Top 100 Life Quotes

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Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

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I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.

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The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

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If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.

5

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

6

There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.

7

Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude for life.

8

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

9

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

10

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

11

Never lose a holy curiosity.

12

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

13

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

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If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

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The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.

16

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

17

When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

18

Awake, my soul, and with the sun thy daily course of duty run. Cast off dull sloth, and joyful rise to pay thy morning sacrifice. All praise to thee, who safe hast kept and hast refreshed me while I slept! Grant, Lord, when I from death shall wake, I may of endless life partake. All praise to thee, my God, this night for all the blessings of the light. Keep me, oh keep me, King of Kings, beneath Thine own almighty wings. Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow. Praise Him, all creatures here below. Praise Him above, ye heavenly host. Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

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Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?

20

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

21

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

22

I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach.

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Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

24

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

25

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

26

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

27

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?

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In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.

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I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.

30

Never ruin an appology with an excuse.

31

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

32

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing; and that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.

33

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

34

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

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To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.

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The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

39

Your mind, emotions and body are instruments and the way you align and tune them determines how well you play life.

40

Essentially, yoga means dissolving your identity.

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Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.

42

Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.

43

We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.

44

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

45

I would live the same life over if I had to live again, And the chances are I go where most men go.

46

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

47

Little friends may prove great friends.

48

Keep your place in life and your place will keep you

49

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

50

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

51

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

52

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

53

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.

54

I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.

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Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

56

Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.

57

Love ... is a living reality.

58

This long disease, my life.

59

Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.

60

My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.

61

And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.

62

Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.

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Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.

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A life that moves to gracious ends Thro' troops of unrecording friends, A deedful life, a silent voice.

65

Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran, Pleasure with pain for leaven, Summer with flowers that fell, Remembrance fallen from heaven, And Madness risen from hell, Strength without hands to smite, Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death.

66

The darkest day in life is the one in which we expect something for nothing.

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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

68

INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even been known to wear a moustache.

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I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now.

70

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

71

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

72

One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.

73

Live as if you were eternal.

74

When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.

75

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

76

You think money can solve any problem, but all it s good for is buying the things it can, and leaving you free to pursue the things it can't.

77

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.”

78

Every time I feel depressed or frustrated, I just have to drive on the highway during rush hours, then I feel very grateful I don't have to do this everyday.

79

Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?

80

When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our lives.

81

We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom.

82

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

83

For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . . until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story.

84

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

85

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

86

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.

87

You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

88

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."

89

What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

90

Always have old memories, and young hopes.

91

The only real problem in life is what to do next.

92

The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.

93

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

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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.

95

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

96

The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live? There are different modes of survival. But all are not equally honorable.

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It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voice could be that difference.

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In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).

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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

100

Love is a power, a mighty principle that exists in its own right independent of any individual. Man changes, but the principle of love does not and cannot. Love does not leave men and women. Men and women leave love.

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