All Quotes By Tag: Life-lessons

“(…)best of luck, avoid roasted cabbage, don’t eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”

“But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it’s inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can’t really work for other people.”

“If experience is the best teacher, there’s nothing that comes close to the experience of life.”

“Things can be cleaned and replaced. Great moments cannot afford to be lost.”

“What I think is not necessarily, what I feel and what I feel is not necessarily, what I think.”

“We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.”

“He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they’d once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.”

“You get towards the end of life—no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment of pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong?”

“When you’re down, remember your triumphs. […] Sometimes you get in trouble and crash. Other times: just a bumpy landing.”

“Trust me, it’s paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven’t tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It’s probably worth it.”

“Big house, big car, big breast, big life, big this and big that; what is so big about living big? Live on KISS principle not BIG principle.”

“We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment’s scenarios. Pattern recognition.”

“Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.”

“If you cannot see yourself fairly or accurately represented in the community where you live… and nothing there makes you feel awake or alive, I suggest you start doing some research on some other communities”

“الصديقان النموذجيان كما زوج من القنافذ,يتعاطفان,و يتعاونان و يتلازمان,و لكن لا يذوبان فى يعضهما لأن كل واحد له درقة من الأشواك تحميه من أن يقتحم عليه الاّخر خصوصيته و سريته و ينتهك وحدانية نفسه و قدسية استقلاله.”