"life"タグの名言

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

Personally, I don’t like inherently happy people. I don’t trust them. I think there’s something seriously wrong with anyone who isn’t at least a little let down by the world.

7 Effective Ways to Make Others Feel Important 1. Use their name. 2. Express sincere gratitude. 3. Do more listening than talking. 4. Talk more about them than about you. 5. Be authentically interested. 6. Be sincere in your praise. 7. Show you care.

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)

When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Make the most of the best and the best of the worst, and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving.

Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. That pain is like an axe that chops at my heart.

EARLY BIRD Oh, if you’re a bird, be an early bird And catch the worm for your breakfast plate. If you’re a bird, be an early early bird-- But if you’re a worm, sleep late.

The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

Do not let the roles you play in life make you forget who you are.

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.

You were born to stand out, stop trying to fit in.