Top 100 Life Quotes

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Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small ...2

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. ...4

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

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Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

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someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but which we have long since forgotten, who can reveal to us more about the true secrets of life, and also our own lives, than our parents were ever able to.

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In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

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Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

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Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

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Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

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A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

12

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

13

Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.

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Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

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The only real argument against the Bible is an unholy life. When a man argues against the Word of God, follow him home, and see if you cannot discover the reason of his enmity to the Word of the Lord. It lies in some sort of sin.

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God...doesn't intend to help us live the Christian life. Immaturity considers the Lord Jesus a Helper. Maturity knows Him to be life itself.

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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

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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.

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You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

20

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

21

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

22

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

24

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

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I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.

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

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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.

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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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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

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If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.

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Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

34

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

35

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

38

Life is a game and true love is a trophy.

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Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life.

40

Working gets in the way of living.

41

Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our duty to desire to live long upon the earth, that we may do as much good as we possibly can. I esteem it a great privilege to have the opportunity of living in mortality. The Lord has sent us here "for a wise and glorious purpose," and it should be our business to find out what that purpose is and then to order our lives accordingly.

42

The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.

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There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.

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A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

45

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

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Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

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

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Life is a gift from God, an unlimited series of opportunities to find the good in ourselves and others. There is good in everything, if we are willing to see it.

49

I rebel; therefore I exist.

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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

51

It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.

52

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

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Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

55

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

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Life is not a mixture of matter and energy but energy in matter, bound in such a way that dissociation is impossible so long as the living process continues.

57

Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?

58

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

59

I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life.

60

The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.

61

Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.

62

So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant.

63

John declared that "Christ received not of the fulness at the first," but that he "continued from grace to grace until he received a fulnesss and thus he was called the Son of God, because he received not of the fulness at the first." Thus is it with us all. We must work out our salvation and exaltation by coming to this earth. Man must be born into mortality and live and die that he may continue in his progress toward eternal life and exaltation.

64

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.

65

Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.

66

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.

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Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink. It's your job to avoid the obstacles. If you let them stop you or distract you, you're not doing your job, and failing to do your job will cause regrets that paralyze you more than a bad back.

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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

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Life is not a dress rehearsal - wake up every day excited to live out your purpose.

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To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

71

Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.

72

People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.

73

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.

74

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.

75

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

76

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.

77

I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door. Falling from airplanes the people are crying thank you, thank you, all down the air; and the cold carriages draw up for them on the rocks.

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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

79

We have the potential for making massive change... and the bottom line is that we can't be the generation responsible for wiping out three-fourths of life forms on the Earth.

80

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

81

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

83

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

84

There's always someone who secretly believes in myths and legends; or at least parts of them. Those are the people who will look beyond the obvious and see things in this world that are truly wonderful... But they won't say anything, even if they do. Because the rest of us who view the world as logical and scientific wouldn't see the truth if it was posted up on a billboard.

85

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

87

Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

88

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

89

We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams... Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.

90

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

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There is a vast region of enormous potential located somewhere between your ears.

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Life is only worth-while through the eyes of a believer.

93

The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.

94

Do me a favor... Stand up, walk to wherever the nearest window is, and just look outside. You may not know this, but there's an entire planets-worth of summers, friends, sunsets, street lamps, songs, late nights, great films, and night skies waiting for you. Your life is as amazing as you want it to be, but first, you have to let it be that way.

95

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

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They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.

97

Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.

98

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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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

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I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.

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