Life Quotes
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"It is not length of life, but depth of life." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "The best thing you have ever done for me was to help me take my life less seriously. It's only life after all." ~Indigo Girls "The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." ~W. M. Lewis "Who could ask for more than to live the moment you would die for?" ~Unknown "The meaning of life is finding your gift. The purpose is giving it away." ~Joy J. Golliver "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "The years teach much which the days never knew." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "The train of life can be derailed. However, it is our duty to repair the tracks and build a new railroad on which it can travel to whatever destination we choose." ~Mario J. Machon "Life is filled with many gifts-unwrap the ribbons!" ~Unknown "The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes." ~Frank L. Wright "Look to this day, for yesterday is already a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope, look well therefore to this day." ~Such is the Salutation of Dawn "I'd rather live while I am dying than to be dead while I am alive." ~Jimmy Buffet "I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to my fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." ~Stephen Grellet "Life gives you the chance to love, to work, to play and also to look up at the stars." ~Henry Van Dyke "That best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." ~William Wordsworth "I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer." ~Colette "You can live your life as if nothing is a miracle, or you can live it as if everything is a miracle." ~Albert Einstein "Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die." ~Amelia Burr "Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love." ~Unknown "He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much." ~Bessie Stanley "Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough." ~Dinah Shore "May all your life be sweet." ~Helen Waithman "If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day." ~Unknown "This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy." ~Susan Polis Schutz "Where there is room in the heart, there is always room in the house." ~Thomas Moore "The most important journey you may make in life is meeting people half way." ~Unknown "Life is like a movie. Write your own ending. Keep believing. Keep pretending." ~The Muppets "You'll have dreams that come from sorrow, dreams that come from pride, dreams that you'll dream tomorrow, and forget or set aside. But don't be scared of dreaming or believing what you see, for when life starts to turn to hell, it's a dream that sets you free." ~Unknown "Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans." ~John Lennon "Things in life can get lost without any certainty of finding them again ." ~The Wonder Years "Life moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and look around once and awhile, you could miss it." ~Ferris Bueler "Live your life today, for yesterday has gone, and tomorrow may never come." ~Unknown "If people were a little more like angels, Earth might be a little more like Heaven." ~Unknown "And every time I've held a rose it seems I only felt the thorns." ~Billy Joel "The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life." ~Bern Williams "What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end." ~Warren Buffett "If you don't think everyday is a good day just try missing one." ~Cavett Robert "On the dance floor, as in life, you're only as good as your partner." ~Robin Marantz "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget the way you made them feel." ~Unknown "Fate determines who enters our lives. Our actions and reactions determine who stays." ~Unknown "Life is like an onion, you peel it one layer at a time, and sometimes it makes you cry." ~Unknown "Life is not measured by the breath you take, but by what takes your breath away." ~Unknown "Life is about feeling someone push you from behind, and then realizing it was you all along." ~Unknown "Life's a dance you learn as you go." ~Unknown "It's not the footprints you make tomorrow that are important, it's the footprints you leave today." ~Angela Higham "Anger is a thief that steals all the happy moments of life." ~Unknown "Each player must accept the cards life deals to him or her, but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game." ~Voltaire "The greatest thing in the world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we're moving." ~Oliver Wendall Holmes "We need four hugs a day for survival, eight hugs a day for maintenance, and twelve hugs a day for growth" ~Virginia Satir "Life is a tragedy when seen up close, but a comedy in long-shot." ~Charlie Chaplin "The only real failure in life is one not learned from." ~Unknown "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference". ~Robert Frost "Other people may be there to help us, teach us, guide us along our path. But the lesson to be learned is always ours." ~Melody Beattie "Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." ~Antonio Smith "There is so much in the world to care about." ~Laura Dern "An optimist thinks that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true." ~Branch Cabell "In 3 words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It Goes On." ~Robert Frost "Our lives are better left to chance. I could have missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss the dance." ~Garth Brooks "I've shut the door on yesterday and thrown the key away. Tomorrow holds no fears for me since I have found today." ~Vivian Laramore "Life is a game you play. If you lose, you can't start over again." ~Unknown "The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying." ~Unknown "Never regret the choices you make in your life, because at the time you made the best guess you could." ~Unknown "Keep your head up and your arms out. You never know what may fall into your life." ~Unknown "Life may not always be the party you want it to be, but while you're here you might as well dance!" ~Unknown "That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet!" ~Emily Dickinson "Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be." ~Grandma Moses "Life is a song-sing it. Life is a game-play it. Life is a challenge-meet it. Life is a dream-realize it. Life is a sacrifice-offer it. Life is love-enjoy it." ~Sai Baba "We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us...and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty." ~Joseph Fort Newton "Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. O, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind." ~Henri Frederic Amiel "To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life." ~Samuel Johnson "You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments that stand out are the moments when you have done things for others." ~Henry Drummond "Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments." ~Rose Kennedy "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." ~Hellen Keller "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice."~Cherokee Proverb "Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to." ~Arnold Glasow "I would rather have 30 minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special." ~Julia Roberts "Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time."~Cher "Be courageous and be bold. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did." ~Unknown "Half of our mistakes in life arise from thinking when we ought to be feeling, and feeling when we ought to be thinking." ~Unknown "The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn." ~David Russell "Life is a succession of moments; to live each one is to succeed." ~Corita Kent "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." ~William James "Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful." ~Annette Funicello "In the end, I wonder if one of the most important steps on our journey through life is the one in which we throw away the map." ~Loreena McKennitt "Hope for the best; expect the worst. Life is a play and we go unrehearsed." ~Dr. Seuss "This life is a test, it is only a test. Had it been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do." ~Unknown "If ever in your life you dared to dream, then you're halfway there already." ~Unknown "The meaning of life? That's easy. The meaning of life is to be happy, try not to hurt other people and hope that you fall in love." ~Unknown "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the aching, or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain." ~Emily Dickinson "For long you live and high you fly; smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry. For all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be." ~Pink Floyd "Wake up with a smile and go after life. Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it." ~Joe Knapp "The choices that we make are our own. As long as we sacrifice for the things that make us the happiest, we will have led a wonderful life." ~Ben Fisher "In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back." ~Charlie Brown "Live with one eye open to face reality and one eye closed to keep fantasizing." ~Unknown "Everything ends up ok in the end. If it's not ok then it is not the end yet." ~Unknown "Our lives can change with every breath we take." ~Where the Heart Is "You must understand the whole of life, not just part of it. That is why you must read, you must look at the skies, you must sing, you must write poems, you must suffer, and you must understand. For all that is life." ~Unknown "I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next." ~Unknown "Life can be lived in two ways, like a candle burning slow for a long time or like a brilliant comet streaking across the sky. Which are you?" ~Jim Morrison "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forward." ~Unknown "Some things in life are worth waiting for, even if you have to wait forever." ~Unknown "Time goes by so fast. People go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you." ~Unknown "As we grow older, it gets harder to just believe. It's not that we don't want to, but too much has happened and we can't." ~Unknown "Sometimes life hands you situations where all you can do is put one foot in front of the other and live moment to moment." ~Unknown "Life brings simple pleasures to us everyday. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories." ~Cathy Allen "Life is a book on fire, read by the light of its' own burning pages." ~Unknown "Life is like a dance of love, death and pain. May I have this dance?" ~Unknown "Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts." ~Hope Floats "Maybe life isn't supposed to make any sense." ~Andy Kauffman "Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end, so why not make it as far ranging and free as possible." ~Unknown "The world is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel." ~Unknown "Growing up is full of big moments. Some of them you can see coming from a mile away and some you can't see at all." ~The Wonder Years "The secret of life is getting up early. The secret of life is staying up late. The secret of life is try not to hurry, but don't wait, don't wait." ~Faith Hill "A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished." ~Frank Tebbets "Live that your memories will be a part of your happiness." ~Unknown
