Life Quotes

"You can't think your way to a meaningful life; you have to live your way there."

"Being alive means being vulnerable to loss and pain."

"The goal is not to eliminate anxiety, but to build a life worth being anxious about."

"The goal is not a perfect mind, but a meaningful life."

"The willingness to feel is the willingness to be alive."

"The goal of DBT is to build a life worth living, not just a life worth surviving."

"The capacity to suffer is the flip side of the capacity to feel joy."

"If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all again. Provided the ending was different."

"A man's got to take care of his own backyard before he worries about the rest of the world."

"Life is full of pratfalls, and you just have to keep getting up."

"Life requires improvisation and flexibility."

"Life is the best screenplay ever written."

"The purpose of life is to enjoy it."

"A person is not an encapsulated thing. He is rather a point of intersection of life threads all having to do with him."

"The core of personality is not what one has or even what one does, but how one interprets these things."

"Your personality is your theory of life."

"We are bound by our anticipations, not our histories."

"The struggle for existence is also a struggle for meaning."

"Our personalities are the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves."

"Your theory of life shapes your life."

"We are all works in progress, constantly revising ourselves."

"We are bound by our interpretations, not our realities."

"We discover ourselves through the process of constructing meaning."

"What we think determines what we feel, and what we feel determines what we do."

"What we tell ourselves about our experiences shapes the meaning those experiences have."

"The stories we tell ourselves about who we are become self-fulfilling prophecies."

"Each moment is an opportunity to choose a different thought and therefore a different life."

"Your past does not define you; your choices moving forward do."

"What we believe about ourselves becomes the script we live out in our lives."

"What we consistently think about becomes our reality, for better or worse."