Top 100 Life Quotes

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We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.

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It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

3

Marriage is like mushrooms: we notice too late if they are good or bad.

4

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

5

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

6

The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change its poignancy?

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Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.

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I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.

9

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

10

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

11

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

12

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

13

In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

14

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that ...15

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.16

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

17

Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue.

18

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

19

Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.

20

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

21

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

22

Like the ocean that remains calm in its depths even when waves rage over its surface, and like the sun that continues shining on high even during storms, we can at each moment create value and develop our state of life, enjoying our existence to the fullest in times of both suffering and joy.

23

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

24

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

25

Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

26

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all ...27

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

28

I hope that my achievements in life shall be these-that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.

29

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.

30

Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.

31

Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.

32

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

33

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

34

If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.

35

We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.

36

A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another, yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life's endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates life's beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.

37

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

38

What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

39

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.

40

Vices are their own punishment

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Little friends may prove great friends.

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Persuasion is better than force.

43

The destination of life is this eternal moment.

44

It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway.

45

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

46

I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced.

47

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

48

Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.

49

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.

50

If so far we have been unable to see clearly or to reflect the eternal lineaments of truth, is it not because we too are still moving towards some end-because we are still alive?

51

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.

52

A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body.

53

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.

54

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

55

The Best Things In Life Are Free Sunshine, songs of birds, the blue heavens, sunrise, the sea air, the field full of flowers, the wonders of nature, the magenta sunset, love, joy, peace of mind, the wonders of nature, the warm rain, the dew of the roses, the love of God, etc., are here for our enjoyment.

56

Next-door a baker's apprentice with his wife, an employee in a printing-shop, she has inflammation of the ovaries. Wonder what those two get out of life? Well, first of all, they get each other, then last Sunday a vaudeville and a film, then this or that club meeting and a visit to his parents. Nothing else? Well now, don't drop dead, sir. Add to that nice weather, bad weather, country picnics, standing in front of the stove, eating breakfast and so on. And what more do you get, you, captain, general, jockey, whoever you are? Don't fool yourself.

57

For love reflects the thing beloved.

58

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.

59

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

60

I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.

61

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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CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and who followed the primitive economic maxim, "Every man his own horse."

63

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

64

To-night when the full-bellied moon swallows the stars. Grant that I know.

65

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

66

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

68

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

69

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

70

Your time on this earth is a gift to be used wisely. Don't squander your words or your thoughts. Consider that even the simplest actions you take for your lives matter beyond measure...and they matter forever.

71

If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big ‘however’- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choice…and never understood the difference between the two.

72

There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.

73

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

74

See into life, don't just look at it

75

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

76

We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.

77

Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God's advisers are Muammar Qaddafi and Phyllis Schlafly.

78

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.

79

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

80

I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.

81

When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.

82

For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.

83

"Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I shall be read? Seven." "Why seven?" Bunin asked. "Well," Chekhov answered, "seven and a half then."

84

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

85

You'll understand what life is if you think about the act of dying. When I die, how will I be different from the way I am right now? In the first moments after death, my body will be scarcely different in physical terms than it was in the last seconds of life, but I will no longer move, no longer sense, nor speak, nor feel, nor care. It's these things that are life. At that moment, the psyche takes flight in the last breath.

86

Every minute that you save by making it useful, more profitable, is so much added to your life and its possibilities. Every minute lost is a neglected by-product - once gone, you will never get it back.

87

I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

88

We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

89

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

90

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

91

What love will make you do All the things that we accept Be the things that we regret

92

Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.

93

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

94

There are always and only two trains running. There is life and there is death. Each of us rides them both. To live life with dignity, to celebrate and accept responsibility for your presence in the world is all that can be asked of anyone.

95

Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.

96

The greatest attribute of God is Love. The Tree of Life is located in the very depth of our soul. The most perfect and abundant fruit that grows and ripens is Life giving Love; it is the great healing force in the world. Love never fails to meet every demand of the human heart. The Divine principal of Love may be used to eliminate every sorrow, infirmity, in-harmony, ignorance and all mistakes of mankind. Love is God; eternal, limitless, changeless, infinite. It is the pulse of the world, the heartbeat of the Universe.

97

Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.

98

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

99

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

100

Feelings are constantly changing. None is dependable for long. You can love someone intensely today, and tomorrow or next month not feel a thing. Except perhaps for the feeling of doubt or depression that what was so beautiful could change so quickly.

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