#iv

Surviving is one thing," he said quietly, his voice suddenly calmer, "but you've got to have a reason to do it. There's no point in living if you don't have anything worth living for. ↗

— David Moody

#living #reason #survival #life

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#the-good-life #life

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living. ↗

— Alison Croggon

#living #music #singing #song #life

and I'm trying so hard, with all my heart and mind, to make your life as good as you've made mine... ↗

— Relient K

#relient-k #songs #life

Never confuse someone else's inability to do something with its inability to be done. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #motivational #life

Free yourself from the inauthenticity and disempowerment of your story. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#disempowerment #life #motivational #story #success

I don’t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#autism #oliver-sacks #life

Life is a purposeful action. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#psychology #psychotherapy #spirituality #waiting-to-live #life

And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea. ↗

— Voltaire

#life

You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it. ↗

— Darren Shan

#life #motivational #self-reliance #inspirational