SHORT DEEP QUOTES ABOUT LIFE BY FAMOUS PEOPLE
“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.”
John C. Maxwell
“Beware of the barrenness of a busy life.”
Socrates
“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan
“We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love...and then we return home.”
Australian Aboriginal Proverb
“There is no such thing as work-life balance.
Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life."
Alain de Botton
“I cried when I had no shoes, but I stopped crying when I saw a man without legs.”
Shakespeare
“Promise yourself today to be just as enthusiastic about others as you are about your own.”
Christian D. Larson
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“I thank you Lord for my old age. Each day is an opportunity to love and serve.”
Margaret Borg
TOP POPES' LIFE QUOTES
"Life is a precious gift, but we realise this only when we give it to others."
I feel like a failure: pathetic and inadequate.
Shh! I am very emotionally literate.
I know I can be socially awkward: easily intimidated and shy.
Shh! People compliment me on my blue eyes.
Not much of a logical or numerical thinker.
Shh! My friends tell me I can be a good singer.
At times I question the purpose of my existence:
Why did God create me? Wherefore did He send me?
Shh! Maybe I was sent to brighten others’ lives by being caring and friendly.
At times I am too much of an idealist.
Shh! At least I’m not a pessimist.
Too taken in by outside allure.
Shh! Facing difficulties made me mature.
Sometimes my mind is in the clouds, even when focus would be imperative.
Shh! I am very intuitive and sometimes creative.
I can be a quick quitter: I easily give up.
Shh! At least I know how to shut the bad thoughts up.
Cause that’s what I’ve been doing all along:
sing a positive verse when I don’t like the song.
The negative adjectives are so real and they make me so blue.
But that doesn’t stop the positive adjectives from also being true.
Although at times I make myself mad,
Negative thinking will only make me more sad.
I am what I am: all the good and the bad.
I deserve love from myself; no one can love me as much as I can.
Some people grow up on a farm. Others have the love and passion for it, and start off something themselves. Joseph Farrugia, a village man from Żurrieq - Malta is one of the former. He says that, “lessons from farming can be learnt both by those who make a living out of farming as well as by those who farm as a hobby. It is difficult for someone who does not have these experiences to understand what it means to be a farmer.”
Lesson 1: Learn to face the different seasons of life...
Lesson 2: Let go of certainty, and take life as it comes...
Lesson 3: When things go wrong, pluck up your courage and start again...
Lesson 4: Speak up in the face of injustice...
Lesson 5: Learn from your mistakes and move forward...
Lesson 6: Respect rules, people’s dignity and be aware of others' needs...
Lesson 7: Learn to be flexible, patient and to adapt...
Lesson 8: One does not reap, if one does not sow...
Lesson 9: Learn to work with others...
Lesson 10: Everything comes from God...
Lesson 11: Do whatever you can do, don’t wait for someone else to do it...