Top 1081 Life Quotes

Life rarely goes according to plan, and that is exactly what makes it worth examining. These reflections on life touch on time, change, regret, and gratitude: perspective from people who paid attention to how their own stories unfolded.

Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears.
Laird Hamilton
Laird Hamilton
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I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
Venerable Bede
Venerable Bede
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Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.
Julia Alvarez
Julia Alvarez
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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Allen Saunders
Allen Saunders
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If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth.
Saadat Hasan Manto
Saadat Hasan Manto
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Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.
Unknown
Unknown
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I think that everyone has an obligation to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.
Edie Wevermayr
Edie Wevermayr
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Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges...
Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan
Also featured in: adversity time change

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I wish you all a long and happy life.
Alice Sebold
Alice Sebold
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Your life only gets better when you get better.
Brian Tracy
Brian Tracy
Also featured in: change

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That's what lordship is - Christ reigning as supreme authority over our life. Making Jesus Lord of our life is not something passive. It's not a state of being, it's a state of doing. Those whom Jesus recognizes as His own are those who do the will of His Father in heaven.
Matt Carter
Matt Carter
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It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Emiliano Zapata
Emiliano Zapata
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Life is full of surprises.
John Major
John Major
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The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Margaret J. Wheatley
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This is life, and imperfection is beautiful, so don't be afraid of that.
Dylan O'Brien
Dylan O'Brien
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Gratitude connects us to others and feeling gratitude allows us to be our best selves. When we are truly grateful, we can count on living the life we want.
M.J. Ryan
M.J. Ryan
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The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner
Also featured in: time

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Events in life are not negative or positive. They are completely neutral. The universe does not care about your fate; it is indifferent to the violence that may hit you or to death itself. Things merely happen to you. It is your mind that chooses to interpret them as negative or positive.
Stoic
Stoic
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.
Rayyan Mohammad
Rayyan Mohammad
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I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason, bringing something we must learn. And we are led to those who help us most to grow, if we let them and we help them in return.
Robert Brault
Robert Brault
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I like my life alone.
Sarah Silverman
Sarah Silverman
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Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.
Rebecca Wells
Rebecca Wells
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Your destiny is in your hands. Creating the life you want is only, and always, up to you.
Darren Johnson
Darren Johnson
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Everything around us that we call life was made up by people that are no smarter than you.
Ashton Kutcher
Ashton Kutcher
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Pain is life. Life is pain.
Katherine Applegate
Katherine Applegate
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A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.
Laura Hillenbrand
Laura Hillenbrand
Also featured in: adversity wisdom time family

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You have the power to change your thoughts and your thoughts have the power to change your life.
Unknown
Unknown
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Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.
Samuel Fuller
Samuel Fuller
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My life is just a never-ending work in progress.
Richard Simmons
Richard Simmons
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Life is not unfair. Life is what you make of it.
Hrithik Roshan
Hrithik Roshan
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They say the two most important days in a persons life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.
Nikita Duvivier
Nikita Duvivier
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Life is a fashion show, the world is your runway.
Marc Jacobs
Marc Jacobs
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Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.
Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov
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Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.
Susanne Kassem
Susanne Kassem
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Live for the moments you can't put into words.
Kid Rock
Kid Rock
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To the world, you may be one person, but to one person, you may be the world.
Bill Wilson
Bill Wilson
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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.
Roger L'Estrange
Roger L'Estrange
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I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.
Richard Gere
Richard Gere
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You only live once, so enjoy the ride.
Oliver Gaspirtz
Oliver Gaspirtz
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We don't have two lives-a "spiritual" life here and a "regular" life there. Our life in Christ is one unified lifestyle, and it is who we are wherever we are.
Steve Mazyak
Steve Mazyak
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Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit. Enthusiasm is natural; it is being alive, taking the initiative, seeing the importance of what you do, giving it dignity and making what you do important to yourself and to others.
Unknown
Unknown
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Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.
Thomas Keneally
Thomas Keneally
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Long you live and high you'll fly, and smiles you'll give, tears you'll cry and all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
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Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.
Nathan Bradingfield
Nathan Bradingfield
Also featured in: motivation time

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A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body.
Alexander Lowen
Alexander Lowen
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JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.
Douglas Crockford
Douglas Crockford
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Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein
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No one can do everything, but everyone can do something, and together we can change the world.
Ronald J. Sider
Ronald J. Sider
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