Life Goals Quotes

“Life is capricious; one moment you're high on a mountain peak with flag in hand, the next you're clinging to an icy ledge by your fingertips.”
― Kevin Ansbro

“Her hand touched his hardness "You're a big boy," she said, playfully."Had no complaints," replied Simon.”
― Patrick C. Notchtree, The Clouds Still Hang

“All of us in combat were inextricably dependent on each other for our very lives. We were not only fighting for our country, we were fighting for each other.
• I know that part of what I was fighting for was the freedom we all cherish so dearly, including freedom of speech, but this is different. Having the right to free speech does not mean you have a right to your own facts or your own truth. Having free speech is not a free pass to spew hatred or to abandon civil discourse.
• The commitment and sacrifice of military members extends beyond combat. The sacrifices are real and exist twenty-four/seven regardless if we are in peacetime or war.
• In some way, we are like Plato’s prisoners chained in a cave, unable to turn our heads. We only see shadows on the cave wall. We are oblivious to the larger, more colorful and more desirable world outside of the cave.
• I think where religion may go astray is when leaders and followers of a specific religious doctrine or tradition mistake the vehicle of religion for truth itself.”
― Ron Garan, Floating in Darkness - A Journey of Evolution

“Torn between fear of retribution and fear of disaster, he stood unmoving, unable to leave...”
― Patrick C. Notchtree, The Clouds Still Hang

“Your possibilities are limited only by your imagination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“I find the thought of my children telling their friends their father is an accomplished author appealing. I used to think that I needed to be famous and write a bestseller to be considered accomplished and I very well may think that again at some later point, but for now in this moment, I sit with a smile on my face, holding tears of joy back, knowing that I am already an accomplished individual and that if I never create a best-selling book, I can still die a happy man.”
― Aaron Kyle Andresen, How Dad Found Himself in the Padded Room: A Bipolar Father's Gift For The World

“Keep a sharp eye on the game, and not the money. Money will pass away, but the game will play on.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Simon developed a keen interest in Scouts, he loved the ethos, the friendly company of the other boys.”
― Patrick C. Notchtree, The Clouds Still Hang

“I recall a story I love about Jung. One of his students came to him and asked: "Professor, could you please tell me the shortest distance to my life goal?" Without hesitation Jung replied, "The detour.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine

“Sensuality is the substance of all the things you desire and hope for.”
― Lebo Grand

“I hope I am more kind, patient, mindful, and forgiving than any previous days’ version.”
― Eric Overby, Legacy

“Poor is not the one who has no money, poor is the one who has no purpose.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“What should young people do with their lives?' That's a good question, and the writer Kurt Vonnegut once came up with a good answer.

'Many things, obviously,' he said. 'But the most daring is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
― Billy Baker, We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends

“She was walking through the shelves and imagining herself there one day, one spine tucked alongside all the others, fitting in perfectly.”
― Casey McQuiston

“Simon closed his mind to the past because of the pain of losing it and the future for fear of facing it.”
― Patrick C. Notchtree, The Clouds Still Hang

“We are not too young or old to live our dreams...but we do act out our mindset.”
― Richie Norton

“If there is something that you want to do but have held back from just because you are afraid, perhaps now is the right time to do it. If COVID has taught us nothing else, it is that we have no guarantee of how much time we have and what the future holds. Tempus fugit—time flies. It is up to us to decide if we will ride that flight of weeks, days, minutes or just stand there and watch it disappear.”
― Nancy Christie, The Gifts Of Change

“When the Honey is ripe, that is when I shall strike.”
― Teddy Baire

“If sensuality isn’t the main goal, then we’re honestly robbing ourselves and letting our life pass us by.”
― Lebo Grand

“You may not be talking with each other. But that does not mean that you have stopped caring for her. She is capable of taking decisions for herself. She is capable of facing life all by herself. You want her to be free. You want her to find her own way. Just once in a while, let her know that you still care for her.”
― Avijeet Das

“When you make positivity and happiness as your ultimate goals, superior performance and success in attaining other life goals—such as prosperity or career advancement—are often the unintended by-products.”
― Mirza Barlas, 6 Mega Life Transforming Hacks: Maximize Your Life Satisfaction, Experiences, and Results

“The body is only an instrument for the idea - it's the idea that lives not the body.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“It is said of the Dalai Lama that when he stops to talk to you, for that moment, he makes you feel that you are the most important thing in his life, you have his full attention.”
― Eric Overby, Legacy

“Don't compromise your cause to adjust with society, persist on your cause and the society will correct itself to adjust to you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Don't teach, live your life as a living teaching for all humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Homo: A Brief History of Consciousness

“What you get in the pursuit of ambition is secondary to what you become in the pursuit of ambition.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Today's mockery is tomorrow's applause.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Difficulties only add value to a dream.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“What is imperative is to keep the momentum going. The difference between success and failure is very thin.

The urge to win must be like a hunger inside you.”
― Avijeet Das

“I felt that I had got to escape not merely from imperialism but from every form of man's dominion over man.”
― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier