Life Lessons Quote by Kelly Cutrone — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most. I believe you can't feel real joy unless you've felt heartache. You can't have a sense of victory unless you know what it means to fail. You can't know what it's like to feel holy until you know what it's like to feel really fucking evil. And you can't be birthed again until you've died.”

“When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.”

“If you cannot see yourself fairly or accurately represented in the community where you live... and nothing there makes you feel awake or alive, I suggest you start doing some research on some other communities”

“In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself.”

“When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy Technicolor bricks. You'll probably be kicked to the ground 150 million times and told you're nuts by friends and strangers alike. As you progress you may feel lonely or terrified for your physical and emotional safety. You may overestimate your own capabilities or fail to live up to them, and you'll surely fall flat on your face once in a while.”

“I always laugh at the term 'Cinderella story', because, if you ask me, it doesn't matter what life you're living, life never has a solution. No matter how hard the struggles are that you leave behind, new struggles always take their place.”

“Life stings. It can bite and claw and kick you when you’re down. It can lift you up in celebration and clutch your heart until you think it’ll rip from your chest. It’s glorious and wonderful and oh so devastating. We sing and we laugh and we dance until we can move no more, and it’s all worth it. Every single piece. Every single part. Because life isn’t made up of the breaths we take, but the moments that take our breath away.”

“Do not just sit back and expect things to happen. Do not be passive or wait for a miracle. Do not be complacent with less. Do not be pessimistic about the process. Do not doubt yourself. Use your skills and talents. Aim high and strive to do your best. Pursue excellence and focus on becoming a success.”

“Do not waste your time on things that are futile. Focus on what is worthwhile. Invest in your development right now. Do things that are beneficial. Then, you will achieve your success in due time.”

“In the corridors of life, you will meet successful men and women. You may walk like them, talk like them, and walk with them, but if you do not work like them, you will not succeed like them.”