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
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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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