Inspirational Life Quotes - Page 25

• Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

  Euripides

  Travel

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Sweet, Money

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 8, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

  Alan Bennett

  Inspirational, Life, Moving Forward

  1960 Beyond the Fringe.

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• Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Integrity, Evil, Giving

  Albert Schweitzer (1932). “Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed”

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• After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.

  Richard Dawkins

  Life, Gratitude, Morning

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• Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.

  Judy Blume

  Believe, Greatness, Achieve

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• I am rooted, but I flow.

  Virginia Woolf

  Healing, Flow, Rooted

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.86, Collector's Library

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• Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". Book by Stephen Chbosky, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 1999.

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• Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Real, Cynical

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus”, p.7, 谷月社

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• Fail to plan, plan to fail.

  Hillary Clinton

  Planning, Failing, Plans

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2004). “Living History”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness.

  Hillary Clinton

  Inspirational, Kindness, Successful

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “It Takes a Village”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Love, Positive, Attitude

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Goodbye, Morning, Choices

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• Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2000). “Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

  Cassandra Clare

  Life, People, Matter

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1078, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

  Nancy Willard

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.

  Maya Angelou

  Journey, My Journey

  Maya Angelou (1995). “Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas, Poems, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Real Friends, Office

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Life, Choices, Lines

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.45, John Wiley & Sons

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• Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Men

  James Allen (2016). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.6, Xist Publishing

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• Our lives are like a candle in the wind.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Wisdom, Wind

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• When you can live forever what do you live for?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Life, Forever, Purpose

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• The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

  Ernest Becker

  Men, Anxiety, Needs

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

  Pythagoras

  Silence, Silent

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