Life Quotes - Page 39

• Life itself is the proper binge.

  Julia Child

  Food, Weight Loss, Cooking

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• 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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• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Men

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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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• We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Dream, Sleep

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148

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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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• Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

  Virginia Woolf

  Halos, Lamps, Envelopes

  1919 'Modern Fiction'.

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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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• Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, God, Science

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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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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• You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Eye, Positivity

  Dr. Seuss (1978). “I can read with my eyes shut!”

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

  Anne Sexton

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Creativity

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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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• Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

  Ann Patchett

  Mean, Gone, Way

  Ann Patchett (2008). “What Now?”, Harpercollins

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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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• Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.

  John Steinbeck

  Watches, Lord

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.234, Penguin

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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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• 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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• Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Inspirational, Loneliness, Believe

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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