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Inspirational Sayings about Life, Love, and Happiness
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The World's 10 Most Inspirational Sayings
These ten great inspirational life sayings from diverse cultures and times represent the thread of enlightenment and compassion that has always run through the greatest among us, and are, to me, the best of the best. Click on each name to see more great sayings about life.
This above all, to thine own self be true. - William Shakespeare
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. - Confucius
Happiness depends upon ourselves. - Aristotle
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tsu
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. - Chief Seattle
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. - Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. – St Francis of Assisi
There are no facts, only interpretations. - Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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Inspirational Sayings, Quotes about Life
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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
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
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Green
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Inspirational Sayings and Quotes about Love
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.
I love you for that part of me you bring out.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the Spirit.
- Kahlil Gibran
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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My Own Inspirational Sayings about Life and Love
I am unlimited.
I take responsibility for my life.
My every action is a conscious choice.
I can accomplish anything good that I truly set my mind on.
I keep focus, and persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today, I Dance Lightly With Life.
- jlh
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.
- jlh
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- jlh
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- jlh
You don’t have the power to make life “fair,” but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- jlh
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- jlh
As a happy person, you radiate happiness to the world. Visualize your light radiating throughout the world, passing from person to person until it encircles the globe.
- jlh
The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life.
- jlh
Training yourself to live in the present - without regretting the past or fearing the future - is a recipe for a happy life.
- jlh
When you feel worried and depressed, consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- jlh
Angry and happy don't mix. Flush out the angry, and the happy has a place to put down roots.
- jlh
Joy increases and suffering decreases as one masters the distinction between events and one’s feelings about those events.
- jlh
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing
. - jlh
The magic words for a great relationship are, "I love you just the way you are."
- jlh
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