“Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.”
Life is the subject that contains all other subjects. These quotes take on existence itself — its brevity, its beauty, its unfairness, and the stubborn human insistence on finding meaning in it anyway. Big questions, no easy answers.
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“Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.”
“Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.”
“Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.”
“What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.”
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life define yourself.”
“We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.”
“People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.”
“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.”
“We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.”
“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.”
“Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.”
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”
“At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.”
“I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.”