Ideal Life Quotes

• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Friendship

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

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• We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Hope, Possibility

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• The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

  Phillips Brooks

  Blood, Life Is, Idealism

  Phillips Brooks (1838). “Sermons”, p.35

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• It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivation, Powerful

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Apr 16, 2012

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• Never give up on your dreams. No matter how many people say it’s impossible, no matter how difficult your journey is, you can create your ideal life. Your heart’s desires can become reality. Make things better now by taking steps every day to get closer to the life you want. And never, ever give up.

  Susane Colasanti

  Dream, Giving Up, Heart

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.128, Penguin

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• Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Change, Motivation

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.520, Simon and Schuster

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• Where there is love there is life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• Now is the time to lead your ideal life.

  Phil Cousineau

  Ideals

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• It isn’t necessary to know exactly how your ideal life will look; you only have to know what feels better and what feels worse…Begin making choices based on what makes you feel freer and happier, rather than on how you think an ideal life should look. It’s the process of feeling our way toward happiness, not the realization of the Platonic ideal, that creates our best lives.

  Martha Beck

  Feel Better, Thinking, Choices

  "How to escape your rat race" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 19, 2009.

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• We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2015

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• You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever, the very next person who you stand behind in line or sit next to on an aeroplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, and all of the things that you've been waiting for to fall into place.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Fall

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• The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances.

  Humphry Davy

  Friends, Life Is, Acquaintance

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• You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Spiritual

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To marry and have children is the ideal life for a woman. What career could ever be as fine? To give the world splendid men and women-isn't that the noblest thing a woman could possibly do?

  Jessie Willcox Smith

  Children, Men, Careers

  Catherine Connell Stryker, Jessie Willcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott, Violet Oakley (1976). “The Studios at Cogslea: Delaware Art Museum, February 20-March 28, 1976”

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• Even if it’s not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.

  Andre Agassi

  Matter, Life Is, Ideals

  Andre Agassi (2009). “Open”, p.359, Vintage

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• I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and would never have to worry.

  Tony Robbins

  Change, Long, People

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• Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is why a poem speaks not of ideal life but of actual life: the angle of a window; the reverberation of streets, cities, rooms; shadows along a wall.

  Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

  Wall, Real, Cities

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• Marc Allen is a living example and proof that the magical approach can help us create our ideal life - easily.

  Pamala Oslie

  Example, Helping, Proof

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• Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. I desire that you should take up the reins of leadership and bring peace and prosperity to the nation by leading ideal lives.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Sacrifice, Compassion, Desire

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• In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artistic Life, Homesick, Longing

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Men, Vision

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.278, Modern Library

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• I have written a new book called 'The Golden Motorcycle Gang.' The premise of the book is taken from actual events in my life. My life has been dedicated to inspiring and motivating others to live their highest vision of their ideal life and offering transformational trainings that help people succeed in all aspects of their lives.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Book, Taken

  "What the 2012 Prophecy Is Really About" by Jack Canfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2011.

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• Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence... If his daily grind is hateful he has his weekly solace in art.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Art, Integrity, Independence

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