Life Quotes (3)
Quotes about Life

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi

Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
- Anonymous

Don't let the past drive life - choose life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe

If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
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Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond

Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain

Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.

Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz

The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear,
and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain

Know that joy is a choice, but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
- Frank Herbert

If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu

It's the Consciousness with which we participate
in activities that makes the difference.
- Michael Beckwith

Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous

The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The person who you're with most in life is yourself
and if you don't like yourself,
you're always with somebody you don't like.
- Marc S. Lewis

Live wild, life free, live as master of your own fate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone
what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
- Charles M. Schulz in his Peanuts cartoon

He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali

The things that make me different are the things that make me.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Begin your life today, and again tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter

You will always have habits -
things you do regularly and without conscious thought -
but you do have the ability to CHOOSE your habits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne

Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.
- Ernest Holmes

When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau

One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe

You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau

Know that you sail the seas of life
as the master of your own ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus

Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau

Life should not be a journey to the grave
with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well preserved body,
but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
and loudly proclaiming, "Wow! What a Ride!"
- Hunter S. Thompson

Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell

As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Today is a day to honor other cultures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney

We are what we pretend to be,
so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver

Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt

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