“Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.”— Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, books.google.comTagged: Anxiety, Life, actions
“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”— Henry Miller, goodreads.comTagged: Life, Experience, Interest, Happiness
“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”— Dale Carnegie, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Life
“You’ll notice that I haven’t talked about love. Or about happiness. I’ve talked about becoming - or remaining – the person who can be happy, a lot of the time, without thinking that being happy is what it’s all about. It’s not. It’s about becoming the largest, the most inclusive, most responsive per…”— Susan Sontag, graduationwisdom.comTagged: Happiness, Contentment, Openness, Life
“If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.comTagged: Decisions, Making Decisions, Choices, Life, The Universe
“Life isn't happening to you; life is responding to you.”— Rhonda Byrne, amazon.comTagged: Positive Thinking, Life, The Secret, Positive Thoughts
“I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.comTagged: Life, Change, Losing, Gaining, Pain
“Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.”— Carrie Bradshaw, lovesujeiry.comTagged: Sex And The City, Life
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens…”— Louise Erdrich, amazon.comTagged: Life, Heartbreak, strength, Courage
“I thought it would all fall into place. I’ve changed my mind. Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions.”— Mhairi McFarlane, amazon.comTagged: Life, Challenge, Change, Decisions, Self-Direction
“I’m working on my own life story. I don’t mean I’m putting it together; no, I’m taking it apart. It’s mostly a question of editing. If you’d wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Life, Story, Confusion, Uncertainty, Change
“The journey of life is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness.”— M. Scott Peck, amazon.comTagged: Life, Confusion, Uncertainty
“Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink. It's your job to avoid the obstacles. If you let them stop you or distract you, you're not doing your job, and failing to do your job will cause regrets that paralyze you more than a bad back.”— Andre Agassi, amazon.comTagged: Distractions, Obstacles, Life
“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”— Chuck Palahniuk, goodreads.comTagged: Boredom, Life, Excitment
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Amb…”— Gilda Radner, amazon.comTagged: Uncertainty, Ambiguity, Life
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”— Edward Abbey, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: Life, Challenge, Change, Uncertainty, Growth
“I know people who have been stuck in doubt their entire lifetime. Each of these unfortunate individuals – some of them my very own friends and family – came at some point to a crossroads. They came to this crossroads and found themselves rooted there, with one foot firmly planted on each side of the…”— Stephen Cope, amazon.comTagged: Decision-Making, Crossroads, Decisiveness, Life, Direction
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”— J.M. Barrie, amazon.comTagged: Peter Pan, Life
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.comTagged: Change, Life, Creating Change, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“It’s hard to recognize that life isn’t a holding action, but a process. It’s hard to learn that we don’t leave the best parts of ourselves behind, back in the dugout or the office. We own what we learned back there. The experiences and the growth are grafted onto our lives. And when we exit, we can…”— Ellen Goodman, seattletimes.comTagged: Leaving, Retiring, Moving On, Moving Forward, Life
“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”— Kiran Desai, amazon.comTagged: Change, Life, inspiration, Advice
“On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you. Evolution is win-win. Life is self-correcting.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.comTagged: Life, Choices, Win-Win, Growth, Personal Growth
“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”— Betty Smith, amazon.comTagged: Perspective, Inspirational, Life, Happiness, travel
“The silence between the notes makes the music. And lest we forget, the longer the silence, the more incredibly beautiful and powerful the music when it finally swells and the symphony goes on.”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Life, Change
“Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.comTagged: Life, Damage, Pain, Healing
“Things usually work out in the end. What if they don’t? That just means you haven’t come to the end yet.”— Jeannette Walls, amazon.comTagged: Life, Perspective, Adversity, Ending, Life Comes Together
“The most insightful thing I ever heard, was overheard. I was waiting for a rail replacement bus in Hackney Wick. These two old women weren’t even talking to me - not because I’d offended them, I hadn’t, I’d been angelic at that bus stop, except for the eavesdropping. Rail replacement buses take an e…”— Russell Brand, amazon.comTagged: Hope, Life
“Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens.”— Carrie Bradshaw, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Sex And The City, Life
“You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.”— Garrison Keillor, amazon.comTagged: Age, Answers, Philosophy, Life, maturity
“The Universe is very, very big. It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules. Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever. Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it mea…”— Craig Ferguson, amazon.comTagged: Life, Forever, Love