Life Wisdom Quotes

“Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about other people. Dwell on things that are interesting. Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream...and life continues...”
― Etty Hillesum

“Of the value traps, the most widespread and pernicious is value rigidity. This is an inability to revalue what one sees because of commitment to previous values. In motorcycle maintenance, you MUST rediscover what you do as you go. Rigid values makes this impossible.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“When someone stabs you in the back and then apologizes, accept the apology, but don't give him the knife back to do it again!”
― Bohdi Sanders, BUSHIDO: The Way of the Warrior

“Death can make you over if you let it."
--Loving the Dead and Gone”
― Judith Turner-Yamamoto

“Sometimes it isn’t until we get knocked down that we find which way is up. Sometimes it isn’t until the sky clouds over that we notice the light. And sometimes it isn’t until we lie in the gutter that we begin to see the stars.”
― Bear Grylls, Soul Fuel: Daily Devotions to Survive the Adventure of Life

“While mountaintops inspire us, life’s valleys mature us. The experience of the mountain can help us see life down below in a new and different way. The good times can help fuel us through the times when life is tough and we have to dig in and get dirty hands and feet.”
― Bear Grylls , Soul Fuel: Daily Devotions to Survive the Adventure of Life

“Do the right thing, at the right time, and in the right way.”
― Bohdi Sanders, The Art of Inner Peace: The Law of Attraction for Inner Peace

“There is a phase in which we believe in others,

What they have got to say, an opinion of them on us, for us or of other things in the world.

And there is you who would believe everything been said and opinionated.

And then one day you realize that all these things which you were made to believe are not actually the reality, or a part of it is distorted or the wholesome is.

Then you begin to think and come out of that belief and believing.

You set your paths right and clear, you believe what you experience and what is to be believed with certainty.

You come out of your shell and explore the sun above your head.

You start believing yourself, your intuitions, and yourself!”
― Aiyaz Uddin, Science Behind A Perfect Life

“You create your own happiness by creating your own moments and cherishing them to the core. In life, we rarely project ourselves and reflect which is where we miss ourselves. There is no other moment than now to hold tight to yourself otherwise time keeps on moving and you lose yourself to the world. Life isn’t a destination but a journey you decide for yourself through a deeper visualization and planning. Time is an ultimate currency that should be traded wisely with the deserving and no matter what and no matter how much you try to control things, meeting people’s expectations somewhere somehow you will be written wrong. Life is a precious gift from god! Celebrate yourself!”
― Aiyaz Uddin, Science Behind A Perfect Life

“To be successful in your life you don't need to have all the ideas in the world but only one idea that clicks and you are done for your life”
― Aiyaz Uddin, Science Behind A Perfect Life

“We are the time we must live up to otherwise like the sun we will set one day without shining.”
― Aiyaz Uddin, Science Behind A Perfect Life

“When you have an empty wallet,
When you have an empty stomach,
When you become hopeless and helpless,
That's where you will know what life is all about, and that's where you know who all are with you or pretended they are with you. Your real test in life is when you are at the edge of life.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“I wanted to please everyone-an impossibility. The noise of everyone else's expectations and concerns drowned out whispers of my own inclinations.”
― Rachel Rueckert, East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage

“We not only learn from the knowledge we acquire and experiences we gain but sometimes in order to learn deeper lessons in life we put ourselves out there and learn from the wounds and damages we receive ourselves.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“Cruel? Do you mean to the hunchback?”
“I mean—Of course the man himself was quite indifferent; no doubt, it is to him just a way of getting a living, like the circus-rider’s way or the columbine’s. But the thing makes one feel unhappy. It is humiliating; it is the degradation of a human being.”
“He probably is not any more degraded than he was to start with. Most of us are degraded in one way or another.”
― E L Voynich

“Everything was malleable. The mind could build a city, remodel it, then raze it, all while you were taking a shower or shaving or having a piss. Once you began, however, that changed. Every scene you wrote, every word you wrote, limited your options a little more. Eventually you were like a cow trotting down a narrow chute with no exit, trotting toward the—”
― Stephen King, Rat

“The way a flower blooms from inside out, It doesn't have to put any effort to attract the bees, birds, and moths, It just bloomed and everything else was taken care of.
Similarly, you don't need to attract or chase things, you just need to bloom from within and everything else will transcendently fall into place for you.”
― Ritu Negi

“He didn’t believe in God, but he believed even less in cheapness. Besides, life’s never been anything else except a brief, frightened, bewildered shopping expedition.”
― Romain Gary, The Gasp

“Mission parameters can always be changed—in politics, military missions, or life—and the truly wise know when to make those changes.”
― Mike Chen, Brotherhood

“We won’t always be free to travel wherever we will. We won’t always be able to take the time to attend elaborate parties. We won’t always have the chance to dance with the ones we love… So dance now.”
― Claudia Gray, Leia: Princess of Alderaan

“Self-doubt will cripple you more surely than fear ever could.”
― Claudia Gray, Lost Stars

“If there’s one thing this war has taught me… love while you can.”
― Charles Soule, Star Wars, Vol. 2: Operation Starlight

“Seekers will seek us.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Nothing’s ever as bad as you think it’s going to be.”
― Jason Fox, Battle Scars

“He who cannot rest, cannot work; He who cannot let go, cannot hold on; He who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.”
― Pamela Cox

“Success is misattributed to the moments we wish to remember rather than those we choose to forget.”
― Scott Belsky

“A smart man learns from his own mistakes. A wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”
― Unknown Author

“Don’t search for water in the Desert — or all you’ll ever find is Morgana.”
― Atiyeh Adeli

“Always follow your heart. It might lead you into trouble, but at least you’ll enjoy the ride.”
― Debbie Johnson