. If you want powerful prayers, get the sin out of your life. ~ John Eldredge

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. ~ Rumi