Thoughtful Quotes on Life & Living
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"The man who says he has exhausted life, generally means that life has exhausted him." Oscar Wilde
"Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth" Author Unknown
"Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off, and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself." Bill Gates
"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." - Queen Elizabeth II
"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back." - Maya Angelou
"The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live." - Ethel Percy Andru
"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together." - Charles Dickens
"I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life." - Barbara Bush
"You are the vibrational writers of the script of your life and everyone else in the Universe is playing the part that you have assigned to them." - Abraham/Abraham-Hicks
"Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling." Claude D. Pepper
"Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried and passed." Robert Thibodeau
"Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." - Mark Twain
"The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness." - Yogi Mahesh Maharishi
"Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands. - Cathy Better
"The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him." - Oscar Wilde
"The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives". - Unknown
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life." - Aristotle
"Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim." - Lord Byron
"Today is life - the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto." - Dale Carnegie
"I'm not the healthiest, but I am healthy. I'm healthy to the point where there are things that I have to eat that I don't want to eat, but I eat it because I'm enjoying staying alive." - Bill Cosby
"Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect." - Terry McMillan
"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be." - Grandma Moses
"If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln
"Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships." - Stephen Covey
"Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it." - Whoopi Goldberg
"One day I'll take a step of faith. One day I'll be more disciplined. One day I'll get my life straightened out. One day I'll go back to school. No, don't live waiting for one day. Start doing what you know to do today. Friends, life is short. Time is flying by." - Joel Osteen
"Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it." - Philip Larkin
"Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep." - Fran Lebowitz
"I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense." - Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
"Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still." - Lou Erickson
"Do not let others set the standards about how much money you should have— or about what you should do with it — for you are the only one who could ever accurately define that. Come into alignment with who-you-really-are, and allow the things that life has helped you to know that you want to flow into your experience. Abraham/of Abraham-Hicks
"You can most certainly help others through your thoughts, and they can help you. Every good thought you send to another is a living force. However, the person you are sending the thought to, has to be asking for the same thing you are sending. If the person does not want it, then they are not in harmony with your thought frequency, and it will not penetrate them. You cannot create in another's life against their will, but if it is something they want, your thoughts are a real force that helps them. - Rhonda Byrne
The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years. Deepak Chopra
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. Johnny Carson
Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard
In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life. Albert Bandera
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialized form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. Alvar Aalto
Sometimes it's interesting to see something that you're not used to seeing, which is the main ingredient of life, and it's removed from the usual entertainment. I think it's important to give the opportunity to people to witness the life of somebody who was not public. Michel Gondry
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar. Robert Frost
All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together. Morihei Ueshiba
When you do a lot of acting your entire life, you see the entire set from one point of view. To have a chance to step back and pull it all together is really exciting. You want to do it all; you want to have a hand in everything. Danica McKellar
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. Margaret J. Wheatley
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood. Charlotte Davis Kasl
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. Meister Eckhart
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. Toni Morrison
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. William Shakespeare
You're either going to live the life chosen or the life assigned. I want you to live the life chosen. Dr. Phil McGraw
Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving? George Saunders
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. George Washington Carver
You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. [...] For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life. Dale Carnegie
Sometimes we might think that some people are more advanced than us and much more a head of life but what we don't realize is that everyone has their challenges that they have to deal with in life and for some people accomplishing one big thing is more of an accomplishment than accomplishing a bunch of little things. Unknown
Take advantage of each small success. In this way you close the gap between what you want from life and what it is giving you. Deepak Chopra
Monday reminds me of how important it is to choose a job you love. Life is for living, not for being miserable at work! Unknown
Everything we experience—no matter how unpleasant—comes into our lives to teach us something. Iyanla Vanzant
Act as a master of your life by putting your health, well-being and happiness first. Marianna Olszewski
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. Charles M. Shulz
You were given life; it is your duty...to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight. Elizabeth Gilbert
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters. Audrey Hepburn
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. Horace
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. Alfred Adler
Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. Jean Anouilh
I know for sure that appreciating whatever shows up for you in life changes your personal vibration. You radiate and generate more goodness for yourself when you’re aware of all you have and not focusing on your have-nots. Oprah Winfrey
Change is a part of every life. Resisting is often as futile as it is frustrating. Unknown Author
Character develops itself in the stream of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
While we are postponing, life speeds by. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor. William Cowper
A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that. Laura Linney
If you start with the hardest tasks in life then everything else will come easy. Jeremiah R Boddy
Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it. William Christopher Handy
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. Woody Allen
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. William Lyon Phelps
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy. Sarah Ban Breathnach
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. Bruce Lee
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. William Shakespeare
Everyone saying life is to enjoy, but we have already got 24 hrs per day to enjoy, most of them are saving that for future and waiting for the time to enjoy our life in future...!! Manivasagam Karunakaran
Life is all about positivity, never let your sorrow, pain, and your past make you negative. People always want the best from others and not the worst. Smile, be happy, rejoice to every moment and everything will come to you miraculously. Unknown
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. Cary Grant
"When we enter a state of mindful attention, the present moment, the now, eases open. And when it does, life pours in." Anne Glusker