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.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
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Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
Martin Buber
Martin Buber
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Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.
Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt
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God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.
Paul David Tripp
Paul David Tripp
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You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you.
Nirmala Srivastava
Nirmala Srivastava
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The most important thing in life will always be family. The people right here, right now.
Vin Diesel
Vin Diesel
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Humanity, take a good look at yourself. Inside, you've got heaven and earth, and all of creation. You're a world - everything is hidden in you.
Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam
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Live a life less ordinary.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch
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Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. When you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Rachel Naomi Remen
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Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.
Andre Malraux
Andre Malraux
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Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.
Unknown
Unknown
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When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
Frederic Bastiat
Frederic Bastiat
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If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.
Mikhail Tal
Mikhail Tal
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Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
Amy Poehler
Amy Poehler
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Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and heal and smile during the ordinary. That's just living heart-breaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it's breathtakingly beautiful.
Unknown
Unknown
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Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.
Oody Partin
Oody Partin
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My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
Billy Graham
Billy Graham
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See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see - out of fear, conformity, or laziness. See the whole world anew each day.
Pash Adams
Pash Adams
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See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it.
Rhonda Byrne
Rhonda Byrne
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After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman
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There are no regrets in life, just lessons.
Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Aniston
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Life is about balance. Be kind, but don't let people abuse you. Trust, but don't be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself.
Zig Taylor
Zig Taylor
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I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.
Jewel
Jewel
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You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
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We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering.
Brene Brown
Brene Brown
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The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Live your life to the fullest.
Shakira
Shakira
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Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul.
John Frusciante
John Frusciante
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I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations. And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.
Frederick Salzman Rinzai
Frederick Salzman Rinzai
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In a world where you can be anything, choose to be kind.
Nitiya Prakash
Nitiya Prakash
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Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already.
Dave Willis
Dave Willis
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Be kind to yourself so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.
Mohnish Pabrai
Mohnish Pabrai
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We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee
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The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.
A.R. Bernard
A.R. Bernard
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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kamij Miyazawa
Kamij Miyazawa
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The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Christopher McCandless
Christopher McCandless
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We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad
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Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
Zeno of Citium
Zeno of Citium
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Do not pray for an easy life. pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
@wisdom
@wisdom
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United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.
Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry
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When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Scott Hamilton
Scott Hamilton
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Workers of the world unite: you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
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