Life quotes
42 quotes. Authors include A. A. Milne, A. Powell Davies, Abraham Lincoln, Alan Watts, Albert Camus, Albert Einstein, Alfred Adler, Alfred Korzybski, Amelia Earhart, Barbara De Angelis, Bob Newhart, Bruce Lee, Carl Jung, Christopher Morley, Confucius, Corita Kent, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jim Rohn, Jimmy Dean, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kahlil Gibran, Laozi, Louise Hay, Margaret Cousins, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Bach, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Buddha, Thích Nhất Hạnh, William C. Menninger.
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“Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.”
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“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
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“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”
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“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.”
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“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
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“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”
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“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
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“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”
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“Life is just a chance to grow a soul.”
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“Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.”
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“This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.”
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“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”
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“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
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“There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
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“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”
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“Respect should be earned by actions, and not acquired by years.”
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“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
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“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.”
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“If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.”
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“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
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“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”
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“Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.”
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“Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.”
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“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”
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“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be”
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“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”
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“There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
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“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
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“By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better and we can prepare for a better future.”
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“If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.”
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“The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.”
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“Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.”
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“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
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“As you think, so shall you become.”
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“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”
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“All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!”
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“The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.”
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“Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.”
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“We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.”
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“The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.”