Life Quotes...

Life Quotes

"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."
- Arthur Rubinstein
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"It doesn’t interest me how old you are,
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love,
for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive."
- Oriah Mountain Dreamer
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"If you let yourself be absorbed completely,
if you surrender completely to the moments as they pass,
you live more richly those moments."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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"The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow -
so grow! By doing what is right."
- Zelda Fitzgerald
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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
- Judy Garland
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"I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible,
to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter:
to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference
that you lived at all."
– Leo Rosten
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"Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life -
learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing
and dance and play and work every day some."
- Robert Fulghum
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"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.
The last of life, for which the first was made."
- Robert Browning, 'Rabbi Ben Ezra'
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"Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last."
- Marcus Aurelius
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"What is life? It is the flash of the firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little
shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."
- dying words of Crowfoot, leader of the Blackfoot Nation
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"Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive."
- Warren Miller

Quotes and a Verse on Life and Living (part 2)

Quotes and a Verse on Life and Living (part 2)

"Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life.
He who believes in Me will live, even though he dies;
and whoever lives and believes in Me will never die.'"
- John 11:25-26
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"Everything that a man leans upon but God,
will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart
through and through. He who leans only upon Christ,
lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life."
- Thomas Brooks
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"I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to
me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you...
we are in charge of our attitudes."
- Charles R. Swindoll
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"What is the use of living if not to strive for noble
causes and to make this muddled world a better place
for those who will live in it after we are gone?"
- Winston Churchill
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"Each of us has a spark of life inside us,
and our highest endeavor ought to be to
set off that spark in one another."
- Kenny Ausubel
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"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes
you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world
needs is people who can come alive."
- Howard Thurman
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"Don't let other people tell you what you want."
– Pat Riley
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"We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
- Joseph Campbell
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"I didn't want to get to the end of my life and
find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to
have lived the width of it as well."
- Diane Ackerman
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"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."
- Mother Teresa

Quotes on Life and Living...

Quotes on Life and Living (part 1)

"Each day is a 24-hour miracle to be treated with
awe and experienced to its fullest."
- HBS, "Daily Thoughts"
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"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that?
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
We must believe that we are gifted for something and that
this thing must be attained."
– Marie Curie
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"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact."
– William James
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"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."
- James Dean
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"Not only is your story worth telling,
but it can be told in words so painstakingly
eloquent that it becomes a song."
- Gloria Naylor
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"Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be."
- Grandma Moses
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"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee,
the small child, and the smiling face. Smell the rain and
feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential
and fight for your dreams."
- Ashley Smith
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"The most important things in life aren't things."
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
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"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced...
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice."
- Cherokee Proverb
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"It is good to have an end to journey toward;
but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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"That I will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
- Emily Dickinson

Quotes and a Verse on Life and Living...

Quotes and a Verse on Life and Living

"Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ.
He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us,
a pleasing aroma to God."
- Ephesians 5:2
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"Life is a promise; fulfill it."
- Mother Teresa
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"Life is a succession of lessons, which
must be lived to be understood."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Life is a great big canvas, and you should
throw all the paint you can on it."
- Danny Kaye
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"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
- Robert Byrne
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"You have lived well if something of your influence
survives to inspire others to live well."
- Ralph Lee Goodman
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"Life is a gift to you. The way you live your life
is your gift to those who come after."
- Author Unknown
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"Nothing should be prized more highly
than the value of each day."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and
told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'"
– Maya Angelou
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"Today, let's give thanks for life. For life
itself. For simply being born!"
- Daphne Rose Kingma
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"Life [is] a culmination of the past, an awareness of
the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge,
the quality that gives a touch of divinity."
- Charles A. Lindbergh
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"I hope that my achievements in life shall be these -
that I will have fought for what was right and fair,
that I will have risked for that which mattered and
that I will have given help to those who were in need,
that I will have left the earth a better place for
what I've done and who I've been."
- C. Hoppe
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"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
- Helen Keller

Quotes on Life and Living...

Quotes on Life and Living

"Here is the test to find whether your mission
on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."
- Richard Bach

"If you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs,
you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very
opposite of death, and therefore you must at very
least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."
- Mel Brooks

"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."
- John Burroughs

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."
- Marcus Aurelius