Life Quotes - Page 8

• Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

  Ellen Raskin

  Blow, Self, Wind

  Ellen Raskin (2004). “The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.42, Penguin

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• If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Society, Would Be, Afternoon

  "Life Without Principle". The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, Issue 71, (pp. 484-495), 1863.

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• Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Good Morning, Death, Sleep

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is to be enjoyed, not endured

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Positivity, Bad Ass, Enjoyed

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• Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

  Vernon Howard

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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• Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

  Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari (1999). “Wings of Fire: An Autobiography”, p.90, Universities Press

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• I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

  Tracy Chapman

  Inspirational, Positive, Teacher

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• The Kingdom of God is not a matter of getting individuals to heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the harmony of heaven.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Christian, Religious, Heaven

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• A good sketch is better than a long speech.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, Architecture, Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

  "L'Arche de Noé" by Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, (p. 48), 1968.

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• Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

  Albert Camus

  Stupid, Mean, Mouths

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  Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

  James Dean

  Change, Positive, Leadership

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.

  Robert Breault

  Opportunity, Life Is

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• Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

  Steve Jobs

  Fear, Failure, Fall

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

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  Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

  Saint Augustine

  Change, Beautiful, Daughter

  "Spirituality and Liberation: Overcoming the Great Fallacy". Book by Robert McAfee Brown, p. 136, 1988.

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• LIFE = (L)ive (I)N (F)ull (E)ffect!!!!!!!

  Joseph Simmons

  Positive, Positivity, Hip Hop

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• I rejoice in what I have and I know that fresh new experiences are always ahead. I greet the new with open arms. I trust life to be wonderful.

  Louise Hay

  Positive, Trust, Optimistic

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Dec 15, 2016

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• Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Death, Attitude

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  The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Humor

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Diggers: The Second Book of the Nomes”, p.34, Random House

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• Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Cute Love

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.

  John Boyne

  Thinking, Breathing, Differences

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• You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Best Friend, Marriage

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

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• Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Positive, Hope, Bad Ass

  Margaret Mitchell (1936). “Gone with the wind”, Avon Books

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• At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

  Toni Morrison

  Beauty, Thank You, Photography

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Nov 06, 2011

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• It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.

  Khaled Hosseini

  May, Sometimes, Unfair

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.67, A&C Black

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