Quotes About Life

“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

“What didn’t you do to bury me, but you forgot that I was a seed.” – Dinos Christianopoulos

“If you want someone to eat humble pie, it’s much more likely if you add a little sugar to the recipe.” – Shaun Roundy

“Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it’s ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That’s just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it’s breathtakingly beautiful.” – L.R. Knost

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

“I don’t necessarily have to like my players and associates, but as their leader, I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.” – Vince Lombardi

“Integrity is courage over comfort, choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy.” – Brene Brown

“It’s all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.” – Rob Gilbert

“Personality is just a combination of habits, of states of thinking and acting and feeling in the world, and we can change these habits.” – Scott Kaufman.

“Your body is not your masterpiece – your life is. It is suggested to us a million times a day that our bodies are projects. They aren’t. Our lives are. Our spirituality is. Our relationships are. Our work is. Stop spending all day obsessing, cursing, perfecting your body like it’s all you’ve got to offer the world. Your body is not your art, it’s your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scatched up paintbrush is completely irrelevant. What is relevant is that you have a paintbrush which can be used to transfer your insides onto the canvas of your life – where others can see it and be inspired and comforted by it.” – Glennon Melton

“Happiness is a reaction to doing and being something else, so be grateful, be engaged, be expressive, connected, confident, curious, active, awake, inspired, alive, interested, hopeful, healthy, loving, forgiving, and take another step toward a worthwhile goal.” – Shaun Roundy

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you want to live in a better world, then make a habit of encouraging and rewarding excellence. If all you care about is adequate, then that’s what you’ll get.” – Shaun Roundy

“Fighting only destroys the enemy. Kindness destroys enmity.” – Kesari (movie)

“Your relationship with yourself becomes the template for all the other relationships you form.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

“Things feel ‘true’ due to a sense of congruence, most often by matching current subconscious beliefs and feelings, which are highly unreliable.” – Shaun Roundy

“Feelings are extremely important, for they teach us much about ourselves, the world around us, and our relationship to other human beings. For instance, positive emotions tell us something is right—we feel joyful, peaceful, content, expansive, loving. Negative emotions tell us something is wrong—we feel fearful, angry, sad, hopeless. They tell us when something needs to be changed, and not necessarily something outside of ourselves, such as another person’s behavior. Even our spirituality is based to a degree on emotion: a burning in the bosom, a feeling of peace or love, the sense that something is right for reasons that have nothing to do with logic.” – Carroll Hofeling Morris