The Living Quotes
The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked with dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.
At times, it's better to think of exactly what is happening right in front of you every second, rather than going through things from the past in your mind.
When you're young your reality is accepted by most. When you're older, your reality changes and that seems to upset most people.
Now that I've let go of my story, I can let go of my life.
What can I say at seventy-five? "Thank God for my good life, and for all the love that has been given to me.
Rather than recount his life as he has lived it, he must live his life as he will recount it.
In general, things either work out or they don’t, and if they don’t, you figure out something else, a plan B. There’s nothing wrong with plan B.
Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it
Everyone should have a form of a diary it’s a great release Most people’s Diaries are called "My Diary" Mines called "Conversations with Me".
Take a giant drink of natures endless stream let it spout from your mouth in words so serene.
I guess the all and all answer in life is what Facades you want to believe in the most.
The needles they poke you with leaves a hole that closes in. But unkind words can make a hole that will never mend.
I've been playing the game of life for over 52 years now and I don't feel one day younger or older than I am. Maybe its I just don't feel
Some people live a lifetime every second, others only a second in a life time with little happiness to find. Learn to seize each and every second and make your life divine!
Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today. I want to be a part of it. New York... New York..." New York, New York - Fred Ebb/John Kander
If I could catch a Star and hold it in my hand. I would illuminate those whose life is not so grand.
You ever wake up in the morning and kiss the mirror and say "HELLO BEAUTIFUL" if not you have the wrong connection with your reflection.
It (the sun) didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.
If you put in the effort and focus towards a goal, you will get there quicker than most.
We must design how we wish to be perceived, and then we must work even harder to continuously recreate and re-evaluate that perception.
From today onward, you will learn how to become evangelical about the many ways you help people.
You should feel so driven to help the world that it would weigh you down if a single person received anything but the best.
To my shame, I had never thought to ask anything of the future, and yet woke each and every day embittered because it was never what I needed it to be.
I see what I have to become and I recognise the time it will take.
And by making that plan you have differentiated yourself from more than ninety percent of the population. You are one of the few, who has a clear direction, a decisive plan of action.
If I listened to all the noise in the worldI would have many standards to conform to But the zeal to succeedCuts through the racket
As soon as I can find the courage to put my plans to action, I will turn from being a “maybe man” into someone whose future success lies completely in his own hands.
Falling has become far more terrifying to me than rising.
Could trying your hardest, but never being quite good enough ever be acceptable to anyone? Is that what your dreams are made of?
I’ll record what I’ve learnt on the subject of what I sell. What it actually is means little to anyone other than me, but what it does and how it helps, means everything to those who require it.
Moving continuously forward doesn’t necessarily get us to where we want to be, just somewhere other than where we started.
It’s your own personal statement of who you want to become, based on how you wish to be remembered.
You know, I have never met a young man who recognises the true value in this exercise, and yet I have met hundreds of old men who wished someone had shared it with them in their youth.
I must turn myself around so that I am viewing life as my prospects see it. Only then can I start addressing their issues, help to prevent their pain, and advise on solutions to their problems.
No one ever reached the top of a mountain by digging underneath it.
Can a farmer plants his seeds and then demand the crops to grow before harvest?
It’s not how I view being a salesman. It’s how I live being a salesman.
Accept the good, however big or small, with no strings attached.
So many of us have settled for what is, rather than what could be.
That’s what marks out the successful from the nearly-rans. Focusing on what makes people itch rather than continuously presenting an entire catalogue of scratches.