Life Quotes - Page 29

• His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

  Edmund Wilson

  Inspire, Style, Orchestra

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  The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Inspirational, Compassion

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• As I don't know about tomorrow, I never save the best for later.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Future, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 24, 2011

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• The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

  Paul Cezanne

  Beauty, Beautiful, Creativity

  "The Gramercy Tavern Cookbook". Book by Dorothy Kalins and Michael Anthony (p.221), www.esquire.com. 2013.

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• I'm leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of a sweet singing river, somewhere in the sun where the mountains make love to the sky.

  John Denver

  Inspirational, Happy, Sweet

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• Life well spent is long.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Long, Wells

  Irma A. Richter (ed.) 'Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci' (World's Classics, 1952)

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• I am an observer of life, a non-participant who takes no sides. I am in the regimented society, but not of it.

  Moondog

  Society, Musician, Sides

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• Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.

  Randall Munroe

  Motivational, Smart, Future

  Webcomic by Randall Munroe, xkcd.com.

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• To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Time, Art

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden: An Annotated Edition”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

  Phillips Brooks

  Dawn, Tasks, Shapes

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• Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

  William Cowper

  Giving, Inspire, Spices

  The Task bk. 2 "The Timepiece" l. 606 (1785) See Behn 1

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• Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Funny, Running, Witty

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• Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

  Shel Silverstein

  Inspirational, Cute, Inspiring

  Shel Silverstein, “Listen To The Mustn'Ts”

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• Life is too short to be small.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

  Brendan Gill

  Motivational, Spiritual, Fun

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• For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Dying, Novelists

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• Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Encouragement, Fear, Self Esteem

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• Has it ever struck you ... that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going? It’s really all memory ... except for each passing moment.

  Eric Kandel

  Inspirational, Time, Memories

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• Let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. Consider none your superior in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen.

  Christopher Paolini

  Revenge, Heart, Men

  "Eragon". Book by Christopher Paolini, 2003.

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• The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.

  Albert Einstein

  Mistake, Learning, Lessons

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• Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Christian

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.69

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• Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Beautiful, Wisdom

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• Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

  T. S. Eliot

  Dream, Twilight, Dying

  "Ash-Wednesday" l. 188 (1930)

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• really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Happiness, Long

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 11, 2014

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