You can get away from envy by enjoying the pleasures that come your way, by doing the work that you have to do, and by avoiding comparisons with those whom you imagine, perhaps quite falsely, to be more fortunate than yourself.
~Bertrand Russell
Tag: life quotes
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There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
Laurell K. Hamilton
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement – no matter how temporary.
~Craig Thompson
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Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
~Isaac Asimov
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
~James Baldwin
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
~Nicolas Chamfort
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But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.
~Haruki Murakami
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To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.
~Elizabeth Gilbert
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You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
~Chuck Palahniuk
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Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.
~Matt Haig
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“It’s true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We’re all busy people,we can’t spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.”
~William Boyd
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
~Truman Capote
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Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it’s for you don’t be proud or reckless, and when it’s against you be patient, for both days are test for you.
~Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
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Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
~Margaret Atwood
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I keep telling you the future isn’t set in stone. It’s not all decided yet. The future is just what’s down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.
~Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
~Edward Abbey
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There comes a day in every man’s life when he stops looking
forward and starts looking back.~Maxwell Hill
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Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.
~Norton Juster
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
~Cormac McCarthy
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Death’s greatest power is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people want to stop living.
~Fredrik Backman
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
~Marcus Aurelius
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It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.
~John Guare
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Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.
~Mandy Hale
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Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you’ve been ruined.
~Ocean Vuong
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Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.
~Brene Brown
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Self-care is not selfish or self-indulgent. We cannot nurture others from a dry well. We need to take care of our own needs first.
~Jennifer Loudon
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Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it.
~Michel de Montaigne
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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
~John Steinbeck
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
~Marcus Aurelius
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Your value does not decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.
-Ted Rubin
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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 that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.
~Louise Erdrich
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All you can do in life is to be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.
~Rita Mae Brown
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Choose a path. Stay with your path. Be ready to face obstacles. Even if you take a wrong turn, at least it will be your turn, your life, your mistake.
~Naomi Levy
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It’s always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you’re going.
-Anthony Burgess
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Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you’d follow them straight into hell…
~Karen Marie Moning
Three Days, Three Quotes Challenge #6 – Day 3
It’s the third and last day of the Three Days, Three Quotes Challenge from Richa. Be sure to check her wonderful blog here.
The Rules:
- Thank the person who nominated you.
- Post a quote for three consecutive days.
- Nominate three bloggers each day.
The Nominees:
So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.
-Stephen Chbosky
I sure enjoy challenges like this and once again, thanks a lot, Richa! Til the next challenge!
Happy day, homo sapiens!😊
Three Days, Three Quotes Challenge #6 – Day 1
Huge thank you to Richa for letting me be a part of this Three Days, Three Quotes Challenge once again! Do check out her blog here and have fun!
The Rules:
- Thank the person who nominated you.
- Post a quote for three consecutive days.
- Nominate three bloggers each day.
The Nominees:
One of the most amazing things that can happen is finding someone who sees everything you are and won’t let you be anything less. They see the potential of you. They see endless possibilities. And through their eyes, you start to see yourself the same way as someone who matters. As someone who can make a difference in the world. If you’re lucky enough to find this person, never let them go.
-Susan Colasanti
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No loss is felt more keenly than the loss of what might have been. No nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed.
~Rabih Alameddine
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You don’t need another human being to make your life complete, but let’s be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn’t see them as disasters in your soul but cracks to put their love into is the most calming thing in this world.
-Emery Allen
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We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.
-Thomas Moore
Three Days, Three Quotes Challenge #2 – Day 2
Day 2 of the Three Days, Three Quotes Challenge from Lucy Lu.
The Rules:
- Thank the person who nominated you.
- Post one quote for three consecutive days.
- Nominate three bloggers each day.
Today’s quote:
There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.
-Shannon L. Alder
The nominees:
Happy Friday, homo sapiens! 🙂
Three Days, Three Quotes Challenge #2 – Day 1
This has been long overdue but it’s better late than never! Thank you, Lucy Lu for your patience. 😉 But here it is!
The Rules:
- Thank the person who nominated you.
- Post one quote for three consecutive days.
- Nominate three bloggers each day.
Today’s quote which I want to share with all of you is:
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
-Epicurus
Today’s nominees:
Happy day, homo sapiens! 🙂
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Your soul has fallen to bits and pieces. Good. Rearrange them to suit yourself.
-Hermanne Hesse
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark fold of life.
-Victor Hugo
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There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.
-Judith McNaught
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In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.
-Robert Brault
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You’re allowed to miss the people who were bullets to you, but you’re not allowed to let them shoot you again.
-Reyna Biddy
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There are years that ask questions,
and years that answer.
-Zora Neale Hurston
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People will leave you, but that doesn’t mean it’s your fault.
-Unknown
