Great Quotes About Life to Ponder and Share (Page 2 of 3)
Life and death are one thread.
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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
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.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways -- either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.
I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.
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.
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.'
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.
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
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.
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
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.
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).
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
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.
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.
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.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
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.
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.
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
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.
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals.
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.
Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.
The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. I am talking about a gung-ho attitude that says 'we can change things here, we can achieve awesome goals, we can be the best. 'Spare me the grim litany of the 'realist;' give me the unrealistic aspirations of the optimist any day.
