Important Life Quotes

• The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  "Tuesdays with Morrie". Book by Mitch Albom, 1997.

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• Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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  To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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  The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

  Havelock Ellis

  Life, Moving On, Letting Go

  Havelock Ellis (1973). “Affirmations”, Milford House Publishing Company

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• Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Love, Inspirational Life, Cute Life

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.317, Faber & Faber

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Inspiring

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• My family's the most important thing in my life.

  Joe Namath

  Family, Winning, Relatives And Friends

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• I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

  Barbara Bush

  Family, Thinking, Important

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• Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what we’ve done in this life has been good. It was simple; it was modest. Everyone creates their own story and moves on. That’s it. I don’t feel particularly important. What we create is not important. We’re very insignificant.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Moving, Optimistic, Simple

  "Why Oscar Niemeyer is king of curves" by Tom Dyckhoff, www.thetimes.co.uk. December 12, 2007.

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• When I think of all the things that tossed my journey off its track, I realize something incredibly important: Life's setbacks only changed my path and the timing of my arrival. They never changed my destination.

  John Foley

  Journey, Thinking, Track

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• We don't let a car company just throw out a car and start driving it around without checking that the wheels are fastened on. We know that would result in death; but for some reason we have no hesitation at throwing out some algorithms untested and unmonitored even when they're making very important life-and-death decisions.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Car, Life And Death, Decision

  Source: www.salon.com

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• It is very difficult to make really big, important, life-changing decisions because we are all susceptible to a formidable array of decision biases. There are more of them than we realize, and they come to visit us more often than we like to admit.

  Dan Ariely

  Life Changing, Decision, Important

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• The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.

  Eric Hoffer

  Country, Numbers, People

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• Education does loads of things for girls that wont surprise you at all - it provides self-esteem, teaches important life skills, and offers the kinds of choices a good education can give anyone.

  Richard E. Robbins

  Girl, Self Esteem, Skills

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• I will do whatever I have to do to reach people with the things I believe are important. Life is too short not to do everything you can.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Believe, Life Is Too Short, People

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• I want to lead an important life. I want to do it because I was born a human being.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Important, Want, Born

  Eiji Yoshikawa (1981). “Musashi”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be space and that it represents an important life insurance for our future survival, as it could prevent the disappearance of humanity by colonizing other planets.

  Stephen Hawking

  Believe, Race, Space

  "'Colonize planets to save the human race' – Professor Stephen Hawking", www.rt.com. February 20, 2015.

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• Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.

  Shannon Hale

  Real, Character, Years

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.9, A&C Black

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• I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

  Brother Ali

  Life Lesson, White, Community

  Interview with David Brusie, music.avclub.com. April 26, 2007.

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• 'Marley' does what is probably the best possible job of documenting an important life.

  Roger Ebert

  Jobs, Important, Doe

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.379, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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