Happy Birthday Quotes

• God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

  Voltaire

  Life, Funny Birthday, Giving

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• Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Friends, Years, Inspirational Birthday

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• Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Book, Live Your Life, Birthday Wishes

  Song: Unwritten, Album: Unwritten, 2004

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• Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Happy Birthday to You!". Book by Dr. Seuss, 1959.

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  The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

  Lucille Ball

  Beauty, Funny Birthday, Funny Inspirational

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• The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

  Sammy Hagar

  Funny Birthday, Years, Inspirational Birthday

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• Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.

  Ernest Holmes

  Happiness, Joy, Wells

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  How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Fun, African American

  Quoted in Garson Kanin, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young (1978)

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• It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

  Jane Fonda

  Inspirational, Being Happy, Single Mom

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

  George Eliot

  Funny, Time, Years

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  The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Growing Up, Believe

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• The golden age is before us, not behind us.

  William Shakespeare

  Afterlife, Age, Golden

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• Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

  Franz Kafka

  Beauty, Inspirational Birthday, Birthday Wishes

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  First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

  George Burns

  Funny, Humor, Zippers

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• We are always the same age inside.

  Gertrude Stein

  Confidence, Positive Thinking, Thoughtful

  "The American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book edited by Clifton Fadiman, p. 946, 1955.

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• Don't just count your years, make your years count.

  Ernest Myers

  Years, Inspirational Birthday, Age

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• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett". Book by Andrew Kilpatrick, 1994.

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• Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Growing Up, Age

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.29, St. Martin's Press

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• In youth we learn; in age we understand.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Life, Wisdom, Women

  "Aphorisms". Book by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1893.

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• There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

  William Barclay

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

  Douglas Pagels

  Friendship, Cute, Best Friend

  Douglas Pagels (2006). “Everyone Should Have a Book Like This to Share with a Special Friend”, p.7, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

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• If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

  John Oates

  Song, Hair, Years

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