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.

Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Alfred Thayer Mahan
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Live every week like it's shark week.
Tracy Morgan
Tracy Morgan
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I am the luckiest man in the world.
Chuck Pagano
Chuck Pagano
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
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Sometimes life is very hard. Sometimes it demands so much of you that you start losing pieces of yourself as you stretch out to give what the world wants to take.
Amy Henry
Amy Henry
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We're all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish in this remarkable ride.
Dominic Green
Dominic Green
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Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity – the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom – and reconnects with that world of Spirit.
Malidoma Patrice Somé
Malidoma Patrice Somé
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Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.
David Almond
David Almond
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The horrors that we have seen, the still greater horrors we shall presently see, are not signs that rebels, insubordinate, untamable men are increasing in number throughout the world, but rather that there is a constant increase in the number of obedient, docile men. - GEORGE BERNANOS.
Unknown
Unknown
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If we can't take Christ to them by preaching, we'll take Christ to them by living.
Brother Andrew
Brother Andrew
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To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job.
Chin-Ning Chu
Chin-Ning Chu
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For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.
Marcus Samuelsson
Marcus Samuelsson
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You do not find the happy life, You make it.
Camilla Eyring Kimball
Camilla Eyring Kimball
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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe: the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.
Theodore Parker
Theodore Parker
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Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.
Martial
Martial
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We spend almost all our time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to our conversation with ourselves. It's not always what we hear but it's our inner conversation with ourselves that shapes our life.
Robert Thurman
Robert Thurman
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All life pulsates in time to the Earth and our artificial fields cause abnormal reactions in all organisms. Increasing electropollution could set in motion irreversible changes leading to our extinction.
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Unknown
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Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.
Stephane Mallarme
Stephane Mallarme
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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Three most important things in life, surf, surf and surf.
Jack O'Neill
Jack O'Neill
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If you are not learning, you are not living.
Kevin James
Kevin James
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Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.
Prince Charles
Prince Charles
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We're all alone in this world.
Gillian Jacobs
Gillian Jacobs
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Remind me to make you smile like that again, when you aren't dying, and I have all the time in the world to memorise it.
Lauren Reber
Lauren Reber
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The journey is what brings us happiness, not the destination.
Dan Millman
Dan Millman
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Cricket was my reason for living.
Harold Larwood
Harold Larwood
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The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.
Yasmina Rehman
Yasmina Rehman
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Though we live in a world that dreams of ending, that always seems about to give in, something that will not acknowledge conclusion insists that we forever begin.
Unknown
Unknown
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Life is full of challenges and surprises.
Jit Sander
Jit Sander
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The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder
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The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
Jack Hanna
Jack Hanna
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We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own.
Maurice Samuel
Maurice Samuel
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Yoga is a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are.
Erich Schiffmann
Erich Schiffmann
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The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem.
JimSasser
JimSasser
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You're either growing or dying. Stagnation does not exist in the universe.
Steve Siebold
Steve Siebold
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Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally a desire for Him.
Alexander Schmemann
Alexander Schmemann
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Always live your life with your biography in mind.
Marisha Pessl
Marisha Pessl
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Always remember: a brand is the most valuable piece of real estate in the world; a corner of someone's mind.
John Hegarty
John Hegarty
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Mental health and mental balance is critical to leading a healthy life.
Marie Hemingway
Marie Hemingway
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I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.
Meg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff
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Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.
Richard Serra
Richard Serra
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Dare to fail. If you never fail, you've never taken risks, and that's no way to take on this life.
Richie Sambors
Richie Sambors
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The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.
Storm Jameson
Storm Jameson
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The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking it is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn.
Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Kunitz
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Enjoy life, study hard, play hard, be kind to other people, set high standards, and don't be afraid to say "No."
Nia Long
Nia Long
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No one here gets out alive.
Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison
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The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning, the more you struggle, the faster you sink.
George Orwell
George Orwell
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Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what's right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.
Andre Gide
Andre Gide
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