James Patterson Quotes

We shall come to honor all of Life sooner or later. Our choices are when that shall happen, and the quality of experience that we shall have as we learn.

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.

The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis, but first of all by living. For until we have begun to live our prudence has no material to work on. And until we have begun to fail we have no way of working out our success.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.

The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor.

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

I now believe that bêtes noires usually attack because we're thwarting our own destinies. Calming the beast turns us toward our best lives.

Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

Life is a gift... Life is a test... Life is temporary assignment.

Start to see yourself for who you really are: a traveller, an explorer or on the path of life, confidently advancing along the path of enlightenment towards your destiny. Don't lose sight of the things that are truly vital in your life.

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

On the other side of resistance is the flow of real life.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.