This Life Quotes - Page 2

• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Loneliness, Sadness

  "The Gay Science". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 341, 1882.

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• Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Happy

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• Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Attitude, Positive Thinking

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

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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

  Life, Thank You, Spiritual

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

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• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

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• Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Life, Humor

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  If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

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• For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

  James Patterson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  James Patterson (2004). “Sam's letters to Jennifer”

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
  In feelings, not in figures on a dial.

  Philip James Bailey

  Time, Years, Feelings

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.85

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• Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Positive Thinking, Addiction

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• Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Purpose, Ifs

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• We only have one life and one body to care of, and we better do it right. You never know what tomorrow may bring and so we better live this life the best we can and be grateful for everything we have.

  Novak Djokovic

  Life Is Too Short, Grateful, Life Is Short

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• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Being Happy, Uplifting

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• Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

  Boris Pasternak

  Life, Journey, Men

  Doctor Zhivago ch. 9 (1958) (translation by Max Hayward and Manya Harari)

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• This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.

  Muhammad Ali

  Life, Wisdom, Real

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• Life is a series of collisions with the future.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspirational, Life, Short Life

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

  Robert Jones Burdette

  Meaningful, Good Life, Live Life

  "Mark Twain: Selected Writings of an American Skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

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• Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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