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 great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony.
Samuel Logan Brengle
Samuel Logan Brengle
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Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible.
Lee Gutkind
Lee Gutkind
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From the stars we come, to the stars we go. Life is but a journey into the unknown.
Walter Moers
Walter Moers
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I see people with Asperger's syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life.
Tony Attwood
Tony Attwood
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Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.
Harold MacMillan
Harold MacMillan
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It is a frightening thought, that in one fraction of a moment you can fall in the kind of love that takes a lifetime to get over.
Beau Taplin
Beau Taplin
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Live in such a way that people who know you but don't know Christ will want to know Christ because of you.
H. David Burton
H. David Burton
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Everyone suffers: life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think you can manage pain and suffering by living in fullness and being true to yourself and all those seemingly vapid platitudes
Unknown
Unknown
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History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.
John Bolt
John Bolt
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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver
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How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life.
Francis Frangipane
Francis Frangipane
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No matter how difficult life becomes, there is always hope.
Drew Pinsky
Drew Pinsky
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Drugs are horrible; I say no to drugs. I've never done drugs in my life.
Vince Staples
Vince Staples
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Advocacy is not just a task for charismatic individuals or high-profile community organizers. Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustices and inequality in the world.
Alice Wong
Alice Wong
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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
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Don't get stressed over the little things and make sure you're enjoying life to the fullest.
Jack Barakat
Jack Barakat
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I like to think of myself as the Rutger Hauer of this show Star Trek: The Next Generation. But then I like to think of myself as Rutger Hauer in real life, strikingly handsome, irresistible to women, an intergalactic enigma.
Brent Spiner
Brent Spiner
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Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
George Carlin
George Carlin
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Life is a team sport; it's not about you.
Sue Enquist
Sue Enquist
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The world is coming to an end. Please log off...
Bob Irwin
Bob Irwin
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Life experience is priceless.
Amanda Seyfried
Amanda Seyfried
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It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.
Myrtle Reed
Myrtle Reed
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I have tried to dismantle you, Gideon Nav! The Ninth House poisoned you, we trod you underfoot - I took you to this killing field as my slave - you refuse to die, and you pity me! Strike me down. You've won. I've lived my whole wretched life at your mercy, yours alone and God knows I deserve to die at your hand. You are my only friend. I am undone without you.
Tamsyn Muir
Tamsyn Muir
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The measure of a man is in the lives he's touched.
Ernie Banks
Ernie Banks
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A man is never too weak or too wounded to fight. If his cause is greater than his own life.
Demosthenes
Demosthenes
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By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding.
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke
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If you feel like a weirdo, it's okay because weirdos rule the world.
Audrey Plaza
Audrey Plaza
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Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.
Alasdair Gray
Alasdair Gray
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It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
Philip Green
Philip Green
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I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the teacher is immortal.
Jamie Escalante
Jamie Escalante
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You shape your own destiny.
Chet Atkins
Chet Atkins
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Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact.
Stephan Jenkins
Stephan Jenkins
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Blaze your own trail in life. Make your own choices and make your own mistakes. It's the only way you'll find your own happiness, not someone else's.
M.J. Lautman
M.J. Lautman
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We only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it.
Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton
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No storm can last forever. It will never rain 365 days consecutively. Keep in mind that trouble comes to pass, not to stay. Don't worry! No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever.
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It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
Jean Nidetch
Jean Nidetch
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Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples.
Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan
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Life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest.
John Walters
John Walters
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We live in a world we ourselves create.
Johann Gottfried Herder
Johann Gottfried Herder
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Karma comes after everyone eventually. You can't get away with screwing people over your whole life. I don't care who you are. What goes around comes around. That's how it works. Sooner or later the universe will serve you the revenge that you deserve.
Jenna Kemp
Jenna Kemp
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Live like there's no tomorrow. Love like you're on borrowed time. Always remember, It's good to be alive.
Jason Gray
Jason Gray
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Life wants to live, but more than that, it wants to love.
Rivera Sun
Rivera Sun
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Some people can touch your life for a brief moment but will leave an imprint for a lifetime.
Lisa Williams
Lisa Williams
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing.
Kate Mara
Kate Mara
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Life is never free of contradictions.
Manmohan Singh
Manmohan Singh
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It's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes.
Travis Tritt
Travis Tritt
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We must remember how to honor and respect life with each breath, step, word, and thought. What you bless blesses you in return. This is the power of reciprocity.
Unknown
Unknown
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