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.

Death is easy. Living is the hard part.
Amy Harmon
Amy Harmon
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Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.
Maya Banks
Maya Banks
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Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
T.H. White
T.H. White
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Welcome to the wonderful world of economics. Everything precious in life has a cost.
Russ Roberts
Russ Roberts
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No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.
Ernest Cline
Ernest Cline
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Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.
John McAfee
John McAfee
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Ayla, I looked for you all my life and didn't know I was looking. You are everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed of in a woman, and more. You are a fascinating enigma, a paradox. You are totally honest, open; you hide nothing; yet you are the most mysterious woman I've ever met.
Unknown
Unknown
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What you really long for is a deep intimacy with your own experience - the deepest acceptance of every thought, every sensation, every feeling. And that cannot come from outside of yourself.
Jeff Foster
Jeff Foster
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So let the mind flow like water. Face life with a calm and quiet mind and everything in life will be calm and quiet.
Trish Thuy-An
Trish Thuy-An
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Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.
Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson
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It's never too late for a coffee. After all it's morning somewhere in the world.
Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Deschanel
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole
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If our lives and our faith are centered on Jesus Christ and his restored gospel, nothing can ever go permanently wrong. On the other hand, if our lives are not centered on the Savior and his teachings, no other success can ever be permanently right.
Howard W. Hunter
Howard W. Hunter
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And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you.
Harlan Wilde
Harlan Wilde
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The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.
Alan Watts
Alan Watts
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In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none, zero.
Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing
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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
Izaak Walton
Izaak Walton
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Life is problems. Living is solving problems.
Raymond E. Feist
Raymond E. Feist
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If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly.
Orwell Molloy
Orwell Molloy
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Music saved my life and Music saves me still.
Alice Herz-Sommer
Alice Herz-Sommer
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Work hard, save and live within your means.
Bill Bailey
Bill Bailey
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Live by faith and not by fear.
Quentin L. Cook
Quentin L. Cook
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You must work to live, not live to work.
Jane Green
Jane Green
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Life is not a fairground, but a school. - Franz Bardon.
Franz Bardon
Franz Bardon
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Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.
Martin Parr
Martin Parr
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Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler.
Unknown
Unknown
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Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.
Unknown
Unknown
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Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.
Salma Hayek
Salma Hayek
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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
Anna Conan
Anna Conan
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Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It's not the time that matters, it's the person.
David Tennant
David Tennant
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Life is a joke that's just begun.
W.S. Gilbert
W.S. Gilbert
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The brave may not live forever, but the cautious never live at all.
Couragey Alison Haislip
Couragey Alison Haislip
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Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.
Gregory Maguire
Gregory Maguire
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Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Toru Dutt
Toru Dutt
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The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey Bogart
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You only live once, for a very short time. So make every second divine.
Mitch Lucker
Mitch Lucker
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The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.
William McDonough
William McDonough
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Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.
Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson
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Continual improvement is an unending journey.
Lloyd Dobyns
Lloyd Dobyns
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Happy wife, happy life.
Paul Orfalea
Paul Orfalea
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There is no normal life, there's just life.
Doc Holliday
Doc Holliday
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Sustainability is treating ourselves and our environment as if we are to live on this earth forever.
Aaron Wood
Aaron Wood
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There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.
Mark Kozelek
Mark Kozelek
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You are the architect of your own life.
Henry Thomas Hamblin
Henry Thomas Hamblin
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Just for today, I will let go of anger. Just for today, I will let go of worry. Today, I will count my many blessings. Today, I will do my work honestly. Today, I will be kind to every living creature.
Mikao Usui
Mikao Usui
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To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of undeserving people
Charlie Burger
Charlie Burger
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