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.

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.
Norman Wisdom
Norman Wisdom
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In order to do great things, you have to take on challenges in your life. Im doing nothing but taking on different challenges.
Tracy McGrady
Tracy McGrady
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Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.
Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson
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Live each day as if it were the last day of your life because, so far, it is.
Richard Jeni
Richard Jeni
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There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
Ralph Blum
Ralph Blum
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Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose.
Laurence Boldt
Laurence Boldt
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I trust the flow of life.
Marketa Irglova
Marketa Irglova
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No one in your life is with you constantly. No one is completely on your side.
Tim Rice
Tim Rice
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Although an act of help done timely, might be small in nature, it is truly larger than the world itself.
Thirukkural
Thirukkural
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What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.
V.C. Andrews
V.C. Andrews
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Individuality is freedom lived.
John Dos Passos
John Dos Passos
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A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.
Philip Massinger
Philip Massinger
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If you live for people's acceptance, you'll die from their rejection.
Lecrae Moore
Lecrae Moore
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Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips
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Your example, even more than your words, will be an eloquent lesson to the world.
Madeline Sophie Berlioz
Madeline Sophie Berlioz
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In life, there are no mistakes. only lessons.
Vic Johnson
Vic Johnson
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Reconciliation is not to quickly forgive and forget, as if it never happened or we somehow are gifted with a form of amnesia. Reconciliation requires that we remember and change, but with honesty about our experience and curiosity about the humanness of the other whom we fear.
John Paul Lederach
John Paul Lederach
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To live coram Deo is to live one's entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.
C. Sylva
C. Sylva
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Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.
Gorgias
Gorgias
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To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.
Christopher Alexander
Christopher Alexander
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The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom. it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.
Unknown
Unknown
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I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world.
Matthew Henson
Matthew Henson
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Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.
Anna Chung
Anna Chung
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Purpose is what gives life meaning.
Charles Henry Parkhurst
Charles Henry Parkhurst
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There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world even though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind.
Marshall Sylver
Marshall Sylver
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The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.
Mary Balogh
Mary Balogh
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You have an inner light within you that is craving to be shared by those around you, by the world at large - but mostly by you. When you share your unique light, bit by bit, you light up others to light up too. It's a chain reaction. And before long, the whole world lights up. Your light is contagious.
Unknown
Unknown
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If you had one day left to live, what would you do?
Megan Miranda
Megan Miranda
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You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.
John Amodei
John Amodei
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SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
Toni Collette
Toni Collette
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You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world.
Louise Bertilovsky Hevelson
Louise Bertilovsky Hevelson
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Everyone is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking that it's stupid.
Lynda Monkly Hunt
Lynda Monkly Hunt
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The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.
Toby Cole
Toby Cole
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My whole life is a dark room. One big dark room.
Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice
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Life is a pressure cooker and whether you remain serene or become stressed-out depends on how you handle that pressure.
Kevin Leman
Kevin Leman
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I've lived thirty years, and it has been utterly exhausting.
Pleida McHaddien
Pleida McHaddien
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Everything in life is a risk! I mean, you walk out onto the street and
it's a risk! Don't you think?
it's a risk! Don't you think?
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A secular approach is not a dumbing down, it's not reductively identifying Buddhism with one or two particular techniques of meditation, but it is actually a complete world view and way of life in this world.
Stephen Batchelor
Stephen Batchelor
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The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.
William H. Whyte
William H. Whyte
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A man who limits his interests limits his life.
Vincent Price
Vincent Price
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
Zane Grey
Zane Grey
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I Shall Look At The World Through Tears. Perhaps I Shall See Things That, Dry-Eyed, I Could Not See.
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Nicholas Wolterstorff
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The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.
Luke Ford
Luke Ford
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Pain means you're alive. Pain is good. Pain is life.
Barry Lyga
Barry Lyga
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We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent, but as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind.
Harper V. Franklin
Harper V. Franklin
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Don't depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.
Ibn Taymiyyah
Ibn Taymiyyah
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