University of Life Quotes Catalog - Page 7 of 40 - a curated list of all the best quotes about life and how to live it!

“Fear tricks us into living a boring life.” – Donald Miller

“The way kids learn to make good decisions is by making decisions, not by following directions.” – Alfie Kohn

“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” – Diane Ackerman

“We are all living in cages with the door wide open.” – George Lucas

“The only thing ‘wrong’ with you is fear.” – Shaun Roundy

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.” – Henri Nouwen

You say that you love the rain, but open your umbrella when it falls. You say that you love the sun, but find a shady spot when it shines. You say that you love the wind, but close your windows against it. This is why I am afraid when you say you love me. – Qyazzirah Syeikh Ariffin

“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on somebody else’s path.” – Joseph Campbell

“The answer to the problem of humanity is the integrity of the individual.” – Jordan Peterson

“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.” – Thomas A. Edison

“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Life has no remote. Get up and change it yourself.” – Mark Cooper

“Happiness is like ice cream – it comes in many flavors for you to choose from. Enjoy a colorful taste of pleasure or novelty today, some purpose and challenge and growth tomorrow.” – Shaun Roundy

“If you want to change the world, you must change the way people think. That’s what drives all actions and outcomes. If you want to change the way people think, it’s much easier to present a new idea than change an old one. So get creative! Think more deeply. Re-examine everything others have taken for granted all their lives.” – Shaun Roundy

“Confidence is not, ‘they will like me.’ Confidence is, ‘I’ll be fine if they don’t.'” -Christina Grimmie

“The life in front of you is far more important than the life behind you.” – Joel Osteen

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead

“Everything! Now! Boldness and clarity open the door to mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical intensity and stimulation, which generate the sensation of feeling fully alive.” – Shaun Roundy

“The darker the night, the brighter the stars.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

“When Newton’s Apple fell toward the earth, the earth, ever so slightly, fell toward the apple as well.” – Ellen Bass

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.” – T.S. Eliot

“Belonging is the absence of the fear that you don’t.” – Shaun Roundy

“Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.” – Brené Brown

“Self-awareness is your only permanent get-out-of-hell-free card.” – Shaun Roundy

“If you’re pretty, you’re pretty; but the only way to be beautiful is to be loving. Otherwise, it’s just ‘congratulations about your face.’” – John Mayer

“Which is more important,” asked Big Panda, “the journey or the destination?” “The company,” said Tiny Dragon – James Norbury

“I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.” – Walt Whitman

Happiness = Reality / Expectations

“Stop waiting for the perfect moment…it’s already here.” – Shaun Roundy

“If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.” – Billy Joel

“You don’t have an identity without a memory.” – Michael Pollan

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Our expectations are the filters for how we make judgements about anything.” – Michael Yapko

“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” – F. Matthias Alexander

“A child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.” – African proverb

“How you do anything is how you do everything.” – Martha Beck

“Ignorance is bliss until all of a sudden…it isn’t.” – Shaun Roundy

“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!” – Jacob Marley (Charles Dickens)