Life Moves Pretty Fast

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
( Anais Nin )

People do not change as they age.
They just become less tolerant, less inclined to put on a front and disguise their true feelings, and become more like their true selves.
Ageing is character enrichment.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. 
( Charles Darwin )

It’s better to stand alone with truth than in the company of lies.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get.
Life should be touched, not strangled.
You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.
( Ray Bradbury )

Time is the only little fragment of eternity that belongs to man, and, like life, it can never be recalled.

Life gives us choices.
You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines. 
( Christine Feehan )

A lie doesn’t become truth,
Wrong doesn’t become right,
And evil doesn’t become good,
Just because it’s accepted by a majority.

Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for. 
( Oliver James )

Life moves pretty fast.
If you don’t stop once in a while and look around, you’ll miss it.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
( Brian Tracy )

My mind says:   “Who cares?”
My heart says:  “You do, stupid”.

The aim of life is self-development.
To realise one’s nature perfectly.
That is what each of us is here for. 
( Oscar Wilde )

God bless the people who carry love in their soul and have hearts that care.

Every man’s life ends the same way.
It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. 
( Ernest Hemingway )

You must always remember that the only really predictable thing about life is that it is full of surprises and is eternally unpredictable.

Most people spend half their time worrying about what has happened and half their time worrying about what might happen at some time in the future.
This leaves them with no time to enjoy the now of their lives.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
( Oprah Winfrey )

The best things in life are cruelty free.

A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
( William Edgar Stafford )

If a man is born to ignorant parents, in a society that is ignorant, he may live a life of ignorance, believing it to be the norm.

Life is a journey.
Time is a river.
The door is ajar. 
( Jim Butcher )

It’s sad that so many people tend to believe whatever most others believe and are unable to think critically for themselves.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement. 
( Aberjhani )

The greatest achievements are those that benefit others.

Sometime in the near future, I pray that my faith can surpass the physical reality that appears in front of me and beyond me. 
( Patricia Graham )

Standing up for what you believe isn’t an option.
It is an integral part of life.
If you allow yourself to be cowed into silence by those who do wrong then you too become one of the guilty.
Real people are prepared to do the right thing whatever the cost.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.
( Doris Day )

May you go to Heaven an hour before the devil realises you are dead.

Your life can change in a moment, and you never see it coming.

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.
( Albert Einstein )

A person who does things that count doesn’t usually stop to count them.

Ask any wise man what he most desires and he will more than likely say ‘more wisdom’.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
( Mother Teresa )

The destructiveness of criticism is trivial compared to the damage done by those who ignore it.

Creativeness often consists of merely turning around what is already there.

The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.
But still there is much that is fair.
And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater.
( J.R.R. Tolkien )

For those who believe in God no explanation is necessary.
For those who don’t believe in God no explanation is possible.

There is only one important rule in life.
Do no harm to any living creature.

Faith means that it doesn’t matter what happens.
You can trust that somebody is watching.
Trust that somebody will make it right.
It means that there will always be a way.
( Brandon Sanderson )

Many people simply cannot cope with the idea of someone they know well becoming successful because it draws attention to their own failures and inadequacies.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
( A.A. Milne )

People who don’t have anything much of value to say always talk more loudly than everyone else in the mistaken belief that volume can compensate.

In the depths of winter, within me there lay an invincible summer.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things.
And only the wise can see them.
( Paulo Coelho )

We know nothing of tomorrow.
Our business is to be good and happy today.

The young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience.

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for.
And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
( Barbara Kingsolver )

Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of.
( Markus Zusak )

If the mountain seems too high today, then climb a hill instead.
The mountain will still be there when you want to try again.

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
( Joseph Campbell )

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days.
Other people will try to make you miserable.
Don’t help them by doing the job yourself.
( Laurell K. Hamilton )

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

Avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward.

She Is A Tree Of Life ..
Happy is the man who finds wisdom,
And the man who gets understanding.
For the gain from it is better than gain from silver
And its profit better than gold.
She is more precious than jewels,
And nothing you desire can compare with her.
Long life is in her right hand.
In her left hand are riches and honour.
Her ways are ways of pleasantness,
And all her paths are peace.
She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her.
Those who hold her fast are called happy.
( Solomon, Proverbs )

For anything worth having one must pay the price.
The price is always work, patience, love, and self-sacrifice.

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.
( Chuck Palahniuk )

When others know they did you wrong, they will do their best to avoid you.

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.
( Steve Maraboli )

If you learn something or gain experience from a defeat, you haven’t really lost.

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict.
Alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
( Dorothy Thompson )

A most beneficial use of time is silent meditation, while searching for guidance from within.

Act on your own initiative, but be prepared to assume full responsibility for your acts.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
( Sholem Aleichem )

Trusting you is my decision.
Proving me wrong is yours.

Rock ‘n’ Roll might not solve your problems.
But it does let you dance all over them.
( Pete Townshend )