Quotes About Life

“Tragedy plus time equals comedy.” – Steve Allen

“There are two types of victims in the world. The weak collapse under internal or external pressure, and the strong attack. Both allow external circumstances to control their feelings and reactions. The mature alternative is to establish healthy boundaries, take full responsibility for ones own life, and accept the necessity of negotiating with others toward win-win outcomes.” – Shaun Roundy

“Nothing is inherently meaningful. Meaning is subjective, and you can consciously create it (and receive the satisfaction it generates) by finding value in things both great and small.” – Shaun Roundy

“All human beings, by nature, desire to understand.” – Aristotle

“If you aren’t willing to suffer, you can do nothing. You can sit and die.” – Martyna Wojciechowska

“There is a way to do it better. Find it.” – Thomas Edison

“Some wishes are lost causes, but hope in a general sense is always appropriate, because as long as we keep trying, as long as we keep breathing and putting one foot in front of the other, we can eventually succeed, at least in some degree. The more we hope, the more motivation supports our efforts, and the more progress we make, which means that hope begets hope.” – Shaun Roundy, Heal Your Emotions

“Do you want to have a humble share in perpetuating wisdom among men, in gathering up the inheritance of the ages, in formulating the rules of the mind for the present time, in discovering facts and causes, in turning men’s wandering eyes towards first causes and their hearts towards supreme ends, in reviving if necessary some dying flame, in organizing the propaganda of truth and goodness? That is the lot reserved for you. It is surely worth a little extra sacrifice; it is worth steadily pursuing with jealous passion.” – Antonin Sertillanges

“I thought we went along paths – but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.” – CS Lewis

“Hardly anything is evil, but most things are hungry. Hunger looks very like evil from the wrong end of the cutlery. Or do you think your bacon sandwich loves you back?” – Dr Who

“The future we imagine is the future we get.” – Kelly Robson

“We went through a period when we believed you could change institutions without first changing the character of the people in them. But we were wrong. Social transformation follows personal transformation.” – David Brooks

“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Virtue is being completely you. The virtue of a horse is to run fast. The virtue of a car is to drive well. The virtue of a woman is to woman well. Identify what is quintessentially you and develop the virtue of being THAT. That is what it is to be virtuous. We associate it with self control and purity–because that’s part of what makes man more than an animal. But self control isn’t the only thing that makes you virtuous. Think of a virtuouso on the violin. Their virtue is how well they play. Be good at being you.” – Eve Speer Garcia

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” – James A. Baldwin

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” – FDR

“If you are depressed and anxious, you are not a machine with malfunctioning parts. You are a human being with unmet needs. The only real way out of our epidemic of despair is for all of us, together, to begin to meet those human needs – for deep connection, to the things that really matter in life.” – Johann Hari

“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.” – L.R.Knost

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” – Voltaire