Outstanding Life Quotes

Despite her fears she found,
The secret to an outstanding life,
Is risking the fall,
For the possibility of flight. ~ Kyra Jackson

This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life. ~ Liz Murray

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead. ~ Sena Jeter Naslund

Consider whether fulfillment of the goal you have chosen will constitute success. What is success? If you possess health and wealth, but have trouble with everybody (including yourself), yours is not a successful life. Existence becomes futile if you cannot find happiness. When wealth is lost, you have lost a little; when health is lost, you have lost something of more consequence; but when peace of mind is lost, you have lost the highest treasure. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

I was left with the choice of wearing the pants either around my ankles or hitched up to my bellybutton. I decided the latter was the lesser of evils, so I went downstairs to have what would likely be the strangest meal of my life while dressed like a clown without makeup. ~ Ransom Riggs

He felt whole and clean and full of light. Of course he would mess up again. He could never be perfect. But at least now he had assurance. If the bullet hit him next time, he'd go from life on earth to life in heaven. ~ Karen Kingsbury

I've worn a suit and tie for most of my life. And I believe (for me), it makes me more confident navigating the world. ~ Tim Gunn

I never smoked a cigar in my life until I was nine ~ W.C. Fields

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The cool thing about getting older, is that you have so much to look back on. If you take the time to reflect on your life journey to where you are now, you will be amazed at how many times "fate" caused you to make great decisions that lead you to where you are now. ~ Beth Ramsay

The mechanism which we don't understand is not anything in our soul, but rather that of the life of this expression. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Life is a time when you get pleasure until somebody get your ass. and one of the ways to prolong pleasure is to not chop up time with syllables. ~ Padgett Powell

Intellectuality" silences OTHERS! "Intelligence" keeps YOU silent! ~ Vishwanath S J

It's necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests. ~ Sophia Loren

The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts. ~ Carter Heyward

I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life. ~ John Stamos

In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the best romances, love is the final, secret ingredient that turns mere mortals into heroes and heroines. ~ Sarah MacLean

When darkness comes and eats the light,
bury your fears on sorry night.
Because in the winter's darkest hours,
comes the feasting of the Vours.
You cannot see it, the life they stole.
Your body's there, but not your soul. ~ Simon Holt

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it. ~ Swedish Proverb

And, of course, there are the perfect day, perfect moment, perfect life dreams that come sometimes and make a person hit the snooze button for hours, trying to go back to sleep and make the perfect moments last. ~ Ally Carter

No idol, book, word, place or relic should ever be held sacred. Only human life is sacred. ~ Clark Thomas Carlton

Life is like a cooking pot. If you cook something good, you well get something tasty. If you cook something bad, you will get something bad. ~ Debasish Mridha

There are mainly four types of living beings: vegetables, parasites, animals and humans. Vegetables go through life without any conscience of what it means to be alive, and all they can do is react to what happens around them and unto them. Parasites take advantage of others beings to survive but cannot survive on their own. In fact, they rather kill their host than to improve themselves independently. Animals are driven by basic instincts, like sex and pleasure for food. Animals can have attachments but that is as far as they go in what concerns love. Now human, they are capable of all that, plus the ability to love on will, to change, help others change, and create any reality they want to experience. However, almost everyone I encounter, is either pretending to be a plant, a parasite or an animal, not a human. Few people know what it means to be human, and that's how the waste their own existence. This said, we wouldn't need to answer questions about life purpose when the purpose is understood in being what one was born to be. ~ Robin Sacredfire

Arrogance is born of insecurity. Pride is different. It is born of dignity, self-worth, and self-respect. We all see the world through the prism of our identity. If our self-worth is low, it affects everything we do. The point of life is to contribute to others, but without a certain self-regard, it is sometimes difficult to make breakfast. ~ Ethan Hawke

In solitude I get rid of my scaffolding ...
Solitude molds self-righteous people into gentle, caring, forgiving persons who are so deeply convinced of their own great sinfulness and so fully aware of God's even greater mercy that their life itself becomes ministry. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

I am loving.
I am caring.
I am inspiring.
I am daring.
I am always kind.
I have peace of mind.
I am worthy of trust.
I am true and just.
I am compassionate.
I am passionate.
I am a seeker.
I am a giver.
I am very simple.
I am an example. ~ Debasish Mridha

I'm not one of these guys who is dedicated to playing or performing - that's just one facet of my life. ~ Dick Dale

Work and life are not separate things and therefore cannot be balanced against each other except to create further trouble. ~ David Whyte

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life. ~ Nicolas Chamfort

Love alone is worthless. It cannot sustain a relationship ... any relationship ~ Alice Walsh

We go from most doubted to most respected with the right outlook and attitude to life. ~ Torron-Lee Dewar