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.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
Mel Carnevale
Mel Carnevale
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Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes with which Christ looks out his compassion to the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman
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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis
Albert Ellis
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Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.
Unknown
Unknown
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You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
Jojo Moyes
Jojo Moyes
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
Catherine of Siena
Catherine of Siena
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In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer
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A good life is a collection of happy memories.
Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley
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The only thing constant in life is change.
François de La Rochefoucauld
François de La Rochefoucauld
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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as they are.
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi
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The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.
David Icke
David Icke
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Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what's done for Christ will last.
Charles Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon
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God's plans for your life far exceed the circumstances of your day.
Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio
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Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn.
Holly Black
Holly Black
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Life's a marathon. not a sprint.
Phillip C. McGraw
Phillip C. McGraw
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What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.
David Attenborough
David Attenborough
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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy
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Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz
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One person can change the world.
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks
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Our lives change when our habits change.
Matthew Kelly
Matthew Kelly
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The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
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Did you think you could stop me? I'll burn the world down to save her.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
Jennifer L. Armentrout
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
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The only true test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.
Naval Ravikant
Naval Ravikant
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Think of everyday life as karate training.
Gichin Funakoshi
Gichin Funakoshi
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Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Live your best life!
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey
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Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz
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Live life for the moment, because everything else is uncertain.
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
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Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Gene Roddenberry
Gene Roddenberry
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton
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Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson
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Later that night, I held an atlas on my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world, and whispered, 'where does it hurt?' It answered, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.
Warren St. John
Warren St. John
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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins
Norman Cousins
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We live for books.
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson
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Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman
Howard Thurman
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After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.
Walt Disney
Walt Disney
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When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, 'Wow, that was an adventure,' not, 'Wow, I sure felt safe.'
Tom Preston-Werner
Tom Preston-Werner
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You can only have two things in life, reasons and results. Reasons don't count.
Robert Anthony
Robert Anthony
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Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.
Alan Watts
Alan Watts
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Maimonides
Maimonides
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