Living Quotes

C. JoyBell C.

People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!

Roy T. Bennett

Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.

C. JoyBell C.

I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human.

Roy T. Bennett

Nothing can disturb your peace of mind unless you allow it to.

Roy T. Bennett

Be the positive impact on the lives of others.

Roy T. Bennett

Never let hard lessons harden your heart; the hard lessons of life are meant to make you better, not bitter.

Roy T. Bennett

Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.

Roy T. Bennett

Let go of something old that no longer serves you in order to make room for something new.

Thornton Wilder

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

C. JoyBell C.

I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin...a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary.

C. JoyBell C.

I don't understand dating.. and the other things that people do.. all I know is that you ought to find the one you recognize. The one who gives you four arms, four legs, four eyes, and has the other half of your heart. There's only one of those, so what are all the other things for? Like dating?

Annie Dillard

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

Roy T. Bennett

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.

Roy T. Bennett

Surround Yourself with People Who Believe in Your Dreams:Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

Roy T. Bennett

Challenge and adversity are meant to help you know who you are. Storms hit your weakness, but unlock your true strength.

Roy T. Bennett

Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart.

Roy T. Bennett

Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.

Roy T. Bennett

Your Life Is Happening Right Now: Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now.

C. JoyBell C.

Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you!

Wm. Paul Young

It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in its more subtle expressions like responsibility and expectation, is a vain attempt to create certainty out of uncertainty. And contrary to what you might think, I have a great fondness for uncertainty. Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

I Am ! Two powerful words.... You must confess... I Am who God called me to be. I Am a Success. I Am not what you think of me. I Am more than a conqueror. I Am walking by Faith. I Am a Gift.

Roy T. Bennett

If you believe very strongly in something, stand up and fight for it.

Roy T. Bennett

The outer world is a reflection of the inner world. Other people’s perception of you is a reflection of them; your response to them is an awareness of you.

C. JoyBell C.

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.

Roy T. Bennett

Always remember people who have helped you along the way, and don’t forget to lift someone up.

C. JoyBell C.

I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!

Roy T. Bennett

The biggest wall you have to climb is the one you build in your mind: Never let your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up. Never let your mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on the right track, the rest will follow.

Roy T. Bennett

Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy.

Roy T. Bennett

Create your own miracles; do what you think you cannot do.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.

Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.

Roy T. Bennett

Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

Sandra Hill

Times like this were special. Memory builders. When something extraordinary happened to a person the kind of things remembered forever after it didn't have to be a life-changing event like a graduation or marriage or birth of a child. It more often was the small things. The sheer joy of summer sunlight on a fragrant flower. The giggle of a toddler. The brush of a lover's fingertips. And the person marks the moment with the flashing insight thinking... This is special. I should remember this

Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Ernest Hemingway

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.

Kamand Kojouri

Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.

Mike Norton

The best way to be appreciative for your life is to live it; don't die for any other reason but love. Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

Roy T. Bennett

Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.

Roy T. Bennett

Real change is difficult at the beginning. Without the familiar to rely upon, you may not in as much command as you had once been. When things are not going your way, you will start doubting yourself. Stay positive, keep the faith, and keep moving forward – your breakthrough may be just around the corner.

Roy T. Bennett

Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.

Roy T. Bennett

Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.

Roy T. Bennett

Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.

Roy T. Bennett

You are not rich until you have a rich heart.

Roy T. Bennett

You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.

Roy T. Bennett

Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.

Roy T. Bennett

Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.

Roy T. Bennett

How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals.

Roy T. Bennett

You can have everything you want if you can put your heart and soul into everything you do.

Roy T. Bennett

Push your boundaries beyond the ordinary; be that extra in extraordinary.

Roy T. Bennett

Change course, but don’t give up.