30 Quotes That Will Rip Apart The

Way You See Your Life

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By BRIANNA WIEST
To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or
struggling, in exchange for something more
powerful and wholesome which comes out of
allowing things to be as they are without getting
caught up in your attraction to or rejection of
them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of
liking and disliking. Jon Kabat-Zinn
Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and
strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness
very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant;
wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in
great places, people of sense in small, and
mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it
stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no
evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever
and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it
nor dispense with it. Henry James
Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I
can see, including and perhaps most of all, the
door into ones own secret, and often terrible and
frightening, real self. May Sarton
It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder
you try to hold on to something or someone the
more it wants to get away. You feel like some
kind of criminal for having felt, for having
wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It
confuses you, because you think that your
feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so
small because its so hard to keep it inside when
you let it out and it doesnt coma back. Youre left
so alone that you cant explain. Damn, theres
nothing like that, is there? Ive been there and you
have too. Youre nodding your head. Henry
Rollins
All parents damage their children. It cannot be
helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the
prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge,
others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely
into jagged little pieces, beyond repair. Mitch
Albom
Thomas Edisons last words were Its very
beautiful over there. I dont know where there is,
but I believe its somewhere, and I hope its
beautiful. John Green
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
Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up
in the middle of the night with the feeling that
they are all alone in the world, and that nobody
loves them now and that nobody will ever love
them, and that they will never have a decent
nights sleep again and will spend their lives
wandering blearily around a loveless landscape,
hoping desperately that their circumstances will
improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts,
that they will remain unloved forever. The best
thing to do in these circumstances is to wake
somebody else up, so that they can feel this way,
too. Lemony Snicket
Look again at that dot. Thats here. Thats home.
Thats us. On it everyone you love, everyone you
know, everyone you ever heard of, every human
being who ever was, lived out their lives. The
aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of
confident religions, ideologies, and economic
doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero
and coward, every creator and destroyer of
civilization, every king and peasant, every young
couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful
child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of
morals, every corrupt politician, every
superstar, every supreme leader, every saint
and sinner in the history of our species lived
there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic
arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the
inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the
scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some
other corner, how frequent their
misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill
one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of
the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals
and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they
could become the momentary masters of a
fraction of a dot. Our posturings, our imagined
self-importance, the delusion that we have some
privileged position in the Universe, are
challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet
is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic
dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there
is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to
save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only
world known so far to harbor life. There is
nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which
our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not
yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is
where we make our stand. It has been said that
astronomy is a humbling and character-building
experience. There is perhaps no better
demonstration of the folly of human conceits than
this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it
underscores our responsibility to deal more
kindly with one another, and to preserve and
cherish the pale blue dot, the only home weve
ever known. Carl Sagan
You cannot protect yourself from sadness
without protecting yourself from happiness.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as
nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Oscar Wilde
We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by
choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our
control. When we learn what it is our soul needs
to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we
see the way out but wander further and deeper
despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the
sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we
prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes its
easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But
regardless, always, we are found. Cecelia
Ahern
Dont struggle so much, the best things happen
when not expected. Gabriel Garca Mrquez
Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that
only loneliness can help you find them again.
Some truths are so painful that only shame can
help you live with them. Some things are so sad
that only your soul can do the crying for them.
Gregory David Roberts
So we shall let the reader answer this question
for himself: who is the happier man, he who has
braved the storm of life and lived or he who has
stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
Hunter S. Thompson
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must
not love. But then one suffers from not loving.
Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to
suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to
love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering
makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one
must love or love to suffer or suffer from too
much happiness. Woody Allen
Dont bend; dont water it down; dont try to
make it logical; dont edit your own soul
according to the fashion. Rather, follow your
most intense obsessions mercilessly. Franz
Kafka
All truth passes through three stages: First, it is
ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third,
it is accepted as self-evident. Arthur
Schopenhauer
The essence of being human is that one does not
seek perfection. George Orwell
Always go too far, because thats where youll
find the truth Albert Camus
Every day we slaughter our finest impulses.
That is why we get a heartache when we read
those lines written by the hand of a master and
recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots
which we stifled because we lacked the faith to
believe in our own powers, our own criterion of
truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet,
when he becomes desperately honest with
himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.
We all derive from the same source. there is no
mystery about the origin of things. We are all
part of creation, all kings, all poets, all
musicians; we have only to open up, only to
discover what is already there. Henry Miller
Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a
lie. But because you believed it, you found
something true about yourself. Alan Moore
Dont mire up in self despair of your losses, learn
from them and move on to other good things in
life. Dont stop allowing the sunshine in because
of the fear that winter will come and engulf the
warmth. Hold it close to you to help you through
those cold winter days. Belinda Taylor
The enduring life is the one that begins once we
awaken from this world. And it is in that
awakening that we realize It was only a
dream Yasmin Mogahed
Its a lot to live up to. These pressures of
achieving. From the moment youre born, youre
pounded with the expectations of what you need
to actualize in order to become a success. Go to
college. Get married. Raise a family. Its what
youre supposed to do. The plans youre supposed
to make. The life youre supposed to live. Diverge
from the norm and youre frowned upon.
Questioned. Shunned. Theres something wrong
with you if youre not interested in improving
yourself. If you cant make a commitment of
marriage. If you dont want to have children. So
people earn a college degree so they can get a
good job. They work at a job they hate just to
earn a living. They spend two months salary on
an engagement ring. They pop out a couple of
kids they dont really want just so they can fit in.
Because its what their parents did. Because its
what society expects you to do. Because its safer
to take the same path everyone else has traveled.
Truth is, no ones listening to Robert Frost.
S.G. Browne
Sometimes the door closes on a relationship, not
because we failed but because something bigger
than us says this no longer fits our life. So, lock
the door, shed a tear, turn around and look for
the new door thats opened. Its a sign that youre
no longer that person you were, its time to
change into who you are. Its going to be okay.
Lee Goff
The opposite of love is not hate, its indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, its
indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy,
its indifference. And the opposite of life is not
death, its indifference. Elie Wiesel
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions
and billions of years before I was born, and had
not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Mark Twain
Its better to burn out than to fade away. Neil
Young
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