Life Quotes and Sayings (12)
Quotes about Life

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore

These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln

Without zest, what is life?
Just waiting for death?
- Osho

A dream is a wish your heart makes.
- The Supremes

Recovery begins with embracing our pain
and taking the risk to share it with others.
We do this by joining a group
and talking about our pain.
- John Bradshaw

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Heroes act in spite of their fear,
while the rest of us act because of our fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
- Carl Jung

Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.

In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind

We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz

Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone

Often the hands will solve a mystery
that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
- Carl Jung

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

"You always..." and "you never..." are code phrases for
"you don't meet my expectations,
so I am declaring you inadequate and unacceptable."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan

The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts

No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Happiness is the final and perfect fruit
of obedience to the laws of life.
- Helen Keller

One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach

No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous

Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus

I am merely a bit player in your stories,
as you are merely a bit player in mine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus

Whatever you say, say with kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you would convince others,
seem open to conviction yourself.
- Lord Chesterfield

To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho

I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness,
and the word happy would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
It is far better take things as they come along
with patience and equanimity.
- Carl Jung

When we hate our enemies, we are
giving them power over us:
power over our sleep, our appetites,
our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
Our enemies would dance with joy if only
they knew how they were worrying us,
lacerating us, and getting even with us!
Our hate is not hurting them at all,
but our hate is turning our own days
and nights into a hellish turmoil.
- Dale Carnegie

When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher

The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
- Audre Lorde

Confession of errors is like a broom
which sweeps away the dirt
and leaves the surface brighter and clearer.
I feel stronger for confession.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet.
We all breathe the same air.
We all cherish our children's future.
And we are all mortal.
- John F. Kennedy

Persevere in moving toward highly worthwhile but difficult goals.
In smaller issues, take an easier course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The show must go on.
- Proverb

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

And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung

Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain

Unexpected events can set you back or set you up.
It's all a matter of - perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim

Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Attention is the ability we have to discriminate
and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Feeling overwhelmed by apparent demands on our time
is like going to a restaurant,
ordering everything on the menu,
and complaining about indigestion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Humans are essentially storytellers.
- Walter Fisher

When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying

Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
- Lao Tzu

I forgive for my own sake,
that I may transmute my resentments into Unconditional Love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha

A reflection of life is not life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The very essence of instinct is that
it's followed independently of reason.
- Charles Darwin

Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life and death are one thread,
the same line viewed from different sides.
- Lao Tzu

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