Life Quotes and Sayings (16)
Quotes about Life

I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My happiness depends on me.
- A Course in Miracles

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Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace

One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie

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

Know that you are a gift to the world.
Your life is important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe

We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Being angry harms your physical,
emotional, and spiritual well-being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

When you lose touch with yourself,
you lose yourself in the world.
- Eckhart Tolle

Relax. 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

The being of our mothers is forever branded onto our own being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"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 cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour
is not the critical, decisive hour.
Write it on your heart that
every day is the best day in the year.
No man has learned anything rightly,
until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dreams pass into the reality of action.
From the actions stems the dream again;
and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- Anais Nin

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus

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

He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali

When life is too easy for us, we must beware
or we may not be ready to meet the blows
which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne

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

Laughter gives us distance.
It allows us to step back from an event,
deal with it and then move on.
- Bob Newhart

Stress is nothing more than a
socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson

Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Lives based on having are less free
than lives based on doing or being.
- E.Y. Harburg

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman

Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fear is the root of the tree of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Learn to become still. And to take your attention
away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it,
and place your attention on what you wish to experience.
- Michael Beckwith

Know that the greatest gift you can give the world is your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Albert Einstein

We believe whatever we want to believe.
- Demosthenes

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

"I" is a non-stop storyteller, spinning tales
of the past, the present and the future -
constantly editing, interpreting
and directing this inner movie.
- Josh Baran

I recognize that the person I was in my past
is not the person I am today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Endings: sometimes a season of sorrow and grief.
Endings: what must precede new beginnings.
Life is an endless cycle of endings and beginnings.
Renewal and rebirth cannot occur without endings -
as the new year's crop can only be planted and flourish
in the decay of last year.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be clear that expectations are demands.
Demanding that life turn out the way we prefer
is a sure path to disappointment and suffering.
Happiness lies in having no expectations,
and accepting life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Live life to the fullest.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Remember that life is an ADVENTURE, and cheer Whee...
all the way down the slippery razor-blade of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer

Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow

A hero is an ordinary individual
who finds the strength to persevere
and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
- Christopher Reeve

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow
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I find that he is happiest
of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson

Be here now.
- Ram Dass

Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
- Martin Buber

Happiness is a state of mind.
- Anonymous

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
- Walt Whitman

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts

Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington

Nature and human life are as various
as our several constitutions.
Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
- Henry David Thoreau

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain

We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde

Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe

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

Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler

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