Life Quotes Quote by Roy T. Bennett — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“It is better to find your courage to make changes when you can choose to rather than being forced to. If you do not make change, change will make you.”

“We don’t truly appreciate what we have until it’s gone… We don’t really appreciate something until we have experienced some events; we don't really appreciate our parents until we ourselves have become parents. Be grateful for what you have now, and nothing should be taken for granted.”

“Do not be complacent about your achievements and not to strive for continual improvement when you get to the top. As soon as you let success go to your head, you sink into following familiar patterns and play it safe. In other words, you risk losing your edge.”

“You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.”

“Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most.”

“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”

““I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.”

“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”

“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.”

“We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.”

“To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?”

“Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.”