Life is

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”
? Mother Teresa

Life

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
~ Charles Darwin ~

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
~ Buddha ~

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
~ Socrates ~

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
~ Robert Byrne ~

While there’s life, there’s hope.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~

Your life is what your thoughts make it.
~ Marcus Aurelius ~

Nick Vujicic: Life Without Limbs

Fate

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Encouragement, Moving On

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
~ Richard Bach ~

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose,
for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.
~ Mary Pickford ~

It doesn’t matter how many say it cannot be done
or how many people have tried it before;
it’s important to realize that whatever you’re doing,
it’s your first attempt at it.
~ Wally Amos ~

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces,
never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.
~ Flavia Weedn ~

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end
may also be only the beginning.
~ Ivy Baker Priest ~

Experience is not what happens to you;
it is what you do with what happens to you.
~ Aldous Huxley ~

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~

And this too, shall pass away.
~ unknown ~

When you feel like giving up,
remember why you held on for so long in the first place.
~ unknown ~

Instead of giving myself reasons why I can’t,
I give myself reasons why I can.
~ unknown ~

When one door closes another door opens;
but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door,
that we do not see the ones which open for us.
~ Alexander Graham Bell ~

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity
loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
~ William James ~

Risk more than others think is safe.
Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical.
Expect more than others think is possible.
~ Claude Bissell ~

Never let the odds keep you from doing
what you know in your heart you were meant to do.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~

A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.
~ unknown ~

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
~ Benjamin Spock ~

Adversity is like a strong wind.
It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn,
so that we see ourselves as we really are.
~ Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha ~

When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters
one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
~ John F. Kennedy ~

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief,
as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
~ Cicero ~