Quotes on Life Lessons
Life is a continuous stream of miraculous processes and events. As within, so without…as above, so below…
These quotes on life lessons are intended to remind you of the complexity of this magical journey called Life. They are also meant to show you the simplicity of how each person navigates this excursion differently. Everyone learns and acquires their degree of wisdom by living life to the best of their abilities.
The life quotes are meant to inspire you in one way or another, perhaps help you maneuver through a rough patch on your path, or to nudge you when courage is required, or to just simply let you reflect on its deeper meaning. Enjoy your interpretation of these gems and share them with your community.
“Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.”
“It is pleasing to discover that it isn’t necessary to drive oneself forward; instead, one can simply allow oneself to move forward as blocks are removed. Thus, one becomes attracted by the future rather than propelled by the past.”
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
“If nothing changes...nothing changes!”
“There will come a time when a diseased condition will not be described as it is today by physicians and psychologists, but it will be spoken of in musical terms, as one would speak of a piano that was out of tune.”
“I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost... I am helpless. It isn’t my fault. It takes forever to find a way out.
I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don’t see it. I fall in again. I can’t believe I am in the same place. But, it isn’t my fault. It still takes me a long time to get out.
I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I see it is there. I still fall in. It’s a habit. My eyes are open. I know where I am. It is my fault. I get out immediately.
I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it.
I walk down another street.”
“Once we crack ourselves open from our perceived limitations, we can have an embodied experience of active hope to manifest authentic connection, joy, and buoyancy.”
“In a universe where ‘like goes to like’ and ‘birds of a feather fly together’, we attract to us that which we emanate.”
“We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.”
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”
“The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.”
“Action absorbs anxiety...”
“No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.”
“You have to give to receive. You have to surrender to something outside yourself to gain strength within yourself. You have to conquer your desire to get what you crave. Success leads to the greatest failure, which is pride. Failure leads to the greatest success, which is humility and learning. In order to fulfill yourself, you have to forget yourself. In order to find yourself, you have to lose yourself.”
“Look in the mirror and you will see the best doctor you will ever know.”
“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”
“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”
“An extremely valuable insight that is learned by all spiritually evolved persons in the course of their development is seeing one’s own personal consciousness as the decisive influence that determines all that occurs in life. ”
“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.”
“Thanks to impermanence anything is possible.”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence therefore is not an action, but a habit.”
“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never thrust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.”
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.”
“Gratitude is the ultimate state of receivership.”
“Enlightenment is not a one time event. We must each seek to become enlightened everyday.”
“The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
“The person who is in tune with the Universe becomes like a radio receiver, through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted.”
“Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.”
“Our fears and terrors can be activated by the news, but they are not who we are. We are consciousness itself, loving awareness, born into this body and having a wild human ride. What will you do with this human dance?”
“The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination.”
“Straight and narrow is the path, waste no time!”
“The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music.”
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
“Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.”
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”
“Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.”
“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
“The greatest pleasure of life is love.”
“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.”
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
“When you cease to dream you cease to live.”
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.”
“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”
“The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe.”
“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything we talk about, everything we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.”
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
“If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.”
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.”
“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.”
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
“Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”
“The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others, at whatever cost.”
“The secret of happiness, you see is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
“Life is fragile and short and worth all the loving presence we can bring to it.”
“Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.”
“The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment.”
“Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.”
“Just disconnect. Once in a day sometime, sit silently and from all connections disconnect yourself.”
“Wholeness does not mean perfection. It means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.”
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously, that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case you fail by default.”
“The life pouring through us, pumping our heart and breathing through our lungs, did not begin at our birth or conception. Like every particle in every atom and molecule of our bodies, it goes back through time to the first splitting and spinning of the stars.”
“Gratitude is the confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life.”
“You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.”
“Walls turned sideways are bridges.”
“The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.”
“Surrender isn’t a sacrifice of the known, but rather a celebration of the infinite.”
“Prayer is not sending in an order and expecting it to be fulfilled. Prayer is attuning yourself to the life of the world, to love, the force that moves the sun and the moon and the stars.”
“A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.”
“God is the quantum field of infinite intelligence and Love: A divine, responsive, and dynamic co-creative force of energy in which all life is embedded including us. A force that exists within everything, enlivens everything, and from which everything is made manifest.”