Life Quotes and Sayings (15)
Quotes about Life

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 (attributed)

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump

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When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill

Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar.
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Only good comes from being honest and true.
Only harm and suffering cone from falsehood.
It doesn't always feel as if good comes from truth and honesty,
but, in the long run, it does.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain

We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz

Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series

Always Sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Own Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I find that he is happiest
of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson

If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

People sort themselves into groups
of happy people and unhappy people
through two different, but complementary mechanisms,
influence and affinity.
I influence those around me
with my emotional state, either happy or unhappy.
At the same time, I feel an affinity
for others who are like me in some way -
in this case by sharing my emotional outlook on life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl

Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein

To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono

We CHOOSE our actions, thoughts, and feelings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter

Make Today count. Today - each Today -
is the most important day of your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey

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

The good news is that you aren't
as important as you thought you were.
Relax. The weight of the world
is not on your shoulders.
Take a day off.
Go for a long silent walk in the woods.
The world will still be there tomorrow -
as good and as bad as ever.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe

In the long history of humankind (and animal-kind, too)
those who learned to collaborate and
improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- Charles Darwin

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus

Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman

The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein

See beauty in the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant

Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Happiness is a state of mind.
- Anonymous

Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Presence requires an internal alertness
to the all and everything surrounding us.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- 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

Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau

Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield

The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard

To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung

Become more and more innocent,
less knowledgeable and more childlike.
Take life as fun -
because that's precisely what it is!
- Osho

Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

Life is serious, get out your magic wand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The girl of my dreams is my mother's shadow,
cast upon the distant movie screen of my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise

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

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
- Alfred Adler

Forgive those who have injured you -
not because they deserve your forgiveness,
but because you can never be happy
until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Keep your attention focused entirely
on what is truly your own concern,
and be clear that what belongs to others
is their business and none of yours.
- Epictetus

Play full-out and enjoy all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The ego lives by comparisons...
The ego cannot survive without judgment.
- A Course in Miracles

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

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France

One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha

It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon

We humans feel an instinctive need to know
what is coming next - what we can count upon.
We fear change - even the most positive change.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is,
a dissatisfaction with self.
- Joan Didion

The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous

Life is.
- Anonymous

Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein

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

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