Quotes & Sayings About Life Lessons Inspirational

My chest tightens: seeing him so upset breaks my own heart. 'Don't you ever wish you could make that bit go away?" I say, feeling angry at the past. 'That you could erase those painful memories, forget they every happened, just remember the happy times you had together?'
'You must never say that,' he reprimands sternly.
'But why not?' I look at him in surprise.
'Because it's the bad memories that makes you appreciate the good ones. Don't ever wish them away. it's like your nan always used to say, "You need both the sun and the rain to make a rainbow". — Alexandra Potter

Everything is only a transition — Lailah Gifty Akita

Your mama coming back. Just cause you cant sees a person aint mean nothing. They still there. You worry you never gonna find your mama but she gonna come to you. Close your eyes. I bets you see her good. — Nancy Rawles

Preparation position you for prosperity. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

We the humans are too tiny to know something so grand as an Eternal Driving Force behind the Universe. Ultimately what would really matter in the development of our species as a whole is, we the humans serving humanity. — Abhijit Naskar

Forging fake smiles to hide painful truths doesn't take away the hurt, but sometimes safeguards our emotions from those adamant not to understand. — Aisha Mirza

Forgiving someone doesn't mean pretending nothing happened. Rather, it means releasing the burden of anger and obsession so you can move on with your life. — Charles F. Glassman

Pleasure and Pain participate equally in moulding character. — Abhijit Naskar

Time, energy, and focus; these are the resources at your disposal each and every day. — Noel DeJesus

Life is never simple or without challenges. If it is, it will not last long. So stop worrying that because your life is complicated you're doing something wrong. Enjoy the lessons in life, and the chaos they bring. It means you're alive! — Shane E. Bryan

Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

I squeeze my eyes shut as though that will somehow make it go away, but I know it won't. It happened and there's no changing it. No changing any of the things that happen to us. All there is to do is move on. Starting now. — Nyrae Dawn

The best lessons of life are learnt in silence and solitude. — Abhijit Naskar

Recognize the issue, admit there is an issue and then do something about the issue. — Latorria Freeman

If I can't trust my child with what is happening in our home how do I think he or she will ever experience trust? — K.L. Jordaan

Like children, we have dreamt, that what gratifies our desires, or contributes to our convenience to-day, will prove equally useful and satisfactory to-morrow, without reflecting on the growth of the body, the change of humours, the new objects, and the new situations, which every succeeding hour brings in its train. — Mary Hays

I'd always heard people say and I'm sure you heard it too, "Change takes time." But, my parents taught me the more important lesson, very silently but with even greater clarity, "Change takes time. But, it also takes people." People who are willing to put in their everything. Change doesn't happen by itself. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Some people believe that to find happiness, you should live each day of your life as if it's your last because that way you will appreciate every single moment you have. Other people believe that you should live each day as if it's your first because then every day can be the beginning of a new journey. — Ellen DeGeneres

It is about simple awareness - awareness of what is so real and
essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, that we have to keep
reminding ourselves, over and over: This is water, this is water. — David Foster Wallace

We need no language to laugh — Janaki Sooriyarachchi

Decide.

Take one of the most unsettling things you feel exist in your life and decide.

Decide to meet it with love and understanding.
Decide to meet it with a proactive spirit that believes that a solution, an ease, a peaceful resolve rests in the meeting.

Prepare your heart for what it feels like to be joyous over the result. Give life to this solution with your breath.

Let any fear be a helpmate, let it actually support and lift you to an awareness that your next opportunity for growth is revisiting you through this present unsettling because you are now more than capable and authentically ready to meet it.

Learn and value the lesson and transcend its repetitive nature. — David Ault

The greatest life is to live your greatest dream. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Decision and choices define life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

God will fulfil His promise. Wait patiently for God to act. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am forever grateful for not knowing - What would have been. WHAT WILL BE holds none of those bittersweet pangs and it is lit w joy. — Erica Goros

Seasons change, people grow together and apart, life moves on. You will be OK, embrace it. — Alexandra Elle

Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk. — Andre Dubus III

Make peace with your fears; after all, they are only imaginary friends. — Samer Chidiac

If anything viewed as negative has happened on your journey thus far, turn the page, create a new chapter, and write your own positive story. Then, bless humanity with the wisdom you have gained by traveling through the experience. — Molly Friedenfeld

the source of a river is narrow. If you could jump over it in a twinkle of an eye at the source, be sure to ponder before you jump over it at its mid or its estuary. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Without challenge we become too comfortable with life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is not about what happened yesterday nor what will happen tomorrow,it's about this particular moment! — Runa Magnus

Some doors we close in life are like fire escape doors. When we exit they close and we can't reopen the door from the other side. The purpose is to protect us from going back. — Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos

Sometimes we have to get out of our own way. — Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Do not worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life can least be found in comfort and much more in uncomfortable situations of life. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Water is sacred to all Human Beings. If you do not have water, you cannot have life. I always remember to honor and pour the water because it is traditional. — Autumn Morning Star

It isn't always easy to live the life you were meant to, but the lessons learned and the rewards are immeasurable. — Amilya Antonetti

You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire. — Margaret Atwood

The more you learn the biology behind your every action, emotion and behavior, the better you become at accepting others the way they are. — Abhijit Naskar

It may take many voices for people to hear the same message. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Master, go on, and I will follow thee
To the last gasp with truth and loyalty. — William Shakespeare

Don't let yourself get yourself down — Sunny Basra

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you will be dead. — Santosh Kalwar

We as humans are the patterns of life. We are the roads we travel. Our lives make up the insignificance of a moment of the importance of a second. The choices we make are everything. I realize that, now that everything has changed and I'm a different person. — Megan Duke

Motivation always sparks a fire within us. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What I Wish, this I do not practice, but what I hate is what I do. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Life was not meant to be live alone. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship — Mitch Albom

If you want your dream to come true, you must do a lot of work. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You were taught that love is supposed to be patient and kind, and not something that challenges you and changes you and makes you who you are. — Brianna Wiest

Sometimes you have to know what you're willing to sacrifice to be the person you are meant to be. — Erik Tomblin

Rejoice while you can breathe. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We all have rough times in our lives tears, anger, and more. We have the tools to prepare for them times before they come like studying, memorizing the word, keep God in our lives and believing God's promises. — Amanda Penland

You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Think first. Think twice. Think again. Respect others. Respect yourself. Respect dreams. — Kevin James Breaux

If you want money, you must work to earn it. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You can't be spontaneous within reason. — Brittany DeLaBarrera

Don't care about success or failure. Keep doing what you love. Success will follow. — Udai Yadla

At times, look back towards your ancient days, drink deep from the eternal fountain of wisdom long gone, and then look ahead. — Abhijit Naskar

I believe you can only be lucky if you start out being
very good — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

Life is full of uncertainties. Ye must grasp the moment. — Various

Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are. — Turcois Ominek

Fear will do one thing and one thing only: hold you back — Kya Aliana

So walk, or run if you can to your dreams. It doesn't matter if it's far or near. You can pause along the way but never stop, OK? Then hug it when you finally meet it! Embrace the moment. Love it and never let it go. Hold its opportunities and kiss its lessons with full of sincerity. Remember every moment of it - specially - the journey. It is what matters most. — Diana Rose Morcilla

Often we suffer because we don't realize what's essential.
We may want to be rich, but the rich are lonely.
We see all those people on TV that have won the lottery and want to be at their place, but studies show that they are even more miserable after having won the big check. They don't really know what to do with all that money, take poor decisions on how to spend them, change themselves and their friends don't see them in the same way. — Lidiya K.

Opinion is often compromised in the face of fear. — Gavin Mills

Even crocodile has honest tears..sometimes — Mohammed Sekouty

If there is reluctantly obstruction in our life then don't be amused life is itself immense lesson therefore learn from lesson — Avinash Advani

If experience is the best teacher, there's nothing that comes close to the experience of life. — Michael A. Singer

We don't really need great amounts of anything. We just need a little of something great. — Aisha Mirza

I wanna leave this world better than I found it. I have the ability to draw people to my comedy shows so I wanna use that blessing not to make money but to make a difference. — Carlos Wallace

Without living, there will be no learning. Without learning, there will be no growth. Without growth, there will be no change. The only way you learn is by trying. You may make mistakes but you have to remember that doing so will lead to change. Be willing to learn from experiences, grow and live to become better not bitter. — Kemi Sogunle

Excess of happiness and excess of sorrow, both are hazardous. Emotions require a balanced diet too. — Chandan Sharma

Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is what? — Iimani David

God is the name given by theologians to something they know nothing about. There is no God; the whole existence is made of the stuff called love. — Osho

No matter what, we have to keep moving forward, even if we have to crawl. — Kellie Elmore

I want people to understand, that you are responsible for your life. Weather you are transexual, weather you are a divorcee, weather you are terminally ill, weather you are posessed by the devil or trying to get the devil out of you. You have control over your life, and it is only when you recognize that, and is willing to be responsible for your life that you can truely soar, and I believe that it's possible in our lifetime to fly if you want to. — Oprah Winfrey

Life is a balanced equation,Don't try to disorder the balance — Mohammed Sekouty

And isn't that the tragedy of love, it's utter and complete deceit, that you can only be true in it, that you only wish to reveal your full truth to the one you love, with no frills and no lies, that you want to be loved as you are? That you wish to be loved for your truth, and not your ability to hide it? — Omair Ahmad

It's the presence of others who are smarter, kinder, wiser, and different from you that enables you to evolve. Those are the people to surround yourself with at all times. — Adam Braun

The service of humanity, is the service of God. — Abhijit Naskar

Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When u dont value the tears shed in your absence , you dont deserve the smile which begets the fragrance in life . — Sucher Chaturvedi

Who needs toothpaste when you have cigarettes? — Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff

Our most important duty in life is to love. Our most important success in life is happiness. — Debasish Mridha

Life isn't filled with perfect harmony. The world is littered with bum notes, off-key moments and tuneless episodes. The trick is to find your own music, to ignore the discord and sing your own tune. — Annie Lyons

Practice makes permentant, never perfection, but perfection is a goal to strive for. — Jordan Mak

Life teaches lessons only to the ones willing to learn — Karan Singh Surana

God is the originator of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Take one minute every day and think hard about your life. You will always change for the best. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I am the bridge that connects these two ever- separated banks of human understanding. — Abhijit Naskar

Stay HIGH on AWESOMENESS so reality cannot destroy you! — Tanya Masse

Strength doesn't necessarily come from resisting fear, weakness, or any other feeling and overcoming it. Strength comes from looking at those things straight on
and accepting them as they really are. — Kat Von D.

Life can end any time, any day. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Mediocrity is Death. — Suleman Abdullah

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it — Billy Joel

I beg to differ on Charles Bukowski, who says nothing can save you, except writing. Sometimes, absolutely nothing will save you, not the nights you end up wasting waiting for something grand to happen, not the mornings where coffee has no taste and you wake up knowing the day will not be a blast, not the plans and schemes you write down on your imaginary flipchart to make the world go round. You end up stuck, alone and in the disparate points of chaos that drag you down, you have to come up with something to save yourself. Then you make six impossible wishes before breakfast, start walking and working and learn to seize what you call paranormal activity when it comes true. — Ioana-Cristina Casapu

Life is a creation, not a discovery — Neale Donald Walsch

He walked out without his money.
The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. Never compromise on that. — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh