31 Of The Best Quotes You Need To Hear When Life Seems Totally Out Of Control
"You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole—like the world, or the person you loved."
By Lisa Woods
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“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”
— Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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“I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.”
— Banksy
3.
“You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole—like the world, or the person you loved.”
— Stewart O’Nan, The Odds: A Love Story
4.
“It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”
— Tom Brokaw
5.
“She might be a little introverted, livelier of movement than of conversation, neither bashful nor forward, with a soul that seemed submerged, but in a radiant moistness. Opalescent on the surface but translucent in her depths…”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Enchanter
6.
“Sometimes you just got to mute people for a week and enjoy your life.”
— MR
7.
“Everything you do and whoever you are now is all because of you.”
— Unknown
8.
“In general, people are not drawn to perfection…”
— Robert Glover
9.
“While there’s life, there’s hope.”
— Cicero
10.
“May all that has been reduced to noise in you become music again.”
11.
“Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.”
— Charles M. Schulz
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“What you value defines you; what you desire controls you.”
— Unknown
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“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
14.
“Commitment is doing the thing you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you.”
— Unknown
15.
“Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.”
— Richard M Nixon (who destroyed himself)
16.
“The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything.”
— Denis Waitley
17.
“It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.”
― Epicurus
18.
“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.”
— Napolean Hill
19.
“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
— Khalil Gibran
20.
“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
— Jim Rohn
21.
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
— Lao Tzu
22.
“If you are still looking for that one person who will change your life, take a look in the mirror.”
— Roman Price
23.
“The only person you should make happy in this life, is yourself. Part of that could be by making others happy.”
— Lorenzvc
24.
“When you judge others, you do not define them; you define yourself.”
— Earl Nightingale
25.
“The secret to happiness is freedom. And the secret to freedom is courage.”
— Thucydides
26.
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
― Henry Miller
27.
“I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die…Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies, it – our life – hides from us, made invisible by our laziness which, certain of a future, delays them incessantly.”
— Marcel Proust
28.
“I see now that the circumstances of one’s birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.”
― Takeshi Shudo
29.
“I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
30.
“The best way of avenging yourself is not to become like the wrongdoer.”
— Marcus Aurelius in Meditations
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“Dream big dreams. Small dreams have no magic.”
— Dottie Boreyko