Life Quotes - Page 23

• If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Graduation, Work

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

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• Real life is in love, laughter, and work.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Laughter, Real, Real Life

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1914). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• He too shares his world with the people he loves.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspiration, People, World

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• I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if you think you're going to have those odd moments again, then it makes life wonderful and have a meaning.

  Anthony Burgess

  Mean, Thinking, Littles

  Anthony Burgess (2013). “One Hand Clapping”, p.91, Profile Books

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• Finding relief in your problem is fine, but it will not cure the problem.

  Henry R Brandt

  Relief, Problem, Cures

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• Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Haste Makes Waste, Leisure, Housekeeping

  Henry David Thoreau, Steve Grant (2005). “Daily Observations: Thoreau on the Days of the Year”, p.103, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled, and the hands are dealt. I do not like the way the cards are shuffled, But yet I like the game and want to play.

  Eugene Fitch Ware

  Hands, Games, Play

  Eugene Fitch Ware (1899). “Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill [pseud.]: (A Book of Moods.) ...”

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• Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.

  Alexander Pope

  Kings, Ambition, Pride

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 1

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• Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

  George Eliot

  Real, Too Late, World

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.546, ShandonPress via PublishDrive

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• Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Order, Wind, Everyday

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• Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

  George Santayana

  Anxiety, Honor, Shapes

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• For the Warrior, there is no such thing as an impossible love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspiration, Warrior, Impossible

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• To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Tasks, Honest

  "Across the Plains" by Robert Louis Stevenson, (Ch. XII), 1892.

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• The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.

  Horace

  Home, Night, Shade

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• You would think that everyone would leap at the chance to get rid of sin. Not so. They want relief not a cure.

  Henry R Brandt

  Thinking, Sins Not, Relief

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• Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means.
  [Fr., Qui n'a pas vecu dans les annees voisines de 1789 ne sait pas ce que c'est le palisir de vivre.]

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Mean, Years, Doe

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• There's nothing you can do that can't be done.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Done, Beatles Love

  "Song: 'All You Need Is Love'". 1967.

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• My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.

  Robert Breault

  Book, Understanding, Quests

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• You're just a prayer away from a change of heart.

  Henry R Brandt

  Prayer, Heart, Change Of Heart

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• There is enough time in every day to do God's work...in God's way.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Inspirational, Enough Time, Way

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• Your walk with God does not depend on people, places, things or events.

  Henry R Brandt

  People, Events, Doe

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• Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

  Jonathan Larson

  Basketball, Regret, Missing

  "Rent". Musical by Jonathan Larson, 1996.

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• We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

  Jodi Picoult

  Challenges, Now And Then, Mess

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

  James Joyce

  Inspirational, Running, Home

  James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.329, GENERAL PRESS

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• Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Thinking, Inspire, Okay

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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