Quotes about life
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It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day — as long as you treat it that way.
It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.
The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
Every day, I like to wake up and remind myself to be grateful of the simple things.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.
I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.