Thoughts On Life Quotes

Sometimes the only way to leave is out the front door ~ Delisa J. Bracy

There are many men who deserve to die, but they live. I can't see the end, the purpose. Even wise men can't. We can put a barrier, a wall, around ourselves, but try as we might, we can't keep the world out. ~ Cate Campbell Beatty

If I only could explain
How much I miss
that precious moment
when I was free
from the shackles of chronic pain. ~ Jenni Johanna Toivonen

It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different. ~ Maya Angelou

[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp ... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages! ~ William Mathews

Hatred only tarnishes the soul that carries it. ~ D.B. Harrop

A situation in itself is not powerful; We bestow it with power by thinking overtime about it and discussing about it. ~ Sanchita Pandey

Monoculture wants you to forget that the joy of life is in the community of the village, where you can touch, taste, smell, feel and experience a motley potpourri of cultural vicissitudes. ~ Bryant McGill

We learn not in the school, but in life. ~ Seneca.

Time is cruel like life. It slows down so that you can truly experience the worst moments of it. Only if you make it through them do you get to say 'It all happened so fast. ~ J.A. Redmerski

We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts. ~ Paulo Coelho

A man is not judged by how much he made or the power he gained in his life, but by the love that he shared and the lives that he touched. ~ Jason P. Stadtlander

The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. ~ Joseph Murphy

Some questions are more complicated than their answers could be. ~ Parul Wadhwa

If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or Mahatma Gandhi, or Mother Theresa, or Malcolm X; if a human being dares to be bigger than the condition into which she or he was born-it means so can you. And so you can try to stretch, stretch, stretch yourself so you can internalize, 'Homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto. I am a human being, nothing human can be alien to me.' That's one thing I'm learning. ~ Maya Angelou

Thought is the measure of life. ~ Charles Godfrey Leland

Adversity is inevitable. Staying positive is optional. ~ Maddy Malhotra

The fact that we see something as evil may not necessarily make that thing evil. Evil cannot contest good; succeed and persist ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Reflect your thoughts and watch others mirror them back to you. ~ Stephen Richards

If you do not actually know the story, then do not pretend you can tell it. ~ B. Thomas Harwood

We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you're dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played. ~ Alan Watts

We look at the world through our own eyes, naturally. But by looking from the inside out, we see an inside-out world. This book takes the perspective of the world outside us - a world in which humans are not the measure of all things, a human race among other races ... In our estrangement from nature we have severed our sense of the community of life and lost touch with the experience of other animals ... understanding the human animal becomes easier in context, seeing our human thread woven into the living web among the strands of so many others. ~ Carl Safina

Don't let circumstances determine your fate. Choose your fate and mold circumstances to fit your fate of choice. ~ D.B. Harrop

As you release a belief that doesn't serve you, you want to lock in a new belief that is powerful. ~ Sheri Kaye Hoff

I'd rather have a rock in my pocket than a label on my shoe. ~ Ross Caligiuri

Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought! ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You see, everything going on in your life is stemming within you. The control of your life should always be in your hands. What other people think about you should not stop you from moving forward in life. ~ Hina Hashmi

On hearing of the interesting events which have happened in the course of a man's experience, many people will wish that similar things had happened in their lives too, completely forgetting that they should be envious rather of the mental aptitude which lent those events the significance they possess when he describes them ; to a man of genius they were interesting adventures; but to the dull perceptions of an ordinary individual they would have been stale, everyday occurrences.
This is, in the highest degree, the case with many of Goethe's and Byron's poems, which are obviously founded upon actual facts; where it is open to a foolish reader to envy the poet because so many delightful things happened to him, instead of envying that mighty power of fantasy which was capable of turning a fairly common experience into something so great and beautiful. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations all start with a dream. Reading is where those dreams really can come true over and over again. ~ Rebecca West

Everything should be predetermined through careful planning or thought. ~ Steven Redhead

Everything can turn around in a moment, if you just change your thoughts, and make different decisions. Listen to your heart. ~ Stacie Hammond

I've been in Philadelphia 10 years, man. I knew it was going to be a challenge, mentally. I always thought life would come to an end if I ever left Philadelphia. And I feel like a newborn. Being in Denver it's just a better situation for me. And I'm just happy that I feel like I got an opportunity where I can win basketball games here. ~ Allen Iverson

No," Joan vowed. She grabbed Bash's shirt. "I don't want this. Didn't want this to happen."
Screams resonated.
Bash continued quietly, "None of us do. That's not up to us. We have to decide what we're going to do with what we're given. Play the cards dealt to us. ~ Cate Campbell Beatty

Be the master of your mind, dwell on positive thoughts. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What appears in your life everyday is the result of what you have previously thought or felt. The speed that your thoughts and feelings appear in your life, depends on how much you believe it to be true ~ Franklin Gillette

And she realized, standing there, that in all her practical plans for marriage, she'd never thought about the simple pleasure of being loved. ~ Jude Watson

The life of action is nobler than the life of thought. ~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life? ~ Lynette Mather

We're never the same person twice. ~ Jennifer-Crystal Johnson

Your thoughts become your BELIEFS. Your beliefs become your TRUTH. Your truth becomes your STORY. Your story IS your REALITY. ~ Sarah Centrella

Far from being incompatible, politics and Christianity are, in reality, inseparable. What don't mix are Christianity and social apathy.
(p. 117) ~ Steve Chalke

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

What troubles us much, is of less importance to what troubles us much that invokes our thought, heart, spirit and body to dare to a live distinctive footprint on earth ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Then again, that's how quickly people's perceptions could change. It only took one mistake, one stupid decision. ~ Siobhan Vivian

A jellyfish, if you watch it long enough, begins to look like a heart beating. It doesn't matter what kind: the blooded Atolla with its flashing siren lights, the frilly flower hat variety, or the near-transparent moon jelly, Aurelia aurita. It's their pulse, the way they contract swiftly, than release. Like a ghost heart-- a heart you can see right through, right into some other world where everything you ever lost as gone to hide.
Jellyfish don't even have hearts, of course-- no heart, no brain, no bone, no blood. But watch them for a while. You will see them beating. ~ Ali Benjamin

Think crazily, even if others laugh at you. Act bravely, even if you are all alone. ~ Dilip Bathija

I never thought life would be this sweet, It got me cheesing from cheek to cheek. ~ Mac Miller

The truth is easy to express but hard to digest. ~ Sasa Acharya

Timing is everything, call it a plan; there is nothing in this world that can trouble you more than your own thoughts. ~ Napz Cherub Pellazo

Materialize what you want with cooperation of other people not by depriving them. ~ Hina Hashmi

In the end, those who demean others only disrespect themselves. ~ D.B. Harrop

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art. ~ Swami Vivekananda

You are the mirror image of your thoughts and actions ~ Myra Yadav

If the way of wisdom was easy, anyone would have walked in. Wisdom is not a whore she is a shy mademoiselle so only those who strives wins her heart. ~ Rajesh Nanoo

In recalling my childhood I like to picture myself as a beehive to which various simple obscure people brought the honey of their knowledge and thoughts on life, generously enriching my character with their own experience. Often this honey was dirty and bitter, but every scrap of knowledge was honey all the same. ~ Maxim Gorky

My instinct, of course, is to imagine us as one of many planets racing its evolution against its sun--merely one in the galactic Darwinian pursuit. But maybe we're not. Maybe all this talk of the inevitability of aliens is garbage and we're miraculously, beautifully alone in our biological success. What if we're winning? What if we're actually the most evolved intelligence in all this big bang chaos? What if other planets have bacteria and single-celled genotypes but nothing more?

The precedent is all the more pressing. Humans alone could be winning the race against our giant gas time bomb and running with the universal Olympic torch. What an honor. What a responsibility. What a gift we have been given to be born in an atmosphere with oxygen and carbon dioxide and millions of years and phenotypes cheering us on with recycles of energy.

The thing is, I think we can make it. I think we can shove ourselves into spaceships before things get too cold.

I only hope we don't fuck things up before that. Because millions of years is a long time and I don't want to let the universe down. ~ Marina Keegan

A thinker builds his castle of thoughts inside a garden of roses and it loses its relevance among the roses. He builds it along the shore and it's trampled by the fury of waves eventually. He builds it on a cliff high enough and it becomes impregnable but out of reach. Such is the fate of that castle ~ Ashutosh Gupta

For the briefest moment, Jack's face formed the faintest smile as he considered fear and anxiety, the latter two of which often caused people to forget what truly mattered most. ~ Jermaine Watkins

...we might be nothing more than the dreams of our ancestors, returning always to those horrors too great to resolve. ~ Liam Howley

I collect my thoughts as if they will stain me, murder me, and then resurrect me.
Markus Zusak, When Dogs Cry ~ Markus Zusak

Life has no meaning. You give meaning to everything. Your beliefs influence the meanings you give. Your judgment about situations is based on the beliefs you hold. ~ Hina Hashmi

Life-long learning is the modus of keeping your brain ... your thoughts ... your ideas ... engaged in a quest for knowledge that enriches and expands the mind with a constant thirst for wisdom. ~ Wes Adamson

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under! But compare the health of the two men, and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with a broad axe, and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal as if you struck the blow into soft pitch, and the same blow shall send the white to his grave.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. He is supported on crutches, but lacks so much support of muscle. He has a fine Geneva watch, but he fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe; the equinox he knows as little; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His note-books impair his memory; his libraries overload h ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be so busy missing people who left that you miss the people that are standing right in front of you. ~ Adedayo Olabamiji

It's what you don't say, I hear the loudest ~ S.L. Northey

We all think we understand each other,' Kin heard Silver say. 'We eat together, we trade, many of us pride ourselves on having alien friends - but all this is only possible, only possible, Kin, because we do not fully comprehend the other. You've studied Earth history. Do you think you could understand the workings of of the mind of a Japanese warrior a thousand years ago? But he is as a twin to you compared with Marco, or with myself. When we use the word "cosmopolitan" we use it too lightly - it's flippant, it means we're galactic tourists who communicate in superficialities. We don't comprehend. Different worlds, Kin. Different anvils of gravity and radiation and evolution. ~ Terry Pratchett

Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to chose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it. ~ Maya Angelou

For the philosopher, language, thought, and passion are the same. Ideas are personal to a philosopher; they express their human passion and articulate their novel ideas in language. Ideas are more than mere concepts, trifles that the philosophical mind toys with. Ideas provide both the structure and inner vitality that holds great thinkers' conceptual structure together. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Every giant tree started its life journey being a Seed. Seed your mind today with beautiful thoughts and it will grow into a tree of wisdom ~ Mohammed Mushtaq GK

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way. ~ Haruki Murakami

The sudden acquisition of power does not go to the head, but to the groin. In some, it promotes lust; in others, supplants it. Those on whom its effect is purely cerebral may indeed be counted as fortunate. ~ Amanda Craig

At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far. ~ Yann Martel

No thought lives in your head rent-free. Each thought you have will either be an investment or a cost. ~ T. Harv Eker

It takes a heart of a barren landscape, the place where silence makes its home. ~ S.L. Northey

There is a direct line that runs from our doctrine to our actions, from what is in our minds to what is in our words and ways ... The heart spills over into life. Thoughts of God, and of all else, erupt into acts. The filling of the heart with wise thoughts of God becomes the most important, the most practical, business in the world. ~ Tom Wells

No one ever understands a woman fully ~ Mosiur Rehman

A real love is not having your beloved in bed but in your dreams and thoughts. ~ M.F. Moonzajer

The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts. ~ Marianne Williamson

What if the dog fetches the stick back because it thinks you enjoy the throwing? ~ Sanhita Baruah

Love in the modern age is a complex idea. We're more connected then we've ever been, but with that comes its own set of problems. ~ Will Darbyshire

I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat. It might be necessary, to get over it, all the way through it, and go on. I would teach her to laugh a lot. Laugh a lot at the - and the silliest things and be very, very serious. I'd teach her to love life, I can bet you that. ~ Maya Angelou

All this life is let to chance, where are the buoys of its tender love ~ S.L. Northey

I've hidden memories in boxes inside my head before. Sometimes it's the only way to deal with things. ~ Alice Feeney

Your vibes define your character.
Be the one for whom people demand,
When you know you are destined for greatness,
You feel incomplete until you succeed. ~ Dipika Agarwal

Treat me as I am,
and that I shall remain.
Treat me as I wish to be,
and that I shall become. ~ Karl Schmidt

Hide the scars, let us pretend. If you burry deep enough, no one can find them. ~ S.L. Northey

What you think about the most is reflected in what you become. ~ Steven Redhead

Change your thought, change your mind.
Change your belief, change your action. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am amazed at the intensity of your dreams; you rebuke the soul of me ~ Parul Wadhwa

I'll tell you why I keep my scrapbooks. It's in case my real father shows up .I never met him, don't even know his name ... I've got this feeling he's out there searching for me. When he bursts through the door and tells me he's spent a fortune on detectives looking all over the world for me, I'm not going to sit there like a dumb cluck when he asks me what I've been doing. I'm going to yank out my eleven scrapbooks filled with my experiences and inner-most thoughts on life lived in three time zones in America. I was a Girl Scout for three months when we lived in Atlanta. I couldn't get those square knots down for anything, but I got the big concept. Be prepared. Addie always told me, It's more important to get the big concept than to be an expert in the small stuff. ~ Joan Bauer

No other task in this world is as difficult as understanding a woman and her mind. ~ Mosiur Rehman

When we are able to do something so easily, we regard such thing as simplicity; but simplicity is complexity. Withing the things which are simple lay the things which are complex and within the things which are complex, lay the things which are simple ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

One thing you have to realize from now on is that it doesn't matter if this is a dream or not. Survival depends on what you do, not what you think. ~ Rebecca McKinsey

A writer toils to combat the insufficiency plaguing his or her life. Every writer seeks to ward off the corrosive obliteration wrought by the passage of time upon memory by capturing on paper his or her present day thoughts on life. For these intrepid souls, writing not only entails a lifetime of work it also represents their very lifeblood spilled out onto sheets of virgin white paper. Writers' inkblot of words forms a pictograph for present and future generations to view; their thoughtful elucidations speak to us from the grave. Writers' words transcend time by creating indelible images that survive wars, famines, epidemics, and censorship. Thanks to great writers, every man, woman, or child can escape the confines of their own cloistered environment and converse with other people of every occupation and lifestyle whose communal heartbeats form the bloodstream of every city. Thanks to literary figures, each reader can peer into the depths of past generations whose eclectic filament forms the ever-evolving equitable eye in humankinds' collective consciousness, or colloquially what we refer to as humanity. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Problems are inevitable. Staying in control of your emotions is optional. ~ Maddy Malhotra

The devil knows if he can capture your thought life he has won a mighty victory over you. ~ Smith Wigglesworth

It is the transience of life which proves its inestimable worth. ~ D.B. Harrop

Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us. ~ Nina Guilbeau

Be the change that you want to see in others and in this universe. ~ Bhavya