Quotes & Sayings About Advice For Daily Living

Read everything and be kind. — Penn Jillette

Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today. — James Dean

When things go really wrong just imagine how interesting it will be as a chapter in your autobiography. — Gary Edward Gedall

Strive to be different. — Tianna Holley

I realized that I don't want to try to change you in order to be with you. That's not fair to you. And I deserve to share my life with someone who's on the same path as me, and right now, that's not you. But I need you to know that you have been such a strength and a comfort to me when I had nothing and," I started to cry, "I love you so much. You truly are my best friend. I don't want to have to imagine my world without you in it. But if following my truth creates that, then know that I will always love you no matter what you choose to do with your life. — The Hippie

If you have few days to live your life, what will be your passion for last days? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. — Walt Whitman

What is your vision of ideal world? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer. — Charles M. Schulz

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history. — Jacob M. Appel

Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: Just say no. — Kurt Vonnegut

The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it. — Thomas S. Monson

If you feel that you can solve others problems, then please, work little more on your own problems and solve them first. — Honeya

Some folks say that you can't get rid of a problem until you shuck it. So, brother, let's start shucking. — Richard Puz

You will learn to be wise, or you will destroy yourselves as effectively as the Dragumon wished.
Jewel — Charity Bradford

Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out
from behind the clouds!
Shine — Gautama Buddha

If you plan of helping you don't need of saying it, act on it. — Ann Marie Aguilar

Before you speak, listen.
Before you write, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you invest, investigate.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.
Before you retire, save.
Before you die, give. — William Arthur Ward

Everything in moderation, including moderation. — Oscar Wilde

Better be cheaper, than being fake — Sir Gusta

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging. — Warren Buffett

A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world
and the responsibilities of your life.
Scatter your flowers over the graves, and walk away.
Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.
In the glare of your mind, be modest.
And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling. — Mary Oliver

Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone don't be someone else just be yourself. — Selena Gomez

Principles don't change, people do. — Carlos Wallace

When a wise woman speaks, her words are gracious. Ask God to help you find words that speak life to those around you. — Stormie O'martian

Since that day, I've never been the center of attention. You're the center of mine. And that's a very different feeling. — Caroline McHugh

There's three things I've seen in this world that seem to make a body happy or miserable. It's no money or health or any of those other things most people talk about. It's knowing where you fit in this world, being able to go after your dreams, and love. — Patricia McLinn

You don't always have to follow the rules. You have to stand for what you believe. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful. — Gordon B. Hinckley

A lie has forgiveness. A deceive doesn't. The difference is in lying to protect and deceiving to harm. — Eulalia Marques

don't do things that kill you. — John Bytheway

Don't be in a hurry to achieve your dreams. Take a day to play with your kids and relax - your dreams will still be there tomorrow. — Lindsey Rietzsch

Be independent of the good opinion of other people. — Abraham H. Maslow

Don't count the days, make the days count. — Muhammad Ali

When you think positively, you attract divine forces for a positive lifestyle. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You must not fight but learn to deal with an enemy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Watch it,' her mom snapped. 'Don't start a fight just because it's the easiest thing to do. — John Corey Whaley

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Amendment to live by-
J.O.Y.
Jesus first,
Others second,
Yourself last. — Michelle Duggar

Sit in a room and read
and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time. — Joseph Campbell

Truth is one, though
the sages
know it as many .
God is one, though
different
religions
approach
Him differently
Call Him Shiva, Vishnu, Allah, Jesus
or any other form of God that you believe
in .
Our paths may be different.
Our destination
is the same. — Amish Tripathi

There are two types of sages: sages who tell us what we should do and sages who tell us what we shouldn't do. — Eraldo Banovac

Love unconditionally, laugh intentionally, live strategically, and learn daily. — Hope D. Blackwell

Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint! — Jane Austen

I'm going to give you some advice: don't be such a whiny asshole. It makes you look weak. — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

It's cold. You should come inside. — Sarah Dessen

Sacred heart begets happiness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Never tell your problems to anyone ... 20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them. — Lou Holtz

Seek to be the smartest in a room, not the loudest. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Invite someone to do something fun. — Elizabeth B. Knaus

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything. — Benjamin Franklin

Big things start small ... Never look down on that thing you think is nothing ... always remember that ... ! — Akinwumi Jarule

Adventure responds to your call. — Garfield Whyte

Don't look into car headlights and freeze, because you'll either get run over or shot! — Bill Watterson

Rejection makes you sad and cry, cry it out but not for long because the tears will block good things coming ahead of you — Akinwumi Jarule

You'll never find a worse critic than the one inside your own skin, or a more difficult one to silence," I told Pieras, by means of explanation. "The best you can hope for is to teach it some manners. — Lisa Shearin

Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will change that. Today you are alive and here and honored and blessed with good fortune. Look at this suset, it's beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity. Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village. — James Clavell

Live life, love life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one — Bruce Lee

*marissa tries to get her single, working mother's attention by suggesting something outrageous, to which mom replies:*

'You're a smart girl. Use your head and avoid any guy who reminds you of your father. — Camille Pagan

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. — Theodore Parker

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. — Mark Twain

Don't neglect these tools in your journey : an eye to look and see and to differentiate flowers from leaves, a mind to comprehend and be focused, ears to listen and hear, a heart to understand what is truly worth our time and what not to give attention to, and a good strength to dare unceasingly in wit and with courage, focusing on only the true factors of the matters that truly matter for distinctive footprints in the end! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today? — Mary Manin Morrissey

The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them. — Jamaica Kincaid

People need to learn the art of making an argument. Often there is no right or wrong. It's just your opinion vs someone else's opinion. How you deliver that opinion could make the difference between opening a mind, changing an opinion or shutting the door. Sometimes folk just don't know when they've "argued" enough. Learn when to shut up. — J'son M. Lee

Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to. — Dale Carnegie

Thought is uncontrollable but controllable. Thought is the pivot of life and the epitome of good or bad living. A controlled thought is a controlled life and an uncontrolled life is an uncontrolled living. Our first and last thoughts from dawn to dusk are of great essence to living a purposeful life. They form a catalyst for a progressive or retrogressive life. What do you think of most before you sleep? What do you ponder upon most upon waking up from bed? The distinctive boundaries to your purposeful day are your first and last thoughts of the day. Remember! the first and the last thoughts. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets. — Tom Robbins

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Just because you want to join the party does not mean you are required to stay until the last drunk passes out. — Sophia Dembling

Think before you speak. Read before you think. — Fran Lebowitz

Live like you were dying, Love because you are. — Mark Green

Invitations not obligations: Our expectations of other people can be a big drain on our emotions. When we ask someone to do something, or, worse, have a belief that someone should do something and insist that he or she comply, it places a great stress on us. And the other person, noting our anxiety and insistence that they conform to our expectations, may actually become less inclined to respond as we like.
Instead, consider everything you want someone else to do to be an invitation that the other person may or may not choose to accept. Of course, if you are an employer or a parent who is trying to ensure a child's safety, you must have parameters and ground rules. Everyone else, however, should be released from the obligation of doing, being, living, and acting as you feel they should. — Will Bowen

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. — Norman Vincent Peale

May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality ... First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love. — Thomas S. Monson

Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter. — Marcel Proust

No mountain is too high, but so many people can't climb even a hill. There is always a way to the top, but so many people can't even get the mid and many miss the way. Life is real and the journey of life comes with rules. Mind the real and distinctive rules that lead to success and you shall get to the very peak of the mountain of success surmounting all barriers, challenges and puzzles along the journey to success with a great degree of ease! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Success, which hides behind time's lag. — Marguerite De Angeli

Let whoever opens a door make certain there are no enemies hiding behind it. — Miriam Minger

We Are All Capable of Great Things — Angie-Marie Delsante

Do not take the world too seriously, nor let too many social conventions oppress you. — Randolph Bourne

Too many women waste their lives grieving because they do not have something other people tell them they should want. Whether you are happy or not depends to some degree upon outward circumstances, but mostly it depends how you choose to look at things yourself, whether you measure what you have or what you have not. — Anne Perry

People forget that there's two sides to every story. Of course somebody is going to tell the side of it that makes them look good and exaggerate the rest to make everyone else look bad. — David Reeves

If you can identify humor in problems then you will have less difficulties in solving them ... Most importantly, "you should be able to laugh on yourself". — Honeya

Pray for rain while digging a well. — Stephen King

Life's a marathon, not a sprint. — Phillip C. McGraw

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. — John Wooden

Deal with people from whom you can learn — Baltasar Gracian

All souls have a body. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Behind every smile there is a cunning face — R.Gayan Priyankara

Life is a constant balancing act, and keeping your balance is not always possible. The better you prepare yourself, the better your chances of regaining your balance when you lose it. — Walter C. Conner

Do not afraid of your previous mistakes, try to fix them. — Kamaran Ihsan Salih

At last the gardener arrived, mumbling something about rascals and country bumpkins, and took me out into the park, giving me a lengthy lecture as he did so. I was instructed to be sober and industrious, and not to wander about aimlessly or waste my time in unproductive activities: if I heeded this counsel, he said, I might in time achieve something. He gave me much other useful and well-phrased advice too, but I have since forgotten almost all of it. — Joseph Von Eichendorff

Don't settle for being an option; become a priority. — Matt Mitchell

Hope is immeasurable anchor. — Lailah Gifty Akita