Nesta Jojoe Erskine Biography & Quotes

“I learned that some fears are legitimate. We are scared when we can’t do something. Courage shouldn’t push us to do what we are not skilled at. That’s the gift of fear. It saves us from dying.”

Courage Dying Scared Fears Skilled Gift Of Fear

Book:Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

“Yours might not be a quest for heroism. Yours might be to win a personal victory over a habit. Yours might be a personal battle to gain freedom from fears. A simple win is right”

Freedom Habit Victory Heroism Win Fears Personal Battle

Book:Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

“Our goal is not to strive to become fearless! Our goal is to turn our fears into a flower. A flower that we love and want to smell every now and then. Our ultimate goal is to find what it is that we fear, tame it and make it work for our good.”

Love Goal Work Flower Good Fearless Fears

Book:Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

“The world is a noisy place. Everybody wants to say something. We are forever surrounded by people’s opinions on how to make things work. Everyone wants to give us a piece of themselves through speeches and actions. Everything around us wants our attention. It never stops. Sometimes we get lost in the maze of all the noise we are surrounded by. We forget one thing: Silence! You can only learn when you are silent.”

Silence Learn Noisy People S Opinions

Book:Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

“To know happiness, is to surrender without losing hope. Whatever you are going through is a phase. It’s a fact of life. It comes with the package. The package that made you king. The package that brought you ceaseless joy.”

Happiness Joy Surrender Facts Of Life Losing Hope

Book:Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

“Learn to love yourself first. You can’t expect people to love you when the value you place on yourself is half inch tall. To be loved or not is a power you have in your hand. It is when you give that power to people who don’t matter that you begin to suffer.”

Power Self Esteem Self Love Value To Be Loved

Book:Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

“Don’t present yourself to people as a blank sheet; they will paint you with their preferred colors, then your life will be in problem. Choose your own colors and paint it the way you want the world to see you. Make it a little brighter so you stand out.”

People Self Problem Choose Colors Present Yourself

Book:Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

“Heroes rise and fall; fact of life. You’ll win some and lose some; fact of life. Something will have to kill you eventually; that’s a fact of life. Have you accepted your mishap as a fact of life?”

Life Heroes Win Facts Of Life Lose Rise And Fall

Book:Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

“Character is the key to becoming what you were meant to be. Without it, good books never get published, beautiful symphonies are never performed. Without character, we never accomplish anything.”

Character Key Symphonies

Book:Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

“We all clean a lot of things as we go through life. We clean our clothes and wear them over our unclean hearts. We wash our hands and leave our souls untouched. We pour water on our heads and as it drips down to our feet, it cleans the dirt off our skin. But we leave our thoughts and words out of this cleanliness.”

Life Thoughts Souls Hearts Cleanliness Unforgettable Gift Unclean Heart

Book:Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

“If Ludwig Van Beethoven could create the longest symphony without hearing a tune of it, then something can come from nothingness. When we lose our ears, we don’t have to die with all the symphonies left in us. There is a heart that can still play us a beautiful rhythm. Every heartbeat is a beginning of a new symphony.”

Rhythm Die Symphony Heartbeat Tune Nothingness Of Being Ludwig Van Beethoven

Author:Nesta Jojoe Erskine

“The story of Sisyphus is no different from what we have to go through every day of our lives. We wake up, toil during the day, come home eventide and rest only to begin toiling again the next day. The only difference is that we are mere mortals and one day, we will die. Death excuses us from our daily toils unlike Sisyphus who has to toil till eternity.”

Death Eternity Mortals Die Sisyphus Toiling Days Of Our Lives

Book:Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

“You don’t get lucky while sitting in the sofa with arms crossed doing nothing. You can be lucky only when you are prepared.”

Lucky Luck Prepared Laziness Doing Nothing Arms Crossed

Book:Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

“We might not be the ones to change the world. We might not belong to the few that “put a ding in the universe.” We might not be something the whole world would celebrate. But...In the little corners that we live; in the lives that we’ve played a part in, we should be nothing but unforgettable.”

Unforgettable Celebrate Life Life Well Lived Amazing Life Leaving A Legacy Footprints In Life Living A Life That Matters Living A Memorable Life Touching A Heart

Book:Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

“The master takes his good enough work to excellence by considering every detail and straightening all that is crooked. Excellence happens when every detail is taken care of.”

Excellence Details Good Work Master Apprentice

Book:Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

“We all can’t paint like Van Gogh. We might not be the ones who found cure for cancer or invented flying shoes but it doesn’t mean we can’t own a spot in the sands of time.”

Cancer Living Life To The Fullest Unforgettable Leaving A Legacy Sands Of Time Inventions Quotes Unforgettable Gift Leaving Footprints Life That Matters Memorable Life

Book:Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

“Being remembered for something doesn’t always require a huge sacrifice. It doesn’t need a bringing- the-sea-to-the-desert kind of effort. It’s about the little things; finding and excelling at your purpose and welcoming the world into the art you create out of your purpose.”

Living Life To The Fullest Unforgettable Leaving A Legacy Sands Of Time Finding Meaning Unforgettable Gift Leaving Footprints Life That Matters Memorable Life

Book:Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

“Life can take you anywhere; be weightless.”

Life Weightless

Book:Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

“So today, learn to live consciously. Listen to the rhythm of your heartbeat and how the air feels on your skin and watch life as it happens around you. Worries go away when you live in the NOW.”

Life Live In The Moment Heartbeat Worries Live Consciously

Book:Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

“People make mistakes. When you judge them, you measure their weakness against your own strength. That’s not a fair measure. They have their strength, too. Their strength might be the weakest point in your life.”

Life Strength Weakness Mistakes Judging Others

Book:Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

“Growth doesn’t happen because we’ve accumulated some number of years. Growth happens when we learn. We mature when we are able to triumph over yesterday’s mistakes. Whatever success we have today is because we dared to fail and learned from it.”

Years Age Success Growth Mistakes Mature Learn Fail

Book:Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

“Your happiness shouldn’t come with victims. It’s possible to split the light. Your candle can light mine. What is happiness if it doesn’t make another smile?”

Light Happiness Smile Candle Victims

Book:Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

Nesta Jojoe Erskine Biography

Related Quotes