Life Quotes and Sayings (17)
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)

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself.
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

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I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks
as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller

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

The supreme happiness of life
is the conviction of being loved for yourself,
or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
- Victor Hugo

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen

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

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

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

Give a boy address and accomplishments
and you give him the mastery
of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity.
- Albert Einstein

Fear always springs from ignorance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion rules reason.
- Terry Goodkind

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates

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

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

We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha

However carefully we plan our future,
we are always climbing the steps to nowhere.
While it is important to our happiness
that we have an intent for our lives,
it is equally crucial to accept in advance
that we truly have no idea how our lives will turn out -
and that is good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

To live a satisfying life requires two steps...
1. Plan your life goals.
2. Act on your plan - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Today is a day to honor other cultures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard,"
I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
- Sydney Harris

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

If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

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

Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir

We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus

Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous

Whatever you want in life, start today.
Not tomorrow - today.
Let it be a small beginning - a tiny beginning.
Your happiness depends on starting today - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The most painful and debilitating fear is fear of the unknown.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza

Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy

Cherish the uncertainty of life's adventures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Peace is its own reward.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

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

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer

Life is about more than today, and more than yourself.
What will your legacy be?
What will your great-grandchildren be told about you?
Creating a legacy does not have to be a burden,
it can be your joy and can create
your satisfaction with living each day.
What kind of world do you want to leave your great-grandchildren?
What can you do today to help create that world?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins

No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry

Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy

Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Live the life you've dreamed.
- Henry David Thoreau

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

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

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

Happiness is a state of mind.
- Anonymous

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

Envy breeds hate.
- Yiddish Proverb

Everything we say, do, think, and feel
is a product of our personal history
and the collective history of humankind.
Our name for these histories is "prejudice."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Jim Horning

My quiet voice speaks the loudest.
- Richard Carlson

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson

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

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

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

At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Correcting bad habits cannot be done
by forbidding or punishment.
- Robert Baden-Powell (the founder of scouting)

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

Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly

Life is.
- Anonymous

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

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

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