#life-lessons

"I like to believe that you don't need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don't go the way we might like them to, it's a sign from above that something even better is right around the corner."

"Today’s experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future."

"Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger."

"I welcome questions. I hate assumptions."

"No one can take the shot for you."

"Give up smoking cold turkey. Start a diet in the next 5 min. Accept that job right away. Life can be beautiful without planning!"

"But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope."

"The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."

"The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you."

"The Hot Air Balloon CharmLife Can Be Filled with Adventure If You Let Yourself Soar"

"Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!"

"We are the sum total of the decisions we have made."

"A child fish asks mother fish, 'Mother, why cannot we live on the Earth?' Mother fish replied, 'Dear… it is not the place for fish, it is the place for selfish"

"And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about."

"Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus."

"If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so."

"But that was life: Nobody got a guided tour to their own theme park. You had to hop on the rides as they presented themselves, never knowing whether you would like the one you were in line for...or if the bastard was going to make you throw up your corn dog and your cotton candy all over the place."

"Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity."

"Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps"

"When someone is rude to you, don't stoop to their level, stay calm and walk away with your head held high."