Quotes About Life

“Your body is not your masterpiece, it’s your paintbrush to transfer your insides onto the canvas of your life – where others can see it and be inspired and comforted by it.” – Glennon Melton (paraphrased)

“A grudge is a wound that you cling to, hoping to be rewarded for it.” – Shaun Roundy

“Toxic masculinity is not manly, it’s apeish. Don’t just toughen up, dare to soften up and love everyone.” – Shaun Roundy

“God is more interested in changing you than changing things for you so you don’t have to change.” – Shaun Roundy

“The best way to change your future is to change the version of the past you carry with you.” – Shaun Roundy

“Most of what we give meaning to is based on what we compare it to.” – Peter Sage

“If you are complaining about something that has already happened, then you’re wasting your time.” – Peter Sage

“Life is not a comfort-centric experience, but a growth-centric experience.” – Peter Sage

“The strongest force in the human personality is the need to remain consistent with how you define yourself.” – Tony Robbins

“Humility is our most misunderstood and underappreciated virtue. It’s the opposite of what most people think and twenty times better. It doesn’t mean being less than anyone else, but transcending the concept of competition.” – Shaun Roundy

“If you’d rather be loved than envied, then rather than struggling to be cool and attractive, strive to be alive and interested.” – Shaun Roundy

“It takes energy and effort to pay attention to someone. If you can’t do that, you’re not in a conversation. You’re just two people shooting out barely related sentences in the same place.” – Celeste Headlee

“What then is time? If no one asks me, then I know. If I wish to explain it to someone who asks, I know it not.” – St Augustine

“Don’t Cling to a Mistake Just Because You Spent a lot of Time Making it.” – Aubrey De Graf

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” – Annie Dillard

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.” – Rumi

“We define reality by the portrait of our past, which is doomed to become our future unless we alter it in the present.” – Shaun Roundy

“Beneath every behavior is a feeling. And beneath every feeling is a need. And when we meet that need rather than focus on the behavior, we begin to deal with the cause, not the symptom.” – Ashleigh Warner

“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.” – William Shakespeare

“Don’t only bloom where you are planted, plant yourself where you bloom.” – Shaun Roundy