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Quotes on life The meaning of life is simply not to survive, not to pass, not to exist but to move forward, to live happily, to achieve and to succeed. On the other hand, the meaning of the quote is “a quotation from a text or a speech”. Quotes mean to repeat words said by someone by praising the writer or speaker. Amazing quotes to inspire you to live your life to its highest potential. ”I find that life can become so complex that we can forget the things in life that were meant to bring us the most pleasure.” – Dolores Ayotte. ”Live for today, hope for tomorrow. And forget about yesterday.” – Grant Ngobean.
Enjoy these inspiring and insightful Life Sayings.
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The following life quotes are all about feelings, attitudes, and thoughts about life. Some are famous life quotes; others are simply inspirational, funny, motivational or thought-provoking. Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to.
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Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
-Confucius
One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
'I will try again tomorrow.'
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
-Helen Keller
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
-Helen Keller
As far as we can discern,
the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
- Carl Jung
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Begin each day as if it were on purpose.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
…when the task is accomplished,
the people will say
'We have done it ourselves.'
- Lao Tzu
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey
At the end of a matter ask, 'what will I learn from this to make me better?'
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In the beginning was the Word.
- John 1:1
Consider calling it a challenge rather than calling it a crisis.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be...
because of all I may become I will close my eyes and leap!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Discover the tools to build your own vision.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing, once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
– The Buddha
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it.
This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
– The Buddha
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves,
we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
- Pema Chodron
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
- Meister Eckhart
Be gentle first with yourself - if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
-Ernest Holmes
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Famous Sayings about Life
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
I have a Dream...
- Martin Luther King Jr.
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count.
It's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-Anais Nin
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
Sayings on Life
May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.
May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
May your heart sing sweet lullabies of timelessness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a Book of Riddles, with the Real Lessons Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today, I Dance Lightly With Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life, and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life’s only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply and gratefully -
never from making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is NOT 'Supposed to be Fair.'
Know that there is no single way that life is 'supposed' to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us - with Gratitude.
Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don’t have the power to make life “fair,”
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one’s personal opinion is absolute truth leads to most of the world’s troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy increases and suffering decreases as one masters
the distinction between events and one’s feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be a passionate Observer of Life.
See the events, feel the emotions, and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Honor your being,
Release each and every struggle,
Gather strength from life’s storms,
Relax into the arms of spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I forgive everyone for every “wrong” that I believe they have ever inflicted upon me.
I forgive them for my own sake, that I may release the venom -
the anger and resentment within myself -
and regain my joy and serenity.
I have compassion for everyone who has ever been a player upon the stage of my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, grant comfort, joy and health to those I call friend,
to those I call enemy,
and to those I have cursed by my indifference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no accusation of 'fault,' there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose the World You See, and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is your day to dance lightly with life. It really is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dream,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sayings about Love
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Love is not a matter of counting the years, but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love your enemies
bless them that curse you,
do good to them that hate you,
and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.
- Matthew 5:44
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
L Quotes About Life Quote
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is saying 'I feel differently,' instead of 'You're wrong.'
- Anonymous
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm,
but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby
I love you, not only for what you are,
but for what I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
Do you love me because I am beautiful,
or am I beautiful because you love me?
- Oscar Hammerstein II (Cinderella)
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Funny Sayings about Life
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
L Quotes About Life Quotes
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't
. -Erica Jong
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering -
and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
God writes a lot of comedy...
the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
- Garrison Keillor
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
L Quotes About Life Poems
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
-Truman Capote
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
-Woody Allen
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
Life is like a sewer...
what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
- Tom Lehrer
When life gives you lemons,
Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
10 Best Life Quotes
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
-Oscar Wilde
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