Quotes About Life

“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

“There are two kinds of people in this world. Regular people, and regular people.” – Shaun Roundy

“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