430 Great Quotes About Life to Ponder and Share (Page 2 of 3)

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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

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Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

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One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

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What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

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The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

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Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

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I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

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Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

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Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

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Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

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Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

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If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world.

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

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Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed . . . as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones.

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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

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The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

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Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

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Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we 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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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can."
Keynote Address, University of the Arts, 134th Commencement (Philadelphia, PA, May 17, 2012).

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Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

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Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

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Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

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He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. Do every act of your life as if it were your last. In a word, your life is short. You must make the most of the present with the aid of reason and justice. Since it is possible that you may be quitting life this very moment, govern every act and thought accordingly.

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

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Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

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

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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

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A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

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If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

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Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

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If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

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I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

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The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

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I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

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Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

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A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

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Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
