The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our
existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life
that wills to live. ... The essence of the humane spirit is:
Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest
destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the
development of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and
instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules,
for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
- Paracelsus
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to
you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what
happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
- John Homer Miller
Life's meaning can't be known by customary thought patterns,
but by experience.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes
us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although
the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming
of it.
- Helen Keller
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in
their significance to ourselves they find their own order
... the continuous thread of revelation.
- Eudora Welty
Each man is questioned by life and he can only answer to life
By answering for his own life; to life he can only respond
by Being responsible.
- Dr. Viktor E. Frankl
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because
we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but
there is also always some reason in madness.
- Nietzsche
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to
people or things.
- Albert Einstein
The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.
- Natalie Kocsis
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed
affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for
a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly
discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's
expense but his own.
- Herman Melville
Angels help light the way down Life's winding road.
- Inspirational Greeting
At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over
a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in
time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.
- Aldous Huxley
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
- Jane Austen
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around every
once in a while, you might miss it.
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
- Henry Rollins
Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.
- John Derek
Life is short but hard, like a body-building elf.
- The Bloodhound Gang
All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my
life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend,
and a person is a blend of all the influences that have
touched their lives.
- General Colin Powell
All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life,
there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots
don't show the million decisions that led to that moment.
- Richard Bach
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware,
joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
- Henry Miller
Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, 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
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner:
that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.
- Adam Lindsay Gordon
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting
for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that
he always has good company.
- Charles Evans Hughes
Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever
misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has
not gone. It's inside you - if you listen to it, you can play it.
- Nido Qubein
Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon
of life; worse still, we take this step with the false
presupposition that our truths and ideals will serve us as
hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according
to the programme of life's morning - for what was great in
the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning
was true will at evening have become a lie.
- Carl Jung
Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through
the rock of inertia.
- Alexis Carrel
Life's short. If you don't look around once in a while you might
miss it.
- Anonymous
Live truth instead of professing it.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
- Anonymous
Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some
weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture
beautiful and unique.
- Anonymous
Life is wasted on the living.
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Life. Loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it.
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Sports is the toy department of human life.
- Howard Cosell
Life is like a ten speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles Schultz
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go,
we take a little of each other everywhere.
- Tim McGraw
To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else.
- Emily Dickinson
God created you to do him some particular service. He has given
some work to you that he has not given to another. You have
your mission. You shall do good.
- John Cardinal Newman
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in
life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the
graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the
door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff
around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured
by these.
- Susan B. Anthony
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things:
to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing
your life depends on it; and when the time comes, to let go.
- Mary Oliver
I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on
with it.
- Sir Laurence Olivier
As a teenager you are in the last stage of life when you
will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
- Fran Lebowitz
Every day is an opportunity to make your life the way you want
it to be. Anything is possible when you work toward it, one
day at a time. Skip a day, and you lose momentum. Try to do
it all at once, and you burn out. Steadily, consistently
work, making every day count, and you will reach your goals.
Today is a chance to grow - to do a little bit more than
you did yesterday, a little bit better, a little bit more
effectively. Anyone can do a little more, learn a little
more, and grow a little more each day. Soon, with consistent
effort, those "little bits" add up to major accomplishments.
Is there something you want to change? Today is the day to
start changing it. Is there a new customer you want to land?
Today is the day to start making it happen. Do you need to
lose weight? Today is the day to start doing it. Not next
Monday or next month - today. You deserve to reach your
goals as soon as possible. Control today and you control
your life.
- Ralph Marston
Every time you wake up ask yourself What good things am I going
to do today? Remember that when the sun goes down at sunset
it will take a part of your life with it.
- Native American Proverb
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing
that life is made up of little things.
- Frank A. Clark
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the
things you didn't do than the ones you did. So throw off
the bow lines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the
trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Live.
- Mark Twain
Life is like a baseball game. When you think a fastball
is coming, You gotta be ready to hit the curve.
- Jaja Q
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes
miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been
magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you
will have made a difference.
- Mark Victor Hansen
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the
same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller,
Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci,
Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
- H. Jackson Brown
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief
requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley
Life is rough enough, So be kind to yourself.
- Karen S.Magee
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the
life you've imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau
So many faces in and out of my life
Some will last, some will just be now and then.
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes,
I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again.
- Billy Joel "Say Goodbye to Hollywood"
If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams,
And endeavors to lead a life which they have imagined, They
will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love
and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
- Henry Van Dyke
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable
but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw
Don`t go through life, grow through life.
- Eric Butterworth
All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and
obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it
when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best
thing in the world for you.
- Walt Disney
The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely
on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and
resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply
their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.
- Dr. William Menninger
The best things in life aren't things.
- Art Buchwald
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be
kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
- Henry James
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those
you hold well.
- Josh Billings
It is not your standard of living, but the standard in which
you live by, that defines your success.
- Darryl E. Ramey
Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us
bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the
world was built to develop character, and we must learn
that the setbacks and griefs which we endure, help us in
our marching onward.
- Henry Ford
Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it
will be spent.
- Carl Sandburg
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look
back and realize they were the big things.
- Antonio Smith
People will forget what you said. People will forget what
you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Unknown
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder
where you are when you don't come home at night.
- Margaret Mead
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
We need 4 hugs a day for survival.
We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance.
We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
- Virginia Satir
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the
little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself
in the sunset.
-Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator, 1890
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try
to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of
what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually
works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are,
then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
- Margaret Young
The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.
- Richard Leider
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing
is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the
paint on it you can.
- Danny Kaye
Never forget only dead fish swim with the stream.
- Unknown
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning,
and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing
right?
- Charles M. Schulz
The only thing that makes life possible is
permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not
knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. LeGuin
One of the most tragic things I know about
human nature is that all of us tend to put
off living. We are all dreaming of some
magical rose garden over the horizon,
instead of enjoying the roses that are
blooming outside our windows today.
- Dale Carnegie
Life is like an onion: You peel it off one
layer at a time and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
Life is like a Merry-go-round. We can elect
to go either fast or slow, but hang on tight
because people do fall off, some violently,
some gently.
- Richard S. Drapo
Life is for laughing, loving and living.
- Ed Foreman
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.
- Mother Teresa
Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never
live long enough to make them all yourself.
- John Luther
Be wise in the use of time. The question in life
is not how much time do we have? The question is
what shall we do with it.
- Anna Robertson Brown
A Native American grandfather was talking to
his grandson about how he felt. He said, I feel
as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart.
One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The
other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The
grandson asked him, 'which wolf will win the fight
in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The
one I feed.'
– Unknown
I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in
this world to live up to your expectations And you
are not in this world to live up to mine. You are
you and I am I And if by chance we find each
other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.
- Frederick Solomon Perls
In the final analysis, we count for something
only because of the essential we embody, and if
we do not embody that, life is wasted.
- Carl Gustav Jung
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It
doesn't so much matter what you do in particular,
so long as you have your life. If you haven't
had that, what have you had?
- Henry James
Although human life is priceless, we always act as
if something had an even greater price than life...
but what is that something?
- Saint Exuprey
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of
the greatest truths. It is a great truth because
when we truly see this truth we transcend it.
Once we truly know that life is difficult, once
we truly understand and accept it, then life is
no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted,
the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
- M. Scott Peck
If you take too long in deciding what to do with
your life, you'll find you've done it.
- Pam Shaw
Anger and rage only detour you from your
final objectives. The future holds nothing
but opportunity, and good things happen to
good people. I promise.
- Matt Hardy, WWE Wrestler
The story of life is quicker then the blink of
an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
- Jimmy Hendrix
Life is the sum of all your choices.
- Albert
It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or
your college degree. It's what you do with
your life that counts.
- Millard Fuller
Life does not have to be perfect to be
wonderful.
- Annette Funicello
I've learned.... that the best classroom in the
world is at the feet of an elderly person.
- Andy Rooney
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass
of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
- Jean Paul
Know you what it is to be a child? . It is to
believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to
believe in belief; it is to be so little that
the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it
is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into
horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing
into everything, for each child has its
fairy godmother in its own soul.
- Francis Thomas
Life is full of regrets dont let me be one of
yours.
- Unknown
There are moments in your life when you miss
someONE so much you want to pick them from your
dreams and hug them.
- Unknown
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely
or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they
can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and
God. Because only then does one feel that all is
as it should be.
- Anne Frank
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping
stones out of stumbling blocks.
- Jack Penn
One of the secrets of life is to keep our
intellectual curiosity acute.
- William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943)
Higher beings from outer space may not want to tell
us the secrets of life, because we're not ready.
But maybe they'll change their tune after a little torture.
- Jack Handey
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard,
until nightfall. Anyone can do his work,
however hard, for one day. Anyone can live
sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till
the sun goes down. And this is all life
really means.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing
it wrong.
- James Leo Herlihy
Each experience through which we pass
operates ultimately for our good. This is
a correct attitude to adopt and we must be
able to see it in that light.
- Raymond Holliwell
Botanists say that trees need the powerful March
winds to flex their trunks and main branches, so
the sap is drawn up to nourish the budding
leaves. Perhaps we need the gales of life in
the same way, though we dislike enduring them.
- Jane Truax
Put a smile on your face
Make the world a better place.
- Vitamin C, Smile
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary
ingredient on 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 as life's realities.
- Dr. Suess
It is possible to own too much,
a man with one watch knows what time
it is, a man with two watches is never
quite sure.
- Lee Segall
No act of kindness, however small, is wasted.
- Aesop
Life is never easy for those who dream.
- Robert James Waller
In three words I can sum up everything I've
learned about life: it goes on.
- Robert Frost
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Don't take life seriously because you can't come
out of it alive.
- Warren Miller
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Count the garden by the flowers, never by the
leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles
and not the tears that roll.
- Unknown
Look at each day as a chance to invest life into
life. A chance to share your experience and
deposit it into someone else's conscience. Each
day is a chance to work miracles in the lives
of others.
- Jim Rohn
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