Life Quotes - Page 26

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Being Alone, Writing, Creativity

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• Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.46, St. Martin's Press

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• When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

  Helen Rowland

  Hate, Work, Realizing

  Reflections of a Bachelor Girl (1909)

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• Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that propel life.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Character, Science, Cells

  Bruce H. Lipton (2015). “The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles”, p.12, Hay House, Inc

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• Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Past

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• Your life began in the heart & mind of the Infinite. Mentally relive the days when as a child you ran free, when there were infinite possibilities of what you could feel, accomplish, and see in the world. Allow for the energy of your remembered freedom to thunder through you, and you will free your self from the false obstacles your adult.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Freedom, Children

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Feb 08, 2013

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• Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

  Karen Horney

  Inspirational, Funny, Therapists

  Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neuroses conclusion (1945)

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• Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Future, Heart

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

  Norman Mailer

  Love, Change, Death

  1959 'Hip, Hell, and The Navigator', in Western Review, no. 23, Winter.

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• He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspiring, Dream, Inspiration

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Money, Men, Creating

  "Economic Sophisms". Book by Frédéric Bastiat, Second series, 1848.

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• Don't LIVE the same year 75 times and call it a Life

  Robin Sharma

  Time, Travel, Powerful

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Jun 03, 2016

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• Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

  Ashley Smith

  Beauty, Dream, Appreciation

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• I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Happiness, Attitude, Events

  "Lightning Fast Enlightenment: A Journey to the Secrets of Happiness". Book by Jordan S. Metzger, p. 9, 2000.

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• To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

  1733 Poor Richard's Almanack, Jun.

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• A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

  Lois Wyse

  Friendship, Best Friend, Future

  Lois Wyse (1996). “Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration”

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• Keep passing the open windows.

  John Irving

  Depression, Encouraging, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by John Irving from Aug 06, 2014

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• Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Inspirational, Happiness, Death

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• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Travel, Memorable

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.479, Courier Corporation

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• When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

  Sara Teasdale

  Wise, Wisdom, Truth

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• Once out of all the gray days of my life I have looked into the heart of reality; I have witnessed the truth; I have seen life as it really is-ravishingly, ecstatically, madly beautiful, and filled to overflowing with a wild joy, and a value unspeakable.

  Margaret Prescott Montague

  Beautiful, Heart, Reality

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  I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

  Tony Robbins

  Happiness, Success, Dream

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Atheism, Had Enough, Ends

  Speech to Bar Association of Boston, Boston, Mass., 7 Mar. 1900

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• And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

  "Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

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