Things In Life Quotes - Page 17

• With all things in life, we do not get what we ask for, we get what we expect.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  All Things, Asks

  Iyanla Vanzant (2008). “Tapping the Power Within: A Path to Self-Empowerment for Women”, p.145, Hay House, Inc

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• I am a human being, not a human doing. Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't . . , you aren't.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self Worth, Wells, Humans

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Sep 19, 2011

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• The best things in life are gifts from the One who steadfastly loves us. But an important question to ask ourselves is this: are we in love with God or just His stuff?

  Francis Chan

  Important, Stuff, God Love

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.64, David C Cook

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• Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.

  Dan Simmons

  Pain, Interesting, Attention

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Rise of Endymion”, p.140, Spectra

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• Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.

  Katharine Susannah Prichard

  Art, Sacrifice, Important

  "100 Great Australians". Book by Robert Macklin, 1983.

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• Love is the most important thing in life. If you don't have (a relationship), you're always looking for one.

  Sheryl Crow

  Relationship, Love Is, Important

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• A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.

  Lawrence Summers

  Thinking, Thumbs, Faster

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• Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Dream, Reading, Keys

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• If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Errors, Missing, Risk

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• Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.

  John McAfee

  Life Is, Making Money, Easy

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• Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness.

  Democritus

  Men, Intelligent, Order

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 155), 1948.

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• Every day is the same thing out the door Feel further away then ever before Some things in life, it gets too late to learn Well, I'm lost somewhere I must have made a few bad turns

  Bob Dylan

  Life, Doors, Too Late

  Song: Highlands

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• Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.

  Jose Saramago

  Dresses, Naked, Body

  "All the Names" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costam London: The Harvill Press, (p. 92), 2003.

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• Best things in life aren't things.

  Mike Ness

  Inspirational, Family, Happiness

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• There are few things in life that are harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate.

  Barack Obama

  Important, Birth, Certificates

  Barack Obama's Speech at White House Correspondents' Dinner, www.c-span.org. May 1, 2010.

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• No matter who you are it's the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything.

  Ronaldinho

  Believe, Simple, Matter

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• I don't think it's the most important thing in life to fit it. I think it's the most important thing in life to dance to the beat of your own drum and to look like you're having more fun than the people who look cool like they fit in.

  Taylor Swift

  Fun, Thinking, People

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• My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Love Is, Favorites Things

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• If you want the best things in life you have to earn them for yourself.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Want, Best Things, Ifs

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

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• If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

  Bonnie Hunt

  Fall, I've Learned, One Thing

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

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• As a person, I am still very middle class. People don’t realise these things. Most of the black suits that I wear are the same. All the designer clothes I have are actually from my films. I don’t dream of Rolls Royce and things like that… People are kind enough to me to give me the nicest things in life, but it doesn’t mean that I’m used to them.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Dream, Mean, Class

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• I now see what the really important things in life are and they don't relate to what I do for a living.

  Doyle Brunson

  Important, Relate, Important Things

  "Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Tells His Story". Interview with Nolan Dalla, www.pokerschoolonline.com.

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• What I believe...about more sleep than is needful concerns the individual who goes far beyond the need, developing slothful and lazy habits, which deaden the senses and become a retarder of accomplishment. To overcome these things in life requires discipline and restraint.

  Alvin R. Dyer

  Believe, Sleep, Discipline

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• The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

  Socrates

  Life, Important, Principles

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• There is no such thing in life as no pain and no disappointment.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Pain, Disappointment, Women

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