Words To Live By Quotes

“If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future.”
― Germany Kent

“You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults," he said to her. "Love has no place for idealization.”
― Sudhir Kakar, The Seeker: A Novel

“Of course he was afraid of war. Only fools are not. Anaxantis was no fool. He was fully prepared to fight, but only as a last resort.”
― Andrew Ashling, The Invisible Hands - Part 1: Gambit

“It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entrust oneself to someone who knows not that he knows not. Has a man ever learnt swimming by tying a stone to his neck? So let me go my own way even if it is the wrong one.”
― Sudhir Kakar, The Seeker: A Novel

“Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you can't beat them, you join them. You force yourself to think like they think.”
― Lee Child, Die Trying

“Every human act had a power behind it, every power had an authority, and every authority had a purpose-dirty bombs constituted by free will and amended by angelic and demonic influence unto the driving of humanity-it was very much active directing. ~RUIN Katara Aggelos”
― Lucian Bane, The Judgement

“Most of us would eventually lose count if we were to literally count our blessings.”
― @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become.”
― Emma Paul

“Learning how to live would take most people at least three lifetimes.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Our efforts do not owe us our desired outcomes.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Your words have power. [...]

"How are you?"
"Ah - can't complain," or "No use complaining," or "Not too bad."
How does the brain respond to these dreary views?
Is it a "pain in the neck" to do the dishes? Is it "one big headache" to balance your checkbook? Are you "sick and tired" of the weather we are having?

I am convinced that [doctors] owe a large part of their income to the words we use. Remember, the brain is no subtle interpreter. It says, "This guy's asking for a headache. Okay. One headache coming up."

Of course, every time that we say something gives us a pain, a pain does not immediately result. The body's natural state is good health, and all its processes are geared toward health. In time, though, with enough verbal pounding away at its defenses, it delivers up the very illnesses we order.”
― José Silva, The Silva Mind Control Method

“Being educated is the closest most people will ever get to being wise or intelligent.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Lembro que você disse, certa vez, que a morte pode ser inesperada, mas as palavras não.”
― Jeferson Tenório, O avesso da pele

“It doesn’t matter who started it” are probably six of most insidious words in the English language. Of course it matters.”
― David Graeber, The Bully's Pulpit: On The Elementary Structure of Domination

“We all feel eloquence we can’t put into words.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“You don’t have to say a word, because your actions speak volumes for you.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“A better attitude towards life is better than a better life, and leads to a better life.”
― @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Do not underestimate anything, no matter how small. Everything exists for a reason, and nothing is too small.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Theaters? Backdrop for acting. Relationships? Backdrop for honesty.”
― Kari L. Greenaway

“The word for the world has already been spoken.”
― Aron Micko H.B

“Don't hate the person, hate the action.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
― Mother Tereasa

“Because it has to be done. Because if you see something like this, and you can fix it, then it’s your mess to clean up.”
― Dervla McTiernan, The Murder Rule

“Except for seafood and toilet paper,
‘NEW’ is terrible………”
― Tim Dorsey

“Kümmere dich um deine eignen Wünsche und Bedürfnisse." S. 222”
― Deborah Harkness, The Black Bird Oracle

“This was the mortal condition, she realized. She would never know with certainty the right path; she would never experience enough to act with absolute conviction; she would never be able to eliminate all suffering.
All she could do was to act in the here and now, to live and die for love, to fight and battle for friendship, to trust in a conscience that was never perfect but capable of being perfected, to scintillate in the bright light of winter on the frozen beach suspended between the eternal ocean and the inconstant land for the brief instant allotted to us all.”
― Ken Liu, Speaking Bones

“Words are nice for man to say but impossible to do without said man being faithful to its fulfillment.”
― Hugh Mahn, IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH

“If words could water, I wonder what mine would do — blossom flowers or burn gardens?”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“A smart man learns from his own mistakes. A wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”
― Unknown Author

“I am sick. I am nauseous. The problem is I am starting to understand life.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things