Life Quotes - Page 6

• Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• It is up to you to give life a meaning.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Giving, Up To You

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• Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens.

  Jason Calacanis

  Stars, Simple, Thinking

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• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

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• A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Positive, Wells

  "Jean Paul Friedrich Richter" (1827)

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• In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Sad, Wisdom, Educational

  Charles M Schulz (2015). “You're Golden, Charlie Brown”, Ballantine Group

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• Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals" by Saul Alinsky, (pp. 24-25), 1971.

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• The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

  Mary Astell

  Matter, Too Short, Life Is Too Short

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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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• When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

  John Dryden

  Cheating, People, Deceit

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• Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

  R. D. Laing

  Love, Psychology, Worth Living

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• Art is the proper task of life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Fools Day, Tasks

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• To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Giving, Inner Peace, Way

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.95, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Reality, Banquets, Late

  "Banquet of Consequences". Speech by Bart Chilton, Commissioner Commodity Futures Trading Commission before the Environmental Markets Association 12th Annual Fall Conference, Seattle, Washington, www.cftc.gov. November 19, 2008.

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• Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Motivational, Dance, Spiritual

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.52, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

  William Faulkner

  Art, Moving, Mean

  1956 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

  William James

  Change, Positive, Success

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.294, Penguin

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• Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Unique, World

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.172, Penguin

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• Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Success, Attitude

  James Allen (2016). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.7, Xist Publishing

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• Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Wind, Sailing

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• The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning, middle, and end of all things.

  Socrates

  Soul, Beginning Middle And End, Ends

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• None but ourselves can free our minds.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Music, Song

  "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)

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• The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.

  Stephen King

  Hate, Love You, People

  STEPHEN KING (1977). “THE SHINING”

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• There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Depression

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