True Life Quotes

• True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Change, Life Changing, Tiny

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• The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Reality, People

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Nothing...Except My Genius”, p.30, Penguin UK

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• True life is elsewhere

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Life Is, Elsewhere

  Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”

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• What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Life, World, Elsewhere

  Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”

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• Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

  Carol Burnett

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

  "Aaron Carter Is 'Excited' For the Future After Gaining 40 Pounds at Health and Wellness Facility" by Jennifer Drysdale‍, www.etonline.com. December 1, 2017.

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• The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It's really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Doors, Somewhere Else, Arrows

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• All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

  Oscar Wilde

  Forgiving, Sin, Loveless

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.213, Penguin

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• In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

  Aristotle

  True Friend, Comfort, Noble Deeds

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

  Aristotle

  Life, Friendship, True Friend

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.

  John Eldredge

  Lying, Adventure, Desire

  John Eldredge (2007). “Desire: The Journey We Must Take to Find the Life God Offers”, p.165, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

  Max Frisch

  Meaning Of Life, Sound, Stories

  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that's not the half of it. Beyond feeling good, they're also doing good-adding value to the world.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  People, Feel Good, Feelings

  Barbara Fredrickson (2009). “Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life”, p.17, Harmony

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• Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

  Plato

  Children, Passion, Reality

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• I’ve played on literally every brand of US drums out there, and I’ve finally found my home. I’ve been looking for drums like these my whole life. True American hot rod custom kits. From the look and sound to the service and attention, it’s good to now be a part of the SJC family.

  Tre Cool

  Home, Looks, Attention

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• You know, your career is just your career; your life is your life!

  Sissy Spacek

  Careers, Life Is, Knows

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• Don’t be sad by what you see
  It’s true life has it’s miseries
  But one thing’s always worked for me
  Worry ends when faith begins.

  Sami Yusuf

  Inspirational, Life, Sad

  Song: Worry Ends

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• In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Nba, True Joy

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• Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

  Franz Marc

  Life, Letting Go, Dream

  from a note author wrote down on his return from Paris as quoted in "Expressionism" by Wolf-Dieter Dube, 1973, p. 126, 1907.

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• In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way. Of course, it's no accident that things are more likely to go your way when you stop worrying about whether you're going to win or lose and focus your full attention on what's happening right this moment.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Winning, True Joy

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• What you get is a living-what you give is a life.

  Lillian Gish

  Giving, Aging

  Lillian Gish (1969). “The Movies, Mr. Grifith, and Me”

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• Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

  Joe Namath

  Sports, Football, Team

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• Whoever lives true life, will love true love.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Life, Love Life

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.36

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• Half my life is full of sorrow,
  Half of joy, still fresh and new;
  One of these lives is a fancy,
  But the other one is true.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Life, Joy, Sorrow

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1861). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.76

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• Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.

  Patty Duke

  Reality, Hard Life, Parks

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.291, Bantam

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