Life Quotes Quote by Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Start shaping your own day. Start walking your own walk. This journey is yours, take charge of it. Stop giving other people the power to shape your life.”

“The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts; it gives you what you demand with your actions. In essence, you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE.”

“If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.”

“You didn't just cheat on me; you cheated on us. You didn't just break my heart; you broke our future.”

“Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced.”

“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.”

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”

“But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.”

“E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.”

“Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.”

“You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself”