My Life Is Changing Quotes

If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.

John Spence

Life Changing, Thinking, World

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Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody.

John Spence

Being Yourself, Life Changing, Thinking

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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Albert Einstein's letter to his son Eduard (February 5, 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson "Einstein: His Life and Universe" (p. 367), 2007.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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

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Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

Terry Pratchett

Change, Travel, Life Changing

Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.68, Random House

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Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Gerard Way

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.

John Eliot

Inspirational, Change, Happiness

John Eliot (2006). “Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

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No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.

John Spence

Life Changing, Fighting, Thinking

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Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the truth is, it always comes from within.

John Spence

Life Changing, Thinking, People

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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Harold Wilson

Change, Life Changing, Teaching

Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, quoted in "The New York Times", (p. 12), January 24, 1967.

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I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Winston Churchill

Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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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.

Steve Jobs

Motivational, Business, Work

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Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

Terry Pratchett

Travel, Adventure, Times Are Changing

Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.68, Random House

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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Leo Tolstoy

Change, Life Changing, True Life

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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

Harold Wilson

Change, Life Changing, Acceptance

Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, quoted in "The New York Times", (p. 12), January 24, 1967.

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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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Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.

John Spence

Life Changing, Thinking, Upset

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Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.

John Spence

Encouraging, Uplifting, Life Changing

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Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.

John Spence

Lonely, Life Changing, Being Alone

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France

Life, Change, People Changing

Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.186, Anatole France

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational, Life, Change

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.111, Princeton University Press

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Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

C. S. Lewis

Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Unknown

Inspirational, Friendship, Lonely

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