life
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘life’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” -Meister Eckhart
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“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.” -Ashley Smith
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“In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.” -Margaret J. Wheatley
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“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” -Richard Bach
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“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” -Golda Meir
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“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” -Albert Ellis
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“Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.” -Buddha
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“There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” -Rita Rudner
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“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.” -Og Mandino
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“Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.” -Isaac Watts
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“Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.” -Albert Einstein
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“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” -Melody Beattie
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“Bad things do happen how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.” -Walter Anderson
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“When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.” -Tecumseh
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“You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.” -Keith Sweat
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“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.” -Carl Jung
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“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.” -Anatole France
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“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” -Earl Nightingale
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“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” -Ernest Holmes
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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” -Dr. Seuss
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“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!” -Bob Marley
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“Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.” -Karen Horney
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“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.” -Brendan Gill
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“The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.” -William Lyon Phelps
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“Life has a higher end, than to be amused.” -William Ellery Channing
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“The person lives twice who lives the first life well.” -Robert Herrick
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“Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.” -Karl A. Menninger
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“Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise.” -George Gershwin
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“I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.” -Judy Collins
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“I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.” -Ron White
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“Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.” -Samuel Butler
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“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.” -John Henry Newman
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“Our entire life – consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.” -Jean Anouilh
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“To know nothing is the happiest life.” -Desiderius Erasmus
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“Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.” -William Cowper
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“You don’t have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life’s about change.” -John Cleese
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“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.” -Horace Walpole
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“Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.” -Charles Lindbergh
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“The less routine the more life.” -Amos Bronson Alcott
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“Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.” -Abraham Cahan
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“Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.” -Rebecca West
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“The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.” -Henry Adams
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“Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.” -Jorge Luis Borges
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“Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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“Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.” -O. Henry
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“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.” -William Feather
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“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.” -Ben Stein
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“I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.” -Laurence Sterne
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“Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.” -Woody Allen
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“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” -Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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“Life is like a trumpet – if you don’t put anything into it, you don’t get anything out of it.” -William Christopher Handy
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“I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.” -Ursula Andress
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“My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.” -Hugh Leonard
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“Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.” -Truman Capote
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“To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.” -Jerry Seinfeld
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“I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.” -B. F. Skinner
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“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.” -William James
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“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.” -E. M. Forster
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“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Life is never easy for those who dream.” -Robert James Waller
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“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.” -Alfred Adler
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“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.” -William Osler
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“For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.” -Mignon McLaughlin
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“If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.” -William J. Clinton
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“Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.” -Fran Lebowitz
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“Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” -Rose Kennedy
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“We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.” -Lauryn Hill
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“Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.” -Samuel Smiles
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“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.” -William Hazlitt
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“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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“Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.” -Corita Kent
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“Life is half spent before we know what it is.” -George Herbert
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“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.” -Arthur Miller
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“Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.” -Isaac Bashevis Singer
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“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.” -Charlotte Bronte
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“While we are postponing, life speeds by.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“May you live all the days of your life.” -Jonathan Swift
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“A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.” -Jean Ingelow
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“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.” -Seneca
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“Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.” -Mel Brooks
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“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.” -Vernon Howard
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“Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.” -Robert E. Lee
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“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
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“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” -Scott Hamilton
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“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.” -Erich Fromm
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“I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it.” -Charles M. Schulz
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“Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.” -Jose Ortega y Gasset
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“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” -Jackie Robinson
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“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” -Arthur Rubinstein
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“It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.” -Philip Green
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“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” -William Morris
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“I love life because what more is there?” -Anthony Hopkins
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“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.” -Josh Billings
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“I do not regret one moment of my life.” -Lillie Langtry
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“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” -Havelock Ellis
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“We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.” -Max de Pree
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“Don’t go through life, grow through life.” -Eric Butterworth
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“Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.” -Irving Berlin
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“Don’t let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.” -Richard L. Evans
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“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” -Charles Darwin
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“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.” -Cary Grant
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“I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.” -Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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“Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.” -Anton Chekhov
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“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” -E. B. White
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“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” -William Wallace
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“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.” -James Allen
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“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life define yourself.” -Harvey Fierstein
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“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.” -John Burroughs
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“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.” -Sholom Aleichem
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