Life Wisdom Quotes - Page 2

• The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Trying, Life Is, Masters

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• Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

  Saint Augustine

  Motivational, Faith, Time

  "Sermons to the People". Book by Augustine of Hippo (Sermon 80:8),

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• To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.

  Bernard Emond

  Motivational, Addiction, Tests

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• The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Moving, Thinking, Addiction

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• Life unexamined, is not worth living.

  Democritus

  Live Life, Worth Living

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• If you are a good student of life, wisdom becomes your rain, falling heavily on your mind!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Rain, Fall

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• The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.

  James Agee

  Life, Goal, Addiction

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• How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Kindness, Thinking

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• When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial

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• For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. 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.

  James Patterson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  James Patterson (2004). “Sam's letters to Jennifer”

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• When we stay close to the wisdom of our knowing, seeking solutions to our problems in the sanctuary of the heart and not in the vanity of the mind, then we can pretty much trust in the unfolding, mysterious wisdom of life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Vanity, Knowing

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  The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

  William James

  Life, Change, Positive

  "Living the Abundant Life". Book by Thomas S. Monson, 2004.

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• People fail forward to success.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspiration, People, Addiction

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.125, John Wiley & Sons

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• We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.

  George Matthew Adams

  Thinking, Addiction, Accomplish

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Motivational, Lying, Addiction

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• But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? - and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Mistake, Should Have, Acting

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “Love Over Scotland”, p.302, Anchor

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• Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1838). “The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Preface. Formula fidei de ss. Trinitate. Nightly prayer. Notes on the book of common prayer; Hooker; Field; Donne; Henry More; Heinrichs; Hacket; Jeremy Taylor; The pilgrim's progress; John Smith. Letter to a godchild”, p.186

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• The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.

  Pablo Casals

  Inspirational Life, Love Life, Love Is

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• The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Integrity

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• Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Positive Thinking, Addiction

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• Anybody can do anything that he imagines.

  Henry Ford

  Imagination, Addiction, Imagine

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• Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill.

  Jacob Braude

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Thinking

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• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

  Francis Kelley

  Men, Addiction, Belief

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