Life Quotes

We make a living by what we get, but we make
a life by what we give....Sir Winston Churchill.

Let us endeavor to live, that when we come to
die even the undertaker will be sorry....Mark Twain.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself,
and know that everything in life has purpose. There are
no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings
given to us to learn from....Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the
best which is within us....Marianne Williamson.

And life is what we make it. Always has
been, always will be....Grandma Moses.

Our life is what our thoughts make it....Marcus Aurelius Antonius.

A long life may not be good enough, but a
good life is long enough....Benjamin Franklin.

What consumes your mind, controls your life....Creed.

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.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of
this life that no man can sincerely try to help
another without helping himself....Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm
for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll
be warm for the rest of his life....Unknown.

If you spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly
useless manner, you have learned how to live....Lin Yu Tang.

In three words I can sum up everything I've
learned about life -- it goes on....Robert Frost.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another
human being. We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit....Albert Schweitzer.

That it will never come again is
what makes life sweet....Emily Dickinson.

Don't ever give up. The greatest things accomplished in
life are those you strive for. Never give up hope. Remember
amateurs built the ark and pros built the titanic....Unknown.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is
about creating yourself....George Bernard Shaw.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other
discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life
unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away
from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in
the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty,
joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden
one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such....Henry Miller.

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone
acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the
circuits of our highest potential....Rusty Berkus.

The adventure of life is to learn.
The purpose of life is to grow.
The nature of life is to change.
The challenge of life is to overcome.
The essence of life is to care.
The opportunity of life is to serve.
The secret of life is to dare.
The spice of life is to befriend.
The beauty of life is to give.
The joy of life is to love....William Arthur Ward.

My favorite quote is "Life is too short to be little," written
by Disraeli. Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we
should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over
grievances that, in a year’s time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody.
No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great
thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings....Andre Maurois.

By ourselves we can enjoy life, but to really
appreciate life we must find companionship....Unknown.

What does open us is sharing our vulnerabilities. Sometimes we
see a couple who has done this difficult work over a lifetime.
In the process, they have grown old together. We can sense the
enormous comfort, the shared quality of ease between these people.
It is beautiful, and very rare. Without this quality of openness
and vulnerability, partners don't really know each other; they are
one image living with another image....Charlotte Joko Beck.

Life isn't fair, but life isn't fair for
everyone. That makes life fair....Unknown.

When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream,
assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself
with labour you are in truth loving life, and to love life
through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret....Kahlil Gibran.

I think that if you do the best you can in your life, you get
your just reward. You sometimes give up a great deal to achieve
a plane you're looking for. But if you find that it's important
enough, then you do it. You have to decide. Even when you figure
you've given up a great deal to get a small amount of something,
the pain is only there for a short time. It really goes away.
Whatever the quandary, it leaves you....Frank Sinatra.

Life's like a movie. Write your own ending.
Keep believing. Keep pretending....The Muppet Movie.

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to
be "happy." I think the purpose of life
is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable,
to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter,
to count, to stand for something, to have made some
difference that you lived at all....Leo C. Rosten.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you've imagined....Henry David Thoreau.

Every achiever I have ever met says, "My life turned
around when I began to believe in me"....Robert Schuller.

Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes,
there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated,
they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game
plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing
that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes
an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life
-- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us
to face up to adversity and strife....Dennis Waitley.

Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between
misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all.
And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just
okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes
boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's
not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day....Barbara Sher.

The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took
the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is
this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps
which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved
that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to
blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers....Helen Keller.

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles,
have strengthened me...You may not realize it when it happens, but a
kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you....Walt Disney.

If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very
noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible
mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial
and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus
enriched...Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable
to the fullest development of personality...Only in prayer do we achieve
that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which
gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths....Alexis Carrel.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we
have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal
into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a
friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace
for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow....Melody Bettie.

It's time to start living the life you've imagined....Henry James.

Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want
to realize. Your words are the greatest power you have. The words
you choose and use establish the life you experience....Sonia Croquette.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the
unquestionable ability of man to elevate his
life by conscious endeavor....Henry David Thoreau.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on....Carl Sandburg.

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.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is
the very purpose of life, and not something you
do in your spare time....Marion Wright Edelman.

Strive for integrity -- that means knowing
your values in life and behaving in a way that
is consistent with these values....Unknown.

We seek the comfort of another. Someone to shape and
share the life we choose. Someone to help us through
the never ending attempt to understand ourselves.
And in the end, someone to comfort us along the
way....Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you
meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day
expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave
behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate
the burdens everyone is struggling with....Brian Tracy.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day
by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways....Unknown.

A great writer once said, that a great book requires a great
theme. So does a great life. An endless stream of books are
meaningless and will not last as great literature, because
they do not have a great theme. So it is with people. All too
much in human history is wasted and meaningless because there
is no great theme, no great purpose in life. Men and women have
a deep hunger in life for meaning and purpose, but so often they are
afraid to let go of a self-centered ego. To have a great theme in life
involves taking a risk of moving beyond the narrow limitations of
myself and discovering our true self where Jesus is at the center:
nurturing, healing and empowering us to be men and women for
others. Here is our great theme, our meaning and purpose....Harry Huxhold.

Don't run your life by what's legal or illegal. Run your
life based on what's right or wrong....H. Ross Perot.

You can preach a better sermon with your
life than with your lips....Oliver Goldsmith.

You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind.
Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing...Get
interested in something! Get absolutely enthralled in something!
Get out of yourself! Be somebody! Do something...The more you lose
yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you
will have. Do Something!....Rev. Norman Vincent Peale.

I’ve found many places in my own life where I keep a secret
store of indifference as a sort of self-protection....Unknown.

My life is my message....Mohandas Gandhi.

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and
tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life
you will have been all of these....George Washington Carver.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes.
It makes little difference what's happening out there.
It's how you take it that counts....Denis Waitley.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief
requirements of life, when all that we need to make us
really happy is something to be enthusiastic about....Charles Kingsley.

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having
passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not
closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with
a husband, a friend, a child or a parent....Barbara Bush.

And now, I'm glad I didn't know the way it all would end, the way
it all would go. Our lives are better left to chance, I could've
missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss the Dance....Garth Brooks.

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to
begin...But there was always some obstacle in the way, something
to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still
to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it
dawned on me that these obstacles were my life....Alfred Souza.

When we long for life without...difficulties,
remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds
and diamonds are made under pressure....Peter Marshall.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a
big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays
with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life
after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life....Chris Evert.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the
universe is that it has never tried to contact us....Bill Watterson.

If life were predictable it would cease to be
life, and be without flavor....Eleanor Roosevelt.

One can live magnificently in this world if one
knows how to work and how to love....Leo Tolstoy.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish,
but that they cease to love....W. Somerset Maugham.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness...my life was
without past or future...but a little word from the fingers
of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness,
and my heart leaped to the rapture of living....Helen Keller.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a
limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when
our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the
fullest, as if it were the only one we had....Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.

One only has to view the fiery sunset into the ocean;
Feel the cottony soft sand beneath your feet;
Hear the rhythmic ocean waves breaking on the beach;
Witness the full golden moon being overtaken in the west
As the sun rises in the stillness of the eastern sky;
To appreciate and give thanks for the beauty of nature
That blesses our lives and renews the spirit within us....Gary Harrington.

I fear waking up one morning and finding out my life was all for nothing.
We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw
little torches out to lead people through the dark. When you're kind
to someone in trouble, you hope they remember and are kind to someone
else and so on. Soon it will be like a wildfire....Whoopie Goldberg.

Love is not a fairy tale that is always soft and cozy.
It is the journey of Life.
It transcends slowly the superficial emotions
Of anger, jealousy, hatred.
It climbs higher with each passing day of difficulties.
It rides life's storms one by one,
Until finally, after years of effort,
It attains the highest level of existence known to man.
It merges in that state of being, mortals call Heaven....Dr. Nirvikar Dahiya.

Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why
it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers
may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don’t complain about the bottom
rungs of the ladder; they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want
to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm....Warren Wiersbe.

Living to a ripe old age may not be one of humanity's great
blessings, but to live with gusto at a ripe old age is to discover
not only what life is about, but what it's always been about....Joe Klock.

May you live all the days of your life....Jonathan Swift.

Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has
hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in
extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest.
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!....Henry David Thoreau.

It's a simple liberating reality -- the best things
in life are mine for the choosing....Thomas Kinkade.

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to
those who show their good qualities in action....Aristotle.

Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and
to work and to play and to look up at the stars....Henry Van Dyke.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery,
intellectually and spiritually. One must fight
for a life of action, not reaction....Rita Mae Brown.

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.

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.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest
critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate
beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social
condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you
have lived. This is to have succeeded....Ralph Waldo Emerson.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the
real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light....Plato.

When I filter the sunshine in my life,
I bask in the light of a transforming
and inspiring reality....Thomas Kinkade.

This is all you have. This is not a dry run.
This is your life. If you want to fritter it away
with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but
you won't get it back later....Dr. Laura Schlessinger.

Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot
of time running around shouting that he's been robbed. The fact is
that most putts don't drop, most beef is tough, most children grow
up to be just people, most successful marriages require a high degree
of mutual toleration, and most jobs are more often dull than otherwise.
Life is like an old time journey...delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust,
cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful
vistas, and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank
the Lord for letting you have the ride....Gordon B. Hinckley.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run
than outright exposure. Life is either a daring
adventure, or nothing....Helen Keller.

To live means to experience -- through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience
takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have.
Over the years, the content of experience will determine the quality of
life. Therefore one of the most essential decisions any one of us can make
is about how one's time is allocated or invested....Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is
a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man
the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of
his choosing you may fairly measure him....Ben Ames Williams.

Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the
air. You name them...work, family, health, friends and spirit, and
you're keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that
work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the
other four balls...family, health, friends and spirit...are made of
glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked,
nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same....Unknown.

You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream,
your life wakes up and everything has meaning....Barbara Sher.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be
honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference
that you have lived and lived well....Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Change and growth take place when a person has
risked himself and dares to become involved with
experimenting with his own life....Herbert Otto.

The be-all and end-all of life should not be
to get rich, but to enrich the world....B. C. Forbes.

"And now you have joy?"
"I do indeed."
"And how did you get it?"
"I chose it, admitted it into my life, then I
celebrated its arrival in my heart.
I made my celebration so loud and boisterous,
I prohibited all gloom from attending the celebration"....Calvin Miller.

Life is a journey, and one thing’s for sure: You don’t see many hearses
with luggage racks on them. We’re privileged to be here, so instead
of just using God’s resources, we should leave the place a little better
than we found it -- or at least leave it the same....Joel Cunningham.

The spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present
to the moment, trusting that new things will happen to us,
new things that are far beyond our own imagination, fantasy, or
prediction. That, indeed, is a very radical stance toward life in
a world preoccupied with control....Seeds of Hope: A Henri Nouwen Reader.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear,
feeling and instinct, not by rule....Samuel Butler.

Live your life and forget your age....Norman Vincent Peale.

Botanists say that trees need the powerful March winds to flex
their trunks and main branches, so that the sap is drawn up to
nourish the budding leaves. Perhaps we need the gales of life in
the same way, though we dislike enduring them. A blustery period
in our fortunes is often the prelude to a new spring of life and
health, success and happiness, when we keep steadfast in faith
and look to the good in spite of appearances....Jane Truax.

One word frees us from the weight and
pain of life; that word is love....Sophocles.

One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and
downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness....J. Robert Maskin.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning,
by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs
expressing, then we truly live life....Greg Anderson.

True hope responds to the real world, to real
life; it is an active effort....Walter Anderson.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut
diamonds. Discard them and their value will never
be known. Improve them and they will become the
brightest gems in a useful life....Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Most of us miss out on life's big prizes. The Pulitzer.
The Nobel. Oscars. Tonys. Emmys. But we're all eligible for life's
small pleasures. A pat on the back. A kiss behind the ear.
A four-pound bass. A full moon. An empty parking space. A cracking
fire. A great meal. A glorious sunset. Hot soup. Cold beer.
Don't fret about copping life's grand awards. Enjoy its tiny delights.
There are plenty for all of us....United Technologies Corporation Ad.

Life is what happens when you are making other plans....John Lennon.

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and
patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin,
then a generous or brave action....Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Love yourself and realize that whatever you attempt to
achieve in Life is a direct reflection of you....Joe Greene.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of
living is joy enough....Emily Dickenson.

My life is my message....Mahatma Gandhi.

I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say
that if you're alive, you've got to flap your arms and
legs, you've got to jump around a lot, you've got to make
a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.
And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not
living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts
should be noisy and colorful and lively....Mel Brooks.

Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the
only thing we know that we have for sure is what is
right here right now. Don't miss it....Leo Buscaglia.

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the
thinker what he thinks into it....Ernest Holmes.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day
as if it were your last. The past is over and gone.
The future is not guaranteed....Wayne Dyer.

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, he whiles
away the time as he waits for it to stop....Alfred Polgar.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long
as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to
be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live.
Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I
have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly
as possible before handing it on to future generations....George Bernard Shaw.

Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live....Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The great use of life is to spend it on
something that will outlast it....William James.

The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose....Richard Leider.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first
in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand....Kahlil Gibran.

Life has a lot more imagination than we do....Unknown.

This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given
this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it
for good. What you do today is important because you are
exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes,
this day will be gone forever; in its place is something
that you have left behind...let it be something good....Unknown.

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while....Albert Einstein.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser....Unknown.

Every person, all the events of your life are there
because you have drawn them there. What you choose
to do with them is up to you....Richard Bach.

Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good
person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge
because you are a vegetarian....Shari R. Barr.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in
playing those you hold well....Josh Billings.

Your work is to discover your world and then with
all your heart give yourself to it....Buddha.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows
into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom
for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for
me. To see reality -- not as we expect it to be but as it
is -- is to see that unless we live for each other and in
and through each other, we do not really live very
satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where
there really is, in just this sense, love....Frederick Buechner.

If you want happiness for an hour take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else....Chinese Proverb.

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.

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state
of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your
fear, your despair. The way to keep young is
to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence
young. Keep your hope young....Luella F. Phean.

It is not length of life, but depth
of life....Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Until you know that life is interesting -- and find it so --
you haven't found your soul....Geoffrey Fisher.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less
traveled by, and that has made all the difference....Robert Frost.

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid
that it will never begin....Grace Hansen.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be
continually fearing you will make one....Elbert Hubbard.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living
and your belief will help create the fact....William Jones.

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through
despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find
our place, on the path unwinding....Elton John, The Lion King.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting
difficulties, passing from one step of success to another,
forming new wishes and seeing them gratified....Samuel Johnson.

Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot
of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny
ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers
of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down
the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance....Robert Francis Kennedy.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when
the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty
is revealed only if their light is from within....Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices,
and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word,
and thought throughout our lifetime....Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.

We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One
that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest
gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can
make our choices built from love or from fear....Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.

The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet.
What you perceive in this world is largely a reflection
of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what
you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively
and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with
enthusiasm and you will attract positive results....Michael LeBeuf.

I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid,
more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live
so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom
and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit....Dawna Markova.

Life is about not knowing, having to change,
taking the moment and making the best of it,
without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious ambiguity....Gilda Radner.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death....Ayn Rand.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have,
and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful
lest you let other people spend it for you....Carl Sandburg.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must
not demean life by standing in awe of death....David Sarnoff.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough....Seneca.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could
not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived....Henry David Thoreau.

There is no such thing in anyone's life
as an unimportant day....Alexander Woollcott.

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not
a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a
matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the
emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life....Samuel Ullman.

Not everyone is healthy enough to have a front row seat in our lives. There
are some people in your life that need to be loved from a distance. It's
amazing what you can accomplish when you let go of or at least minimize
your time with draining, negative, incompatible, not-going-anywhere
relationships. Observe the relationships around you. Pay attention. Which
ones lift and which ones lean? Which ones encourage and which ones discourage?
Which ones are on a path of growth uphill and which ones are going downhill?
When you leave certain people do you feel better or feel worse? Which ones
always have drama or don't really understand, know, or appreciate you? The
more you seek quality, respect, growth, peace of mind, love and truth
around you...the easier it will become for you to decide who gets to sit
in the front row and who should be moved to the balcony of your life....Unknown.

If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would
be tempting but I would have to decline, for life
would no longer teach me anything....Allyson Jones.

Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic....Rosalind Russell.

I regret that I have but one life to give to my country....Nathan Hale.

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things
of life which are the real ones after all....Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition
or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we
make to others through honor and obligation...Laura Schlessinger.

The journey in between what you once were and who you are now becoming
is where the dance of life really takes place.... Barbara De Angelis.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others....Pericles.

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts:
therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain
no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature....Marcus Aurelius.

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