Top 100 Life Quotes

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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

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Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.

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Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.

4

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.5

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

6

A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

7

Throughout my professional life, I have looked upon the Corps as a most valuable part of our naval organization, and this opinion has only been the more confirmed by every year's additional experience in active service.

8

My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

9

The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world, but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.

10

You get a little stir crazy during the week.

11

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

12

I'm too old to do things by half

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior ...13

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

Everything is clearer when you're in love.15

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

16

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

18

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

19

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

20

Education was not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It was an initiation into the life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

21

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

22

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

23

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

24

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

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Give and Take... For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.

26

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.

27

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.

28

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

29

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

30

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

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And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that ...32

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.

33

I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

34

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

35

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

36

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

37

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.

38

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

39

It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends.

40

Faith is all that dreamers need to see into the future.

41

I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes only response to pain.

42

Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'

43

We must carry Jesus in our hearts to wherever He wants to go, and there are many places to which He may never go unless we take Him to them. None of us knows when the loveliest hour of our life is striking. It may be when we take Christ for the first time to that grey office in the city where we work, to the wretched lodging of that poor man who is an outcast, to the nursery of that pampered child, to that battleship, airfield, or camp

44

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, ...45

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

46

Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.

47

The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.

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Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbor, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

49

They know how to think. From the Arabs I have learned one thing: if you are led by Authority, that means you are led by a halter.

50

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

51

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin

52

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.

53

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

54

What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of view? It's using up air; it's using up energy. It's really not doing anything except being ornamental. And yet here's this whole vegetable world, cactus plants, trees, roses, tulips, and edible vegetables, like cabbages, celery, lettuce - they're all doing this dance.

55

To love light, you have to love dark. I'm not trying to be profound, I know you'll understand. I don't mean that you have to hate to love, or that you have to die to live. I mean that sometimes, you turn out the lights just to turn them back on.

56

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

57

I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.

58

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

59

This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all. On a still night, when the campfire is low and the Pleiades have climbed over rimrocks, sit quietly and listen, and think hard of everything you have seen and tried to understand. Then you may hear it - a vast pulsing harmony - its score inscribed on a thousand hills, its notes the lives and deaths of plants and animals, its rhythms spanning the seconds and the centuries.

60

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

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God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.

62

Love is hurt with jar and fret; Love is made a vague regret.

63

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

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Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?

65

When you risk nothing, you risk never truly living!

66

To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.

67

Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.

68

Yoga is bringing suppleness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.

69

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

70

True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would have otherwise never existed.

71

Life is like a chariot-wheel that ever rolls along.

72

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.

73

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.

74

Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.

75

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

76

One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.

77

I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

78

I think as a human being, as a mother, as someone who works internationally, I needed desperately to know a man like Louis Zamperini in my life, to know that there is hope.

79

And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.

80

When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

81

I hadn't even dreamed of getting another Academy Award, and there I was unhappy in my private life and miserable, I remember Odets drove me three times around the Biltmore, where the Oscars were given out, because I was so full of tears.

82

Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.

83

We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?

84

Perhaps the most important thing we can ever do in our lives is find a way to keep the wild-both the wild inside and the wild outside us-and tap into it.

85

I would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib with its bars or perhaps with your first breath when the planets drill your future into you.

86

There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.

87

In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them spoken, but we grow into them by experience and recognize them through understanding. Understanding is a great experience in itself, but it does not come through instruction.

88

Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.

89

I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

90

When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

91

I was looking for the key for years But the door was always open

92

There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."

93

The actuality of thought is life.

94

Always have old memories, and young hopes.

95

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

96

I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the ‘dark ages’!

97

Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

98

They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. In the state of Massachusetts, this is the same number as that used for Social Security, unless you object to such use. In THAT case, you are ASSIGNED a number and you reside forever more on the list of "weird people who don't give out their Social Security Number in Massachusetts."

99

The Christian life is a life that consists of following Jesus.

100

There are no footprints on the sea and no road-signs, not a single guard-stone or post, and no bends, only paths of light and dark from which to choose, the choice is always a difficult navigation and the storm's wingspan immeasurable as the depths and the horizon, but the sea holds you in its mighty hand your life is a sea-blue tale of love and death.

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