Quotes Pt 7

I am back with another installment of the quote series. I very much enjoy writing these. I hope you like these quotes-

1. “We are our choices”- JP Sartre

- We do not realize how much the choices we make affect our world

- It deeply affects the people around us and sometimes, it even affects the world

- But remember, you get to choose who you want to be and no one else can do that for you

2. “There’s no “right time” there is just time and what you chose to do with it.”

- I think we use the “right time” as an excuse to delay the things that we are supposed to do

- I personally don’t think that there will ever be a right time to do something, it gets done when you decide to get around to it

- I think what we should focus on is how to stop procrastinating rather than sit around and find the right time for something

3. “Don’t let bad days make you think you have a bad life.”

- Sometimes when the day does not go in our favor and that makes us think that maybe that’s what it is going to be like for the rest of our life

- We need to remember that just because we have had a bad couple of hours, it really does not mean our life will be like this

- Not every day can be great and we have to accept that

4. “If you focus on the hurt, you will continue to suffer and if you focus on the lesson you will continue to grow.”

- Where you focus your energy is very important. If you allow yourself to continuously be crushed under the weight of what hurt you, there will come a point where you may be stuck there forever

- If you focus on the things you learned from the experience and how you can improve, you continue your process of growth

- You have to reach a stage in your life where you learn to accept things and move on

5. “Destroy the idea that you have to be good at artistic things to enjoy them, that every hobby has to become something you are good at, you can monetize it. Life is meant to be enjoyed not monetized. You’re not a product.”

- I think this is true to a certain extent. In the sense that, you don’t need to compare yourself to someone else

- Some people want to take their hobby to the next level and some people prefer to keep it as a hobby

- Not everything needs to be monetized, sometimes you can just enjoy things for fun without comparing yourself to how other people have pursued the same hobby as you. You can enjoy things without being the best at them

6. “Sadly, sometimes it’s too late and that’s the thing about time. We cannot get it back.”

- Time is a very strange thing. We start off thinking we have so much time to do the things we want

- When you look back at your life, the one thing you feel you didn’t have is time

- If we keep on waiting around and thinking we have enough time, we will never get around to doing it. Stop waiting and start working toward the life you want to live

7. “Now close your eyes and please understand that you are still young and the universe is endless and somehow everything will be okay.”

- Sometimes we need to sit back and breathe, we are so caught up working and trying to fix everything

- If it was meant to be it will be. Sometimes things have a way of working out on their own. You cannot constantly control everything around you

- It will all work out in the end

8. “What’s meant for you will always be yours.”

- If it is meant to be for you, it will always find its way around to you

- It can come to you later in life, it could come to you now. Everything that is meant for you will always be there

9. “Even when we can’t control the situation around us we can control where we are directing our attention.”

- Sometimes if it is out of your control, it deserves peace from your mind too

- We need to spend our time staying positive and try to improve the situations in our control

- If we focus our attention in the right places, we are able to steer, the situations we can control, in the right direction

10. “Sometimes the things that we love most, are the things we are best without.”

- Sometimes what’s best for us, is what is holding us back

- We need to know the difference between holding onto something because it makes us happy and holding onto something because it’s the only thing making us happy

- Sometimes letting go is better than holding on

11. “We are only haunted by the things we refuse to accept.”

- If you sit back and think about things, you realize that nothing really left you

- Something will stay around with us forever until we accept it and give it freedom from our mind

- The unsaid things are the ones that tend to haunt us the most

12. “What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t happened yet.”

- This is my favourite quote to this date. We are so wrapped up in all the bad things that happened and how they will affect our life

- Think about how there are so many days, that you haven’t lived yet, that have the potential to be some of the best days

- If you ever feel down and trapped, remember that there are many days left to come that might become your best yet

13. “Normality is a paved road. It's comfortable to walk but no flowers grow on it.”- Vincent Van Gogh

- It is like a home you have known forever and grown to love but there isn’t much life in that home, it is very basic

- Same for normality, it keeps you in your comfort zone. Everything around you is known and comfortable but there is nothing out of the extraordinary, no beauty

- Everything is black and white until you find out the true beauty of colour

14. “You are allowed to make a big deal out of things that are important to you.”

- It matters if it is important to you and do not let anyone tell you otherwise

- It can be the smallest thing that is bothering you and if it is important to you then you can react to it in any way that you feel

15. “It’s not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do or fail to do.” - Jane Austen

- This is true because we can think a certain way and act another way and, in the end, how you acted will be remembered

- Our actions make us who are

- We could think a certain way about someone but behave with them in a different manner but that person will perceive you from your actions not from your thoughts

16. “You don’t have to be the best. Just keep doing your best.”

- Perhaps if you do your best, one day you will be the best

- You cannot be the best at everything, everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses

- Don’t put too much pressure on yourself and give it you're all. What is meant to happen will happen

17. “People only understand from their level of perception.”

- People will judge you based on what they think of you

- They will not do much to change that image of you and they will only try to understand how much their perceptions wants them to

- You do not need to over-explain yourself. Let them think what they want to

18. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”- Winston Churchill

- Success is a fickle thing, it does not last for very long

- Failure is not final either because you have multiple opportunities to do it all again

- Trying again and again which counts in the end

19. “If you get tired, learn to rest not quit.”- Banksy

- Resting and quitting are two entirely different things

- If you are tired, take a break but don’t give up entirely

- Sometimes we need to take a break to remember why we love something so much and that is okay

20. “Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.”- Plato

- Sometimes we are so caught up in our dreams and cannot differentiate between the two

- Like Dumbledore said – “It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live”

- If we change our mindset, we change our reality. It all starts with the power of your mind

I hope you liked this blog, I really enjoyed this particular edition of the quotes series. Definitely will continue to write these!

Thanks for reading,

Xx Mahika

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