Life Quotes - Page 9

• This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

  Richard L. Evans

  Waiting, Passing, Passings

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• Life is too short to be little.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Littles, Too Short

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.255

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• While there's life, there's hope.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hope, Latin, Philosophical

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1880). “The Life and Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: Being a New Translation of the Letters Included in Mr. Watsons's Selection”

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• The fastest way to become the master of your thoughts and emotions is through challenging situations. If your life is going along fairly smoothly, there are not the same opportunities that enable you to strengthen your power and become the master of your thoughts and emotions. You see, even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Opportunity

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Dream, Awake At Night

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.170, Yale University Press

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• The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Positive, Inspiring, Women

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• Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Cherish Every Moment, Quiet Moments, Live In The Moment

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• I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

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• If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

  Huey Newton

  Failure, Struggle, Ifs

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• He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Forgiveness, Sublime, Forgiving

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• There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the country, some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Country, Military

  News conference, 21 Mar. 1962

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• If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Wind, Focus

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• Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Powerful

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2013

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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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• Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.

  Cyril Connolly

  Mazes, Walks, Wrong Turn

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• Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, God, Faith

  Victor Hugo (1898). “From exile, and after the fall of the Empire”

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• All these people, all these things came into my life, and they're all blessings from God. And now that I look back, I realize that these are His fingerprints all over my story.

  Jeremy Lin

  God, Christian, Blessing

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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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• The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Philosophical, Wrestling

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), George Maximilian Anthony Grube (1963). “The meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Sweet, Lying, Loving Yourself

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Positive, Philosophy

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• There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.

  Judith McNaught

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Judith McNaught (2003). “Remember When”

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• Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles... Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

  Helen Keller

  Motivational, Success, Beautiful

  Helen Keller's Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, July 8, 1896.

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• There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Thank You, Spiritual, Encouragement

  "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: Messenger of Love" by Lennie Kronisch in Yoga Journal, Issue 11 (pp. 18-20), November/December 1976.

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• Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Courage, Imagination

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