All Quotes By Tag: Life-lessons

“Life is a spiral.As long as we lived, we would keep moving forward. But on a spiral path, getting closer to your destination meant periodically passing the same things—emotions, issues, character flaws—over and over again, the way a person walking up a spiral staircase would continually find himself facing north every ten steps or so.”

“Tennis taught me to take chances, to take life as it comes. To hit every ball that comes to me no matter how hard it looks, to give it my best shot.”

“In the beginning the Poets and Philosophers taught the world to see. Then after that any form of education was no longer free.”

“I learned long ago to never be disappointed by people. Especially politicians.”

“When life gives you a lemon, chuck it right back…. and add a few lemons of your own.”

“Don’t you oh well me,sir,” Miss Maudie replied, recognizing Jem’s fatalistic noises, “you are not old enough to appreciate what I said.”

“Some good can emerge from the most horrific of events. There is something positive hidden in every negative, and something negative in every positive. Life is complicated, and a balanced person can see both sides.”

“Don’t talk of Life as if its one big package of miseries – it is the very Essence within that passes through both you, and your enemies and every permissible illusion. Once you’re opened to, and are awakened to your TRUE NATURE, fireworks light up your path, irrespective whether it is a “Tariqa”, or a pathless one!”

“Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy”

“If you have ever come up against Nothing you have no idea how it can scare you out of your wits. When I was a child I used to be afraid of Something in the dark. I know now that the most fearful thing about the dark is that we may find Nothing in it.”

“Join the mob or go for what you want. Give yourself plenty of quiet time alone in order to get in touch with who you are…Focus power of thought. Remind yourself that the world is yours for the asking. The non-risker does not grow, you just get older. When you have decided which ideas, beliefs, relationships, and situations no longer work for you, it is time to release them. Let go of negative thoughts – view them as a flight of birds crossing your path. See them fly into view and continue on their way.’ – from Joan Root’s diary”

“Love does not only need a taste, but it also needs a present.”

“It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.”

“Absent a sense of the preciousness of one’s own life, why respect the life of anyone else?”

“الحياة تعلمنا أفضل وأصعب دروسها فى اللحظة التى نطمأن فيها الى اننا تعلمنا كل شيء”