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Quotes about Life
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
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As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Children are curious and are risk takers.
They have lots of courage.
They venture out into a world
that is immense and dangerous.
A child initially trusts life
and the processes of life.
- John Bradshaw
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
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"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You need to make a commitment,
and once you make it,
then life will give you some answers.
- Les Brown
Do your best, and always accept life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world just IS, and we all have our stories about it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Most people are more skilled at begging God than at thanking God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
In the long history of humankind (and animal-kind, too)
those who learned to collaborate and
improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- Charles Darwin
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.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The girl of my dreams is my mother's shadow,
cast upon the distant movie screen of my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is,
a dissatisfaction with self.
- Joan Didion
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
- Albert Schweitzer
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is
where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life.
Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
It's not the situation that's causing your stress,
it's your thoughts,
and you can change that right here and now.
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now.
Peace is a choice,
and it has nothing to do with
what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
- Mark Twain
Your life is the manifestation of your dream;
it is an art.
You can change your life anytime if
you aren't enjoying the dream.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
One day Alice came to a fork in the road
and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
"Which road do I take?" she asked.
His responses was a question: "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll
Live wild, life free, live as master of your own fate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we want to direct our lives,
we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives,
but what we do consistently.
- Anthony Robbins
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand,
while imagination embraces the entire world,
and all there ever will be to know and understand.
- Albert Einstein
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The process of scientific discovery is,
in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
- Albert Einstein
Travel teaches toleration.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Nobody, as long as he moves about
among the chaotic currents of life,
is without trouble.
- Carl Jung
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Gardening is an instrument of grace.
- May Sarton
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
Know the power of choice.
Fly life on free wings,
and sing to its glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live life to the fullest.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Give somebody a gold star - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
Know that you are a gift to the world.
Your life is important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Pain is what the world inflicts upon us.
Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail
to make the difficult conscious choice to choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Long ago men fought and died for their faith;
but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, -
the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren
and their rights of conscience.
- Helen Keller
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
What you resist, persists.
- Carl Jung
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