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.

A good death does honour to a whole life.
Petrarch
Petrarch
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Without music and dance, life is a journey through a desert.
Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy
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The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.
Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch
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Life is a beautiful struggle...
Talib Kweli
Talib Kweli
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The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.
Albert Hadley
Albert Hadley
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In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.
Nicholas of Cusa
Nicholas of Cusa
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
Unknown
Unknown
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I came into the world either too early or too late; at present, I am good for nothing.
Klemens von Metternich
Klemens von Metternich
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Your body's made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.
Joseph Lindgren
Joseph Lindgren
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All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.
David Walliams
David Walliams
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The world is my country. Science my religion.
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
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We've made too many compromises already, too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again! The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!
Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart
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I will write my way into another life.
Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett
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Neuroplasticity is the property of the brain that enables it to change its own structure and functioning in response to activity and mental experience.
Norman Doidge
Norman Doidge
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Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man?
Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane
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The best revenge is a life well lived.
Chloe Neill
Chloe Neill
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Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.
Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty
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All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, diager, listener, runner. Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.
Richard Adams
Richard Adams
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Massive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the design of the world.
Bruce Mau
Bruce Mau
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Momentum is everything to a Helldiver, to military endeavors, to life. Keep moving and dare someone to get in your path.
Pierce Brown
Pierce Brown
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Kindness is not an act, it's a lifestyle.
Anthony Douglas
Anthony Douglas
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The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Chikara Kakuzo
Chikara Kakuzo
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If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world.
Elaine S. Dalton
Elaine S. Dalton
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The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.
Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster
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Family is the center of life. It is the key to eternal happiness.
L. Tom Perry
L. Tom Perry
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We live in a world alive with holy moments. We need only take the time to bring these moments into the light.
Kent Nerburn
Kent Nerburn
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.
Robert Lanza
Robert Lanza
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There's no reward in life without risk.
Barry Farber
Barry Farber
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Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.
Tommy Douglas
Tommy Douglas
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You have to make your own family, your own life.
Francesca Lia Block
Francesca Lia Block
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Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia. It's the understanding that the universe is fundamentally friendly. It's a mode of training your senses and intellect so you're able to perceive the fact that life always gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.
Rob Brezny
Rob Brezny
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I live in my own little world. But it's ok, they know me here.
Lauren Myracle
Lauren Myracle
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Fold and live to fold again.
Stu Ungar
Stu Ungar
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Life doesn't get easier. We just get stronger.
Karen White
Karen White
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It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.
Brother Yun
Brother Yun
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It is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world, as that God has a church for his mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission – God's mission.
Unknown
Unknown
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Genetics loads the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger.
Caldwell Esselstyn
Caldwell Esselstyn
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Connecting with others is rewarding; it makes us feel like we're not alone in the world.
Jonah Berger
Jonah Berger
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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Colette
Colette
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Today is an opportunity to do something positive. Today is your chance to add new value to your life and to your world. Make the commitment to fill this day with meaningful richness and purposeful effort. This is your day to live, so do so with vigor and enthusiasm.
Robin Sharma
Robin Sharma
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Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.
Gladys Taber
Gladys Taber
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We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.
Louise Glück
Louise Glück
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Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.
Evo Morales
Evo Morales
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Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
Richard P. Feynman
Richard P. Feynman
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To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye
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Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.
Eric Caste
Eric Caste
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Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.
Mary Jeanne Drake
Mary Jeanne Drake
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