Life Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Life

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh

Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

 

We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin

Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin

Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus

The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- 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

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca

Make your important choices in life
based on your values and your long-term objectives
rather than on a need for approval.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes

Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain

Life is unlimited - it expands with the generosity,
compassion, inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The being of our mothers is forever branded onto our own being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain

It is easier to put on slippers
than to carpet the entire world
- Al Franken

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran

Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous

Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca

The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale

Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz

Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous

This life is what you make it.
Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes,
it's a universal truth.
But the good part is,
you get to decide how you're going to mess it up.
Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway.
But just remember, some come, some go.
The ones that stay with you through everything -
they're your true best friends.
Don't let go of them.
Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world.
- Marilyn Monroe

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Children are curious and are risk takers.
They have lots of courage.
They venture out into a world
that is immense and dangerous.
A child initially trusts life
and the processes of life.
- John Bradshaw

There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong

Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates

So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller

Fear is the root of the tree of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life ain't always beautiful,
but it's a beautiful ride.
- Gary Allen

Life is soft and smooth when lived gently.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A son is a son till he takes him a wife,
a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
- Irish Traditional

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau

Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin

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

Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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