Top 100 Life Quotes

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such

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Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get.

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You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

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A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.

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Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

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Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

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We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.

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The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

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We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

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All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

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I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

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Our job is to get out of the way of ourselves and let the art flow through us. We need to stop trying, stop doing, start allowing. We have no clue what we can be when you stop forcing and start being.

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Gracias, danke, merci - whatever language is spoken, "thank you" frequently expressed will cheer your spirit, broaden your friendships, and lift your lives to a higher pathway as you journey toward perfection. There is a simplicity - even a sincerity - when "thank you" is spoken.

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Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

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Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.

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Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

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A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!

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You've got this amazing creature- yourself- that can breathe, dance, and cry. And you have a certain amount of moments (maybe a few million moments-but moments they are) and you have this chance to do absolutely anything- to reach out to another vulnerable & true. To dance on the roof of euphoria and pray beside the ocean to let go. We have the chance every moment to Be Alive and give to this world who needs each one of us so badly.

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

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I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

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You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.26

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

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Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

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Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

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If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

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I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

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Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.

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I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don't blame yoga or the whole community of yogis

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Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.

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Life is an incurable disease.

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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.

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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

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Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of fruit is much easier. It's for the same reason why we don't like going to the doctor. The diagnosis and x-rays are too honest. This is what creates the perception that contemporary art is shocking or suspicious.

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Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.

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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

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Honor modesty more than your life.

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In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

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Persuasion is better than force.

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What are people searching for in life? God. In the christian scriptures, it says 'Be still and know you are God.' What is this? You are peace, compassion, truth, Love, freedom. Real love- the ability to love yourself so much that you forgive everything and you are at peace with yourself like a mother loves a child, not trying to be someone.

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Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

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That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is going to cave in.

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Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?

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From a boy I gloated on existence. Earth to me Seemed all-sufficient and my sojourn there One trembling opportunity for joy.

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The destination of life is this eternal moment.

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I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

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There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

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There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

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Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the indefinite, toward the mystic dream of Love, between the fire which devours itself and the silence of the Cold.

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You will never have to talk religion to anyone; men will see it talking in your life! You will radiate a positive influence at all times, which will in turn bring you happiness and health in good measure.

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The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

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Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.

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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

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Each person has his special moment of life when he unfolded himself to the fullest, felt to the deepest, and expressed himself to the utmost, to himself and to others.

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Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

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We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.

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Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

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In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might

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I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.

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. . . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheeps or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Not only for themselves but for those who call them friend? For so this whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.

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The old order changeth yielding place to new And God fulfills himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me I have lived my life and that which I have done May he within himself make pure but thou If thou shouldst never see my face again Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

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He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear.

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ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.

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DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.

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Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

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Destiny changes, fate changes, just believe in your inner self, your dreams and your strength

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The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.

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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

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I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

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Its taken 14 billion years for matter to gain the capacity to become conscious of itself. If this is true, it wouldn't make any sense that the whole point of enlightenment would be to escape from the whole process at the very instant that the universe is beginning to awaken to itself.

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Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.

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It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

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I love directing, It means so much to me to direct stories about subject matter that I care deeply about. I can act in many things, and you can try to experience different characters, but to direct is years of your life and you have to really love it and believe in it.

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Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” Then repeat to yourself the most comforting of all words , “This too shall pass.”

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We are always getting ready to live, and never having time enough to live.

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Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.

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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

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The more time we spend with Mother nature the more we fall in love with her.

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No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

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The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

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Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.

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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

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You can find tea in a tea cup.. but cannot find world in a world cup.

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It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.

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Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

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