Life Quotes - Luxury is Not a Necessity

 

Luxury is Not a Necessity 

“make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.”

― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

 

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”

― Oprah Winfrey

 

“I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”

― Bill Watterson

 

“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”

― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

 

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

 

“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

 

“Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”

― Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic

 

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

― Helen Keller, The Open Door

 

“I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

 

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”

― John Keats, Letters of John Keats

 

“to love life, to love it even

when you have no stomach for it

and everything you've held dear

crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,

your throat filled with the silt of it.

When grief sits with you, its tropical heat

thickening the air, heavy as water

more fit for gills than lungs;

when grief weights you like your own flesh

only more of it, an obesity of grief,

you think, How can a body withstand this?

Then you hold life like a face

between your palms, a plain face,

no charming smile, no violet eyes,

and you say, yes, I will take you

I will love you, again.”

― Ellen Bass

 

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”

― Virginia Woolf

 

“Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.”

― Roy T. Bennett

 

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”

― Aldous Huxley

 

“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”

― Anais Nin

 

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;

Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'

Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;

Man got to tell himself he understand.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

 

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

 

“Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.”

― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

 

“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”

― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones