Life Quotes - Page 39

• Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Love, Motivational, God

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• The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

  Peter Shaffer

  People, Inspire, Trouble

  Peter Shaffer (1982). “The Collected Plays of Peter Shaffer”, Random House Value Pub

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• The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Fear

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.545, Anchor

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• It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.

  William Barrett

  Inspirational, Elude Us, Vision

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• This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, True Joy, Real Joy

  Man and Superman epistle dedicatory (1903)

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• All living beings, things that move, are equally important, whether they are human beings, dogs, birds, fish, trees, ants, weeds, rivers, wind or rain. To stay healthy and strong, life must have clean air, clear water and pure food. If deprived of these things, life will cycle to the next level, or as the system says, 'die'.

  John Africa

  Inspirational, Weed, Dog

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• There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More”, p.106, Read Books Ltd

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• Life is mostly froth and bubble

  Adam Lindsay Gordon

  Kindness, Bubbles, Life Is

  'Ye Wearie Wayfarer' 'Fytte 8'

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• People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.

  Kevin Smith

  Trust, Failure, Writing

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• Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life- in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thankful

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• Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Track And Field, Pace

  Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.15, Rodale

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• It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.

  George W. Bush

  Baby, Children, Humor

  George W. Bush's remarks at Arlington Heights, Illinois (October 24, 2000), as quoted in "Bush, in his own words" by Jacob Weisberg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

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• I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.

  Joseph Campbell

  Children, Women, Thinking

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.

  Crowfoot

  Change, Death, Running

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  It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Inspirational, Positive, Hope

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• Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

  Samuel Butler

  Wisdom, Art, Drawing

  Notebooks "Life" (1912)

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• I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Faith, Spiritual

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1958). “Riverside sermons”

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• A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Writing, Poetry

  Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”

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• I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Inspiring, Funny Inspirational, Philosophy

  Quoted in Peter Passell and Leonard Ross, The Best (1974)

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• I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

  Grandma Moses

  Positive, Work, Good Day

  "Grandma Moses : My Life's History". Book by Grandma Moses, 1951.

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• Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

  Anne Sexton

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Creativity

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• Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Catholic, Deeds, Cash

  Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, Aeterna Press (1936). “The Moral Universe”, p.52, Aeterna Press

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• Life's a journey, not a destination.

  Steven Tyler

  Journey, Life Journey, Destination

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• With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Inspirational, Helping Others, Volunteer

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.74, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

  Leo Rosten

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

  Leo Rosten (1978). “Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People”

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