Quotes About Life

“Perfectionism as a term is a misnomer. It isn’t about being perfect. It’s about never being good enough.” – Ellen Hendriksen

“The best thing about good friends is that they let you experience your best self.” – Shaun Roundy

“If you want life to change, then you have to change. If you want life to get better, then you have to get better. What does it take to be happy? Progress. Progress equals happiness. Even if you’re not where you want to be yet, if you are on the road, if you’re improving, if you are making progress, you’re going to love it. You’re going to feel alive.” -Anthony Robbins

Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable.
I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours.
Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.
If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.
Mary Oliver

“If a person’s behavior doesn’t make sense to you, it is because you are missing a part of their context.” – Devon Price

“There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.” – John Adams

“Success breeds success, and success is an excellent motivator. Not only does success motivate, but it can also inspire, and here is where we move from sheer determination to passion – the true goal of education.” – Laura Hanby Hudgens

“Our kids have to learn to be self-motivated because at some point in every person’s life, either at school or in a job or in a marriage, he or she will have to buck up and say, “This is hard. This is boring. I don’t want to do this. But I’m doing it anyway. And I’ll do my best.” – Laura Hanby Hudgens

“People are naturally kind, generous, good, and have infinite potential. Expect this of them and you support them in rising toward their best selves. People are also SO selfish, afraid, jealous, insecure, judgmental, and closed minded. If you don’t expect this of them, you’re setting yourself up for disappointment and frustration.” – Shaun Roundy

“It is so simple… The one thing is — love thy neighbor as thyself — that is the one thing. That is all, nothing else is needed. You will instantly find how to live.” – Dostoyevsky

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi

“Crave the result so intensely that the work is irrelevant.” – Tim Grover

“You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.” – John C. Maxwell

“Racism is cured by traveling.” – Miguel de Unamuno

“Much of our behavior is for social consumption: we make decisions that make us look good, rather than good decisions.” – Hugo Mercier

“We get angry and irritated and indignant and offended because it seems more convenient if the fault belongs to someone else. In reality, it’s far more convenient when the fault is ours, because then we can do something about it.” – Shaun Roundy

“Abundance says, ‘There is always everything.'” – Shaun Roundy

“Cherish your doubts, for doubt is the attendant of truth. Doubt is the key to the door of knowledge; it is the servant of discovery. A belief which may not be questioned binds us to error, for there is incompleteness and imperfection in every belief. Doubt is the touchstone of truth; it is an acid which eats away the false. Let no one fear for the truth, that doubt may consume it; for doubt is a testing of belief. The truth stands boldly and unafraid; it is not shaken by the testing; For truth, if it be truth, arises from each testing stronger, more secure. Those that would silence doubt are filled with fear; their houses are built on shifting sands. But those who fear not doubt, and know its use; are founded on rock. They shall walk in the light of growing knowledge; the work of their hands shall endure. Therefore let us not fear doubt, but let us rejoice in its help: It is to the wise as a staff to the blind; doubt is the attendant of truth.” – Robert T. Weston

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.” – Bertrand Russell

“The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.” – Leo Stein