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.

It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.
Toussaint Louverture
Toussaint Louverture
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Long live the new flesh.
David Cronenberg
David Cronenberg
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The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
Susanne Katherina Langer
Susanne Katherina Langer
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Each man believes only his experience.
Empedocles
Empedocles
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It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.
Lewis Wolpert
Lewis Wolpert
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Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.
Jessica Chen
Jessica Chen
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Don't compare yourself to others; you have no idea what their journey is all about.
Dawn Abraham
Dawn Abraham
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There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.
Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke
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It will be the positive people who feel the divine order in their lives.
Ron Baratono
Ron Baratono
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The patient needs an experience, not an explanation.
Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
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Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.
Gough Whitlam
Gough Whitlam
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Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different.
Lisa Moore
Lisa Moore
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If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.
Unknown
Unknown
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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Simone Gabrielle Colette
Simone Gabrielle Colette
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I train every day of my life as they have never trained a day in theirs.
Aleksandr Karelin
Aleksandr Karelin
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Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.
Louis Althusser
Louis Althusser
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Never underestimate your ability to make someone else's life better - even if you never know it.
Greg Louganis
Greg Louganis
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Being rich is living life on your own terms - according to your possibilities, not your limitations.
Paul McKenna
Paul McKenna
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Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, provide a library of real-world mentor texts for students to emulate, and give kids the time necessary to enable them to stretch as writers.
Unknown
Unknown
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All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.
John Ralston Saul
John Ralston Saul
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Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.
Eric Davis
Eric Davis
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At least one time in your life, train with the will to die.
Enson Inoue
Enson Inoue
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Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.
Thanh Nhat Hanh
Thanh Nhat Hanh
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In order for us to live within this finely balanced constellation of complex systems, in order for the Earth to show resilience and last for centuries into the future as an environment of human life, we have to embody three things: a respect for Earth systems and their details in balance; a commitment to discovering and sharing the truth and only the truth at all times about all things; and a commitment to doing no harm.
Unknown
Unknown
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You're the author of your own life story.
Elizabeth Acevedo
Elizabeth Acevedo
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The key to happiness is being happy with who you are and enjoying the life you are living.
Robert Morin
Robert Morin
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Live the life you've dreamed.
Jessica Park
Jessica Park
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If we seek first the Kingdom of God and live as we should, all the rest of life seems to fall into place and wonderful things happen.
David B. Haight
David B. Haight
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Every life is precious.
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
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We live in a very complex world.
Vintton Cerf
Vintton Cerf
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This is life, not heaven. You don't have to be perfect.
Gia Carangi
Gia Carangi
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Curiosity is the essence of human existence.
Gene Cernan
Gene Cernan
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The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?
William McFee
William McFee
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Service is not something we endure on this earth so we can earn the right to live in the celestial kingdom. Service is the very fiber of which an exalted life in the celestial kingdom is made.
Marion G. Romney
Marion G. Romney
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I'd rather have the whole world against me than my own soul.
Dr. John
Dr. John
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Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.
Cassandra Clare
Cassandra Clare
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A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
William Least Heat-Moon
William Least Heat-Moon
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If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.
Harry Marks
Harry Marks
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I am a dreamer. Seriously. I'm living on another planet.
Eva Green
Eva Green
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Being your authentic self is the ultimate secret to happiness in life!
Sheri Pink
Sheri Pink
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Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
Salvatore Ottolenghi
Salvatore Ottolenghi
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I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.
Robin Williams
Robin Williams
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You have to live before you die. or you'll die before you live.
Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers
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Online learning can be a lifeline to those who have obstacles, such as geographical distances or physical disabilities.
Paul Lemann
Paul Lemann
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Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty.
Lao Tzu
Lao Tzu
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Gain control of your time, and you will gain control of your life.
John Lindel Reasons
John Lindel Reasons
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Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between.
Winston Bell
Winston Bell
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Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy.
John Howard
John Howard
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