Wise Life Quotes

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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Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Steve Jobs

Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Inspirational, Life, Friendship

Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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Work like you don't need the money.

Joseph Joubert

Dance, Work, Hippie

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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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All's well that ends well.

John Heywood

Wise, Wisdom, Drama

John Heywood (1867). “The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations”, p.21

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

Inspirational, Life, Change

Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

Earl Mac Rauch

Happiness, Being Yourself, Travel

Earl Mac Rauch (2001). “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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All is well that ends well

Emily Rodda

Wise, Drama, Italian

Emily Rodda (2008). “The Key to Rondo”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.

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No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

Jim Butcher

Being Yourself, Travel, Clever

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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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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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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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I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Marcus Aurelius

Wise, Philosophical, Math

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Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Bruce Lee

Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.98, Tuttle Publishing

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When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

Sara Teasdale

Life, Wise, Wisdom

Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Steve Jobs

Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

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

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

Life, Wisdom, Travel

"The Writing Life". Tikkun magazine, Volume 3, Number 6, 1988.

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Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Malcolm Forbes

Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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