Life Quotes - Page 6

• My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

  Charles M. Schulz

  Happiness, Happy, Personality

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• How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

  Annie Dillard

  Wisdom, Travel, Time

  "The Writing Life". Tikkun magazine, Volume 3, Number 6, 1988.

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• Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Motivational, Choices Made, Honor

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• Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

  Florence Nightingale

  Inspirational, Women, Splendid

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• We only get to play this game one time, one life.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Inspirational, Time, Positive Thinking

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• In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

  Kathleen Norris

  Funny, Witty, Money

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• Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.

  Robert Breault

  Opportunity, Life Is

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• Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

  Carl Sandburg

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Happiness, Powerful

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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  A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Meaningful

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

  Ray Bradbury

  Love, Getting Older, Age

  "A man who won't forget Ray Bradbury" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2012.

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• All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Motivational, Don't Give Up

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.131, Open Road Media

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• Silence is the mother of truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Beautiful, Mother, Imagination

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Works”, p.182

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• The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Bullying, Being Yourself, Lonely

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• It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Tragedy, Tragic

  Carl Gustav Jung (1959). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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• Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

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• You may delay, but time will not.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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

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• Love is the bridge between you and everything.

  Rumi

  Love, Yoga, Bridges

  "Overcoming Bigotry With Grace" by Arzu Kaya Uranli, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2015.

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• The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Thinking, Secret, Mind

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People”, p.175, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

  Maya Angelou

  Beautiful, Education, Teacher

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.258, Random House

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• Everything in life... has to have balance.

  Donna Karan

  Inspire, Balance

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• Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Wise, Dream, Bad Ass

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• A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Real, Writing

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• Be the designer of your own destiny.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Motivational, Future, Fate

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