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.

We all take different paths in life. but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.
Tim McGraw
Tim McGraw
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Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.
Primo Levi
Primo Levi
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If a lot of people love each other, the world would be a better place to live.
Tommy Wiseau
Tommy Wiseau
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Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.
Joanne Harris
Joanne Harris
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Life is simple: Make choices and don't look back.
Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu
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Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.
Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq
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It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.
Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini
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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai
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Don't wait for the storms of your life to pass. Learn to dance in the rain.
Steve Rain
Steve Rain
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If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space.
Stephen Hunt
Stephen Hunt
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The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.
Reinhold Messner
Reinhold Messner
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Live life to its fullest, love wastefully, and be all we can be.
John Shelby Spong
John Shelby Spong
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The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.
Don Williams
Don Williams
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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.
Helen Schucman
Helen Schucman
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Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
John Hughes
John Hughes
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Everything that kills me, makes me feel alive.
Ryan Tedder
Ryan Tedder
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Don't waste your time on life.
Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides
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Life is a circle. The end of one journey is the beginning of the next.
Joseph M. Marshall III
Joseph M. Marshall III
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Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on.
Elizabeth Scott
Elizabeth Scott
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Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.
Thor Heyerdahl
Thor Heyerdahl
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Patroclus," Achilles tilted his face up with a gentle finger under his chin. "I would recognise you in total darkness, were you mute and deaf. I would recognise you in another lifetime entirely, in different bodies, different times. And I would love you in all of this, until the very last star in the sky burnt out into oblivion".
Unknown
Unknown
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We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
Konrad Adenauer
Konrad Adenauer
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It's not the end of the world to lose.
Andy Murray
Andy Murray
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For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.
Celia O'Washin
Celia O'Washin
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Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
William Goldman
William Goldman
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My life is pretty hectic. but I'm really into it.
Simon Baker
Simon Baker
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We believe that it takes a strong back and a soft front to face the world.
Joan Halifax
Joan Halifax
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There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't.
Ian Stewart
Ian Stewart
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It is far better to live like a lion for a day than to live like a jackal for a hundred years.
Tipu Sultan
Tipu Sultan
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What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.
Benjamin Bloom
Benjamin Bloom
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Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.
Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Iglesias
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I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
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The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.
Alexander Sutherland Neill
Alexander Sutherland Neill
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Don't downgrade your dream to match your reality. Upgrade your faith to match your destiny.
Devon Franklin
Devon Franklin
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God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh
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Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.
Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo
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There's an African proverb: 'When death finds you, may it find you alive.' Alive means living your own damned life, not the life that your parents wanted, or the life some cultural group or political party wanted, but the life that your own soul wants to live.
Unknown
Unknown
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Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.
John Allen Paulos
John Allen Paulos
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As long as there's life, there's hope.
Tamora Pierce
Tamora Pierce
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If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.
Sydney Banks
Sydney Banks
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Live your life as a lonely stranger. As a wanderer filled with awe and wonder. Leave everything as you found it. For none of it belongs to you. Let the events happen around you, knowing that none of them are happening TO You. And you will live an equanimous life.
Mark Crilley
Mark Crilley
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I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.
Jane De Wolfe
Jane De Wolfe
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Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
Edward Norton
Edward Norton
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Remember, life is just a game and no one gets out alive.
David Lee Roth
David Lee Roth
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The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
James Taylor
James Taylor
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Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.
Rico lver
Rico lver
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The world is full of Kings and Queens. Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
Bonnie James Dio
Bonnie James Dio
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If the world is against the truth, then I am against the world.
Athanasius of Alexandria
Athanasius of Alexandria
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