Dwell On The Beauty Of Life

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.
( Hayley Williams )

If only our eyes saw souls instead of just bodies.
How very different our ideals of beauty would be.

Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
( Alice Hoffman )

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love. 
( Marcus Aurelius )

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted.
That someone else’s life would not have been as rich without us here. 
( Jodi Picoult )

The world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by. 
( Nikki Giovanni )

The harder you work, the luckier you get.
I’ve never been one to expect results just because I think I deserve them.
I work really hard, and the more I do, the more opportunities come my way.
You create your own luck.
My brain never stops ticking over with ideas.
( Alesha Dixon )

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. 
( Helen Keller )

No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it. 
( Richard Bach )

Keep your best wishes close to your heart and watch what happens.
( Tony DeLiso )

The opinions of many people don’t always agree with the facts or the truth.
The opinions of intelligent, critical-thinking people will always agree with both the facts and the truth.
( Wilfred Soon )

Progress just means bad things happen faster. 
( Terry Pratchett )

You don’t have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground.
If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.
( Red Haircrow )

At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets. 
( Steve Maraboli )

Life is problems.
Living is solving problems.
( Raymond E. Feist )

We don’t have to like people.
We don’t have to be friends with them.. 
But we have to forgive them, to overlook, and to forget.

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.
( Jim Butcher )

Get even with those who have helped you.
And forget those who have hurt you.

I realise that life is risks.
It’s acknowledging the past but looking forward.
It’s taking a chance that we will make mistakes but believing that we all deserve to be forgiven.
( Carrie Ryan )

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.
( Lemony Snicket )

A meaningful silence is always better than meaningless words.

If there’s a thing I’ve learned in my life it’s to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people.
What we do for love, those things endure.
Even if the people you do them for don’t.
( Cassandra Clare )

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
( Virginia Woolf )

If you think negatively, negative things will happen.
Things can blossom when you have a positive mindset and the right intentions.
You have to be a careful observer and be proactive about changing your behaviour.
( Alesha Dixon )

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
( Henry Miller )

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
( Eleanor Roosevelt )

If you are found to have lied, even just the once, then all your truths become questionable.

Earth’s crammed with heaven.
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.
( Elizabeth Barrett Browning )

No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.
( Dalai Lama )

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.
I have been bent and broken, but, I hope, into a better shape.
( Charles Dickens )

Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen.
They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs.
False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
( Paulo Coelho )

We have only one master, and that is Mother Nature.

People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
( Elisabeth Kübler-Ross )

The whole of life is just like watching a film.
Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.
( Terry Pratchett )

Dwell on the beauty of life.
Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
( Marcus Aurelius )

Relax. The future will take care of itself.
That’s what I’d tell my teenage self.
Enjoy the present, because you only get one chance to be young.
There’s no point worrying about what might happen, because it probably won’t.
Be positive and work hard.
( Alesha Dixon )

I prefer peace.
But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
( Thomas Paine )

Looking at what some people do and say, I often wonder if all humans have a soul.

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.
( Jerry Rubin )

Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan.
They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person.
They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people’s ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with.
And that is why they forget their dreams.
( Paulo Coelho )

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
( Jiddu Krishnamurti )

Those who do not weep, do not see.
( Victor Hugo )

You’ve got this life and while you’ve got it, you’d better kiss like you only have one moment, try to hold someone’s hand like you will never get another chance to, look into people’s eyes like they’re the last you’ll ever see, watch someone sleeping like there’s no time left, jump if you feel like jumping, run if you feel like running, play music in your head when there is none, and eat cake like it’s the only one left in the world.
( C. JoyBell C. )

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
( Roald Dahl )

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear.
If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
( Thich Nhat Hanh )

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
( Rabindranath Tagore )

We must all be so strong that nothing can disturb our peace of mind.
( Rose Winfold )

What the soul hardly realises is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.
( Dom Hubert Van Zeller )

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
( C.S. Lewis )

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence.
But by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
( Henry Ward Beecher )

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
( Frida Kahlo )

If you are a dreamer, come in.
( Shel Silverstein )

You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it.
So many people are in pain, no matter how smart or accomplished.
They cry, they yearn, they hurt.
But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too.
Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things.
Comfort, love and a peaceful heart.
( Mitch Albom )

What is now proved was once only imagined.
( William Blake )

I’m a happy person.
If you want to be around me, you can either choose to be happy too, or follow the signs to the nearest exit.
( Sharon Swan )

If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
( Abraham Harold Maslow )

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money.
It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
( Franklin D. Roosevelt )

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
( George Washington )

Always find time and find a reason to laugh.
It might not add years to your life, but it will surely add life to your years.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
( William Blake )

Happiness is home.
And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit.
It is a state of mind.
A place of communion and unconditional love.
It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace.
( Dennis Lehane )

Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.
( Ben Carson )

Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now..
But it doesn’t work that way.
Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does.
It’s by living that you live more.
By waiting you wait more.
Every waiting day makes your life a little less.
Every lonely day makes you a little smaller.
Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.
( Ann Brashares )

Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want.
( Steve Maraboli )

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
( Charles Dickens )

There is no greater power than that of a laugh, and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.
( Hillary DePiano )

If we smile at someone, he or she will smile back.
And a smile costs nothing.
We should plague everyone with joy.
If we are to die in a minute, why not die happily, laughing?
( Swami Satchidananda )

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

It’s a dangerous business, going out your door.
You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
( J.R.R. Tolkien )

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done.
One is called yesterday, and the other is called tomorrow.
So today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.
( Dalai Lama )