Quotes About Life

“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

“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

“The Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert talk about the two ‘hungers.’ There is the Great Hunger and there is the Little Hunger. The Little Hunger wants food for the belly; but the Great Hunger, the greatest hunger of all, is the hunger for meaning… There is ultimately only one thing that makes human beings deeply and profoundly bitter, and that is to have thrust upon them a life without meaning. There is nothing wrong in searching for happiness. But of far more comfort to the soul is something greater than happiness or unhappiness, and that is meaning. Because meaning transfigures all. Once what you are doing has for you meaning, it is irrelevant whether you’re happy or unhappy. You are content – you are not alone in your Spirit – you belong.” – Laurens van der Post

“The best parts of life are hiding in plain sight, embrace the ordinary.” – Katherine Schafler

“You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future, but all there will ever be is what’s happening here.” – Jim Carrey

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful, than a life spent doing nothing.” – George Bernard Shaw

“He who binds to himself a joy/ Does the winged life destroy/ But he who kisses the joy as it flies/ Lives in eternity’s sun rise” – William Blake

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” — Kurt Vonnegut

“Most people give away their happiness the minute someone does something different than what they wanted them to do. Most people, when someone doesn’t do what they said they were going to do, then they’re pissed off. That’s part of life! I’m not going to sit around and suffer. Suffering is when you’re constantly measuring what people did or didn’t do, or what *you* did or didn’t do, and if you really want to take your life to the next level, you’ve got to focus on what you’re here to give instead of what you’re here to get. It’s that simple.” – Tony Robbins

“If you want to have a great relationship, the first thing you have to do is commit to a life of living in a beautiful state.” – Tony Robbins

“If you surround yourself with clowns, don’t be surprised if your life becomes a circus.” – Unknown

“Evil people often don’t realize that they’re evil. They don’t recognize what “evil” means. They justify selfish actions as reasonable, and don’t notice or care that they hurt others unnecessarily. A degree of darkness exists in every life, every mind, every heart. Our job is to love, accept, forgive, support, celebrate, delight, and shine so brilliantly that others learn to distinguish the darkness from light.” – Shaun Roundy

“Believe in the opportunities that lie ahead. I am reminded of what Abraham Lincoln said when he sat on the sidelines for a long time, losing election after election and struggling to make a professional contribution. He said simply, ‘I will prepare, and perhaps my chance will come.’ He lived long enough to learn what everyone learns—that chance always favors the prepared life.” – Howard Hunter

“Your two core fears are: 1. The fear of failure (the fear you won’t be good enough) and 2. The fear of loss (the fear your life won’t be good enough). The fear of failure is about feeling insulted, unloved, unvalued, unappreciated or unwanted. The fear of loss is a fear that you won’t have what you need, want or deserve, so you feel mistreated, cheated, robbed, short-changed or taken from at some level.”- Kim Giles

“We plan, prepare, and perform positively, then something else happens. We get to start over. That’s life. Being surprised and starting over. It isn’t what we thought it should be, or would be – so we get to think again.” – Paul Jenkins

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.”- Joseph Campbell

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” – Melody Beattie

“Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.” ― William Martin,