Inspirational Life Quotes - Page 22

• The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

  Cesare Pavese

  Life, Time, Party

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• One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

  Antonio Porchia

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

  Adrienne Rich

  Inspirational, Time, Pain

  1971 Talk delivered to Forum on'TheWomanWriter in the Twentieth Century'. Collected as'WhenWe Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision', in College English, Oct1972.

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• I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

  Tony Robbins

  Positive, Inspiring, Success

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 24, 2015

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• Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

  Letter in New York Times 29 Apr. 1930

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• Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Friendship, Relationship, Positive

  "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women" by Rosalie Maggio, p. 130, 1992.

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• A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Simple, Thinking, Simplicity

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

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• Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Life, Years, Sometimes

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• Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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  For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

  Carl Sagan

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

  George Sand

  Life, Writing, Novel

  "Metella". Ch. 1. Book by George Sand, 1833.

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• Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

  Carl Sandburg

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

  George Santayana

  Life, Predicaments, Spectacles

  Articles and Essays

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• We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

  Virginia Satir

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  "Magic Touch: Six Things You Can Do to Connect in a Disconnected World" by Carolyn Rosenblatt, www.forbes.com. January 18, 2011.

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• I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Life, Spiritual, Fun

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• Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Life, Happiness

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• My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

  Clara Schumann

  Life, Health, Giving

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• So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Life Lesson, Thinking, Meaningless Things

  "Tuesdays with Morrie". Book by Mitch Albom, 1997.

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• There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Funny, Music

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• The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Mrs. Warren's Profession”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

  Andrew Shue

  Amazing Friend

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• Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

  Wallace Stegner

  Broken Heart, Encouragement, Life Lesson

  Wallace Stegner (1990). “The Spectator Bird”, p.21, Penguin

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• I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Moving, Adventure

  Travels with a Donkey "Cheylard and Luc" (1879)

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• There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Funny, Life, Sweet

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “My Best Short Stories (Annotated Edition)”, p.75, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

  Tom Stoppard

  Travel, Adventure, New Beginnings

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