Top 100 Life Quotes

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Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

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Life isn't long enough to do all you could accomplish. And what a privilege even to be alive. In spite of all the pollutions and horrors, how beautiful this world is. Supposing you only saw the stars once every year. Think what you would think. The wonder of it!

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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

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Dreams are necessary to life.

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In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.

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I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

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It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

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Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you

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To find yourself, think for yourself.

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No matter how dark and gloomy it looks in your life right now, if you'll release the weight of those burdens, you will see the sun break forth.

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Life is full of surprises.

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Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

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When people are mean to you, win them over with kindness. If it doesn't work, you still win.

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if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

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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.

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I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

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Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even to require a justification. Indeed, most people do not even think about whether they should or should not make a baby. They just make one. In other words, procreation is usually the consequence of sex rather than the result of a decision to bring people into existence. Those who do indeed decide to have a child might do so for any number of reasons, but among these reasons cannot be the interests of the potential child. One can never have a child for that child’s sake.

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I need you to rescue me from my destiny, I'm tryna live right and give you whatevers left of me.

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The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.

Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but ...25

Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ...26

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

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In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

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If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.

Put your trust in the living God and all will be right in time and ...31

Put your trust in the living God and all will be right in time and eternity.

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Life is a game and true love is a trophy.

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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must ...34

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

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One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.

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For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.

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I do like a little bit of butter to my bread.

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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

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It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'

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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.

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When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the leaves fall and the snow comes, is some kind of defeat, something which we should hold out against. No. Winter is part of the natural course of events. No winter, no summer. No cold, no heat.

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

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I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

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Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

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I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

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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.

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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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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.

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The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

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Love ... is a living reality.

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It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to study the two items separately. Similarly, we can not separate life from living matter, in order to study only living matter and its reactions. Inevitably, studying living matter and its reactions, we study life itself

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All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations of the same living matter. This adapts itself to different jobs and circumstances, but operates on the same basic principles. Muscle contraction is only one of these adaptations. In principle it would not matter whether we studied nerve, kidney or muscle to understand the basic principles of life. In practice, however, it matters a great deal.

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The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

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I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.

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Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul.

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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.

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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

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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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That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

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There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

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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

65

No man actually owns a fortune. It owns him.

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LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.

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Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

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Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart.

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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

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

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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

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

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There is only so much energy available to us in life. Spending it on solving problems is one possible way of living your life, but this may leave you empty - hearted; spending it on what excites you is a lot more fulfilling and fun - and effortless; and usually, the previously experienced problems vanish on their own. We don't have to battle against the darkness when all we need to do is turn on the light.

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In desperate times, much more than anything else, folks need perspective. For perspective brings calm. Calm leads to clear thinking. Clear thinking yields new ideas. And ideas produce the bloom...of an answer. Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

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Youve got to live life to write a book about it.

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It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.

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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.

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Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.

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The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

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I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.

81

See into life, don't just look at it

82

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

83

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.

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Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

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I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

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this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime.

87

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

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I love life because what more is there?

90

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.

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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?

92

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

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The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.

94

We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.

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The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

96

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

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And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.

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We should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts which will be a living treasure of knowledge always with us, and from which, at various times, and amidst all the shiftings of circumstances, we might be sure of drawing some comfort, guidance and sympathy.

99

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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For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know.

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