Rules Of Life Quotes

“Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“I didn’t know. I feel sometimes like…there are all these rules. Just to be a person. You know? You’re supposed to carry a shoulder bag, not a backpack. You’re supposed to wear headbands, or you’re not supposed to wear headbands. It’s okay to describe yourself as likeable, but it’s not okay to describe yourself as eloquent. You can sit in the front of the school bus, but you can’t sit in the middle. You’re not supposed to be with a boy, even when he wants you to. I didn’t know that. There are so many rules, and they don’t make any sense, and I just can’t learn them all”
― Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life

“But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.”
― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes

“(Love is the puzzle that) can’t be solved. Catlike, it follows no rules but its own, and only it knows what they are. Also it can change the rules any time it wants, in any way it wants, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.”
― Chris Dee, Cat-Tales Book 5

“You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“The rule for working out prime numbers is very simple, but no one has ever worked out a simple formula for telling you whether a very big number is a prime number or what the next one will be. […] Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“The norms were created by somebody, and each of us is somebody. We can make our own normal.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life

“I kept staring at the moon. I'm not sure if its light was good or evil. I thought it might not be either. The moon just shines with the light of chaos. Mysteriously. Brightly. That must not be either good or evil. Just as the rules of this world are not all good.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, The Kingdom

“There are rules which are meant to break. There are roads not to be followed.
There are memories meant to leave.
There are so many things we should not care about.”
― Himanshu Bisht

“Wall your life, guard your heart and mind your mind! A life without a wall least blocks something! A mind without a wall accepts anything at all!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Tell yourself the truth, at least. If you don't then every single person you know is lying to you.”
― Neil Dover

“Confronting your enemy in anger feeds your ego, but diminishes your chance of success.”
― Shon Mehta, The Timingila

“Imagine you were asked in a maths paper at junior school, 'Which would you prefer, a shilling or two sixpences?' and you answered, 'Two sixpences,' because thinking of the two tiny silver coins jingling together in your pocket made you feel good and you loved those cute little sixpences. But when the test paper was returned you saw a big red cross through your answer, and that night your mother explained to you that it was a trick question, two sixpences and a shilling were worth the same amount – which you knew, but you'd still prefer two sixpences. It wasn't that you were stupid, you just saw things from a different angle. Sixpences had character, shillings didn't. And you felt richer with two sixpences because there were two coins, not just one. But despite all these explanations, you were still wrong and you kept getting tripped up by these trick questions over and over again, in exams, in relationships, friendships, jobs and interviews. In fact, these misreadings of situations happened so often that you started to view the world as a tricksy and untruthful place. Then you noticed that the people who saw the tricks behind the questions were popular and always at the top of the class. Baffled by life and its unseen rules, you began to doubt everything around you. You felt you had to approach all of life as a trick, just to get it right a few times.”
― Viv Albertine, To Throw Away Unopened

“To get anywhere in life,
there is but one rule.

Never seek external validation
for your own inner peace.”
― Azra Gregor

“If something that takes 1 day to finish is not ready in 3 days then expect it to take from 15 to 45 days to finish.”
― Ghassan Labban

“Create rules for strict living not to restrict the living”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Some rules are so nonsensical, they’re meant to be broken.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“मौसम की बदमिजाजगी के चलते अपने बंकर ख़ाली छोड़ने पर कारगिल युद्ध झेलना पड़ा था । प्रकृति का नियम है कि कोई भी जगह ज़्यादा देर ख़ाली नहीं रहती । ख़ाली स्थान भरने के लिए जल्दी ही दूसरे दबंग पहुंच जाते हैं ।”
― Vandana Yadav, कितने मोर्चे

“If people do not know the rules, they will continue making mistakes and the situation will only worsen.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Find someone who knows you are not perfect but treats you like you are.”
― Bibek Kr Sah

“Primitive societies live by the Rule of Might, and the strong prevail. Advanced societies live by the Rule of Law, and the privileged prevail. Enlightened societies live by the Rule of Love, and everyone is lifted higher.”
― Mike Dooley

“Find something to aim for in life. Do not live an empty life.”
― Pep Talk Radio

“With hope for that ultimate intimacy, here are some rules for human beings in this life:

Sexual relations outside marriage are wrong, without regard to class, gender, or other human differentiation.

Human happiness and flourishing is thoroughly compatible with sexual abstinence.

The flourishing of human beings does not lie in marriage but in being able to live with others as friends, and marriage itself should be understood, in its ultimate sense, as being oriented to friendship.”
― Victor Lee Austin, Friendship: The Heart of Being Human

“You don’t find the things you’re looking for if you don’t break some rules. You have to walk in a few dark places on your own.”
― Dan Abnett, Saturnine

“DON'T LET MONEY TO RULE YOUR WORLD;
DON'T LET MONEY TO RULE YOUR LIFE;
DON'T LET MONEY TO RULE YOUR MIND;
DON'T LET MONEY TO RULE YOUR EMOTIONS;
DON'T LET MONEY TO RULE YOUR DESTINY;
DON'T LET MONEY TO RULE YOUR YOURSELF;
MONEY AND RULES WERE MADE FOR STRICT LIVING NOT TO RESTRICT LIVING”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Today is the very busy day of the year as I am working really hard to create some rules for the new year, not for the reason that I follow, just because I love breaking rules!”
― Atlas Gondal

“Love deep, be sweet, act accordingly, stay focused on the positive, and go out of your way to be good to people. It's that simple.”
― Germany Kent

“But... I thought there were rules! said Tiffany...
"Oh? Really?" said Granny. "Did you sign anything? Did you take any kind of oath? No? Then they weren't *your* rules!”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

“But... I thought there were rules!" said Tiffany...
"Oh? Really?" said Granny. "Did you sign anything? Did you take any kind of oath? No? Then they weren't *your* rules!”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

“You become bound to the mundane through your daily rituals, habits, and rules.”
― Steven Redhead, Life’s Events In Focus