40 Inspirational Quotes About Life by Barrie Davenport Do you ever find yourself wondering about the meaning of life? Have you had those days when youre consumed by the nihilistic feeling that your particular life has no purpose? I think we all go through times when we question our reason for being--when we wonder why we must endure suffering or unhappiness. Sometimes it feels as though our experience of life is out of our control. We simply endure, waiting for the next shoe to drop. Or we assume uninterrupted happiness is our birthright, and when something bad happens, were thrown for a loop. One of the greatest gifts Ive ever received was the realization that I alone have control over my experience of life. Good and bad things will continue to happen, but it is my choice how I wish to respond and the attitude I decide to foster. This realization was a slow awakening that developed after reading the inspiration and wisdom of many great thinkers like Eckhart Tolle, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Rumi. Here are 40 inspirational quotes to lead you down the same path: 1. Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. Its when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that lifes not worth having. ~D. H. Lawrence 2. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. ~Rumi 3. If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present. ~Lao Tzu 4. Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no ones definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein 5. It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available--more than enough for you to be happy right now. You dont have to run into the future in order to get more. ~Thich Nhat Hanh 6. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. ~William James 7. Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life youre living? ~Bob Marley 8. Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Dont resist them--that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. ~Lao Tzu 9. We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell 10. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~T.S. Eliot 11. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas A. Edison 12. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ~Pablo Picasso 13. Go where you are celebrated -- not tolerated. If they cant see the real value of you, its time for a new start. ~Unknown 14. Youve gotta dance like theres nobody watching, Love like youll never be hurt, Sing like theres nobody listening, And live like its heaven on earth. ~William W. Purkey 15. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. ~Oscar Wilde 16. When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. ~Alexander Graham Bell 17. Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it. ~Mother Teresa 18. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~Albert Einstein 19. Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. ~Dr. Seuss 20. Life isnt about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~George Bernard Shaw 21. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ~Anne Frank 22. I wanted a perfect ending. Now Ive learned, the hard way, that some poems dont rhyme, and some stories dont 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 whats going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. ~Gilda Radner 23. There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open- hearted vision of people who embrace life. ~John Lennon 24. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. ~Helen Keller 25. Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life. ~Eckhart Tolle 26. I cant change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ~Jimmy Dean 27. It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~George Eliot 28. The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. ~Marcel Pagnol. 29. Too many people spend money they havent earned, to buy things they dont want, to impress people they dont like. ~Will Rogers. 30. Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security. ~John Allen Paulos 31. Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. ~Marcus Aurelius 32. So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key. ~The Eagles 33. Our prime purpose in life is to help others. And if you cant help them, at least dont hurt them. ~Dalai Lama 34. So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when theyre busy doing things they think are important. This is because theyre chasing the wrong things. ~Morrie Schwartz 35. Isnt it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different. ~C.S. Lewis 36. Let life be an adventure. Live your life to the fullest, unfettered by fear of the ghosts and goblins of what might occur. Calamity and death happen as well to those who hide from life as to those who squeeze every drop of zest from it. ~Jonathan Lockwood Huie 37. Lifes journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting HOLY CRAP...WHAT A RIDE! ~Anonymous 38. The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. ~Albert Ellis 39. I hope you live a life youre proud of. If you find that youre not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald 40. Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life. Dont be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other peoples thinking. Dont let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. ~Steve Jobs
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:45:45 +0000
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