Quotes About Life

“Your sense of self tells you how to think, feel, and behave; so if you want to change the way you experience life, reconsider your options for how you see yourself.” – Shaun Roundy

“Don’t save your life, spend it! Spend it all! Spend it on the present or the future, but never the past.” – Shaun Roundy

“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.” “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” – Steve Jobs

“Contrary to popular opinion, quitting is for winners. Knowing when to quit, change direction, leave a toxic situation, demand for from life, give up on something that wasn’t working and move on…is a very important skill that people who win at life all seem to have.” – Steven Bartlett

“Most people don’t form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.” – David Brooks

“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)

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

“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

“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

“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 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

“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

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn

“Think, feel, be, do, have. That’s how life works, in that order.” – Shaun Roundy

“The way you talk to yourself about yourself both reveals and creates who you think you are, which determines your life experience.” – Shaun Roundy

“The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer. There are many men who feel a kind of twister pride in cynicism; there are many who confine themselves to criticism of the way others do what they themselves dare not even attempt. There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer. There are many men who feel a kind of twister pride in cynicism; there are many who confine themselves to criticism of the way others do what they themselves dare not even attempt.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Expectation + Action = Creation of your life experiences.” – Jennice Vilhauer

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly.” – Marcus Aurelius

“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