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.

It's Hard to Stay Mad When There's So Much Beauty in the World.
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike
Albert Pike
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The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.
Thomas Malthus
Thomas Malthus
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Every man dies, not every man really lives.
Randall Wallace
Randall Wallace
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Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
William Sloane Coffin
William Sloane Coffin
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Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
Diane Sawyer
Diane Sawyer
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The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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My tattoos are like a scrapbook of my life. Sometimes you don't feel comfortable in your own skin, so covering it up with pictures helps.
Frank Iero
Frank Iero
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Wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence.
Thomas Piketty
Thomas Piketty
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The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible.
Mike Vonn
Mike Vonn
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Are you living in a computer simulation?
Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom
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Let your smile change the world, but don't let the world change your smile.
Connor Franta
Connor Franta
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If you're sincerely seeking God, God will make His existence evident to you.
William Lane Craig
William Lane Craig
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The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
Sello Adar
Sello Adar
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Both of my sisters were the great loves of my life. I couldn't live without them. I didn't want to.
Krystal Sutherland
Krystal Sutherland
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Life is what you make it.
Grandma Moses.
Grandma Moses.
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To live without risk is to risk not living.
Pope Pius XII
Pope Pius XII
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If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.
Sajid Motty
Sajid Motty
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Happy day after Christmas and a merry rest of the year! Even when Christmas is over, the light of the world is still here.
Matthew West
Matthew West
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I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.
Ronan Ryan
Ronan Ryan
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Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.
Ina May Gaskin
Ina May Gaskin
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
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I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in.
Steve McCurry
Steve McCurry
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I don't need a man in my life.
Enya
Enya
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It's your life, live it your way.
Bob Hoskins
Bob Hoskins
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Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.
Julian Kadaby
Julian Kadaby
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You have to stand up for some things in this world.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
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You only have one life to live. Make sure it's yours.
Eleanor Brownn
Eleanor Brownn
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Send me flowers while I'm alive. They won't do me a damn bit of good after I'm dead.
Dorothy Crawford
Dorothy Crawford
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Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow
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Why do people measure life by the years instead of how good the years were?
Gabriel Iglesias
Gabriel Iglesias
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Your choices are made in a moment, and yet their consequences transcend a lifetime.
M.J. DeMarco
M.J. DeMarco
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You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.
Joan Miro
Joan Miro
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What the hell am I doing with my life?
Ben Stiller
Ben Stiller
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Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.
Michael J. Gelb
Michael J. Gelb
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The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and to be alive consists in beholding God.
Irenaeus of Lyons
Irenaeus of Lyons
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Life is a journey, not a destination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It's better to die than to never really have lived.
William Wallace
William Wallace
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Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living.
Mother Jones
Mother Jones
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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
Joseph Chilton Pearce
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I just live one day at a time.
Rick James
Rick James
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Life is a gift. Never take it for granted.
Sasha Azevedo
Sasha Azevedo
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Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.
Ray Hubbard
Ray Hubbard
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Advent is patience. It's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.
Stanley Hauerwas
Stanley Hauerwas
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My life is a beautiful struggle.
Hope Solo
Hope Solo
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Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.
Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector
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Geography is destiny.
Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese
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