Meaningful Life Quotes

• The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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  Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

  Marie Curie

  Life, Encouraging, Being Strong

  "Our Precarious Habitat". Book by Melvin A. Benarde, 1970.

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  When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

  Tennessee Williams

  God, Meaningful, Work

  "The Theatre of Tennessee Williams". Volume II,

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• The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

  William Morris

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.94, Cambridge University Press

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• You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  "Intuitions" by Albert Camus, Youthful Writings, 1976.

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• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

  Tim Field

  Meaningful, Being Yourself, Bullying

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• A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  Walter Bagehot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.272

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• Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise.

  George Gershwin

  Music, Jazz Hands, Cool Jazz

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

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• To be free is to have achieved your life.

  Tennessee Williams

  Life, Live By, Life Changing

  Tennessee Williams (1975). “Memoirs”, p.230, New Directions Publishing

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• In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

  Tom Bodett

  Life, Encouraging, Education

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  Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Life, Beautiful, Being Yourself

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

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• Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Change, Positive, Inspirational Life

  Alice Schwarzer, Simone de Beauvoir (1984). “Simone De Beauvoir Today”, Not Avail

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• Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

  William James

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.80, The Floating Press

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  Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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• You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Meaningful

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• Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

  Norman Cousins

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

  Ashley Smith

  Life, Beauty, Dream

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• Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.

  Marie Curie

  Fear, Understanding, Great Science

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• The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

  Alfred Adler

  Self Esteem, Life Is Good, Danger In Life

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• For everything you gain, you lose something.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  I Miss You, Missing You, Missing Someone

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.267, Рипол Классик

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• For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, I Miss You

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.72, Bantam Classics

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• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Smile, Graduation

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