Life Changing Experience Quotes

• Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'

  Delta Goodrem

  Real, Life Changing, Reflection

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

  Keri Russell

  Life, Change, Priorities

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

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Cheer Up, Reality

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• Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Motivation

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• I am humanly unable to correct my negative self-image until I encounter a life-changing experience with non-judgmental love bestowed upon me by a Person whom I admire so much that to be unconditionally accepted by Him is to be born again.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Life Changing, Love Is, Self

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• A light heart lives long.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Funny Love

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 15

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• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Outing someone is like ripping a butterfly from its cocoon. You can damage them for life and rob them of THEIR life changing experience of liberation. For a successful emergence THEY have to struggle through the cocoon of fear and shame. THEN they can fly.

  Anthony Venn-Brown

  Life Changing, Struggle, Butterfly

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• Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, Happiness, Motivation

  William Ellery Channing, George Channing (1849). “(411 p.)”, p.88

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• Never say more than is necessary.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Inspiration, History

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch”, p.12

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• In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

  Galileo Galilei

  Truth, Inspiration, Independent

  "Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men". Book by François Arago, as translated by Baden Powell, Robert Grant, and William Fairbairn, p. 365, 1859.

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• Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.

  Michael Johnson

  Inspirational, Life Changing, People

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• The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Happiness, Adversity

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

  Ovid

  Life Changing, Inspiration, Desire

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• Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Meditation, Contentment

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.377

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• Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Travel, Adventure, Journey

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

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• Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• When I want to read a novel, I write one.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspiration, Reading, Writing

  In W. Monypenny and G. Buckle 'The Life of Benjamin Disraeli' vol. 6 (1920) ch. 17.

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• The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Happiness, Simple

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”

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• Going to the Sahara Desert and meeting the Touareg band Tinariwen was a life-changing experience. All through that time, I have just carried on learning and meeting musicians, and I keep finding links between different forms.

  Justin Adams

  Life Changing, Musician, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are about five or six songs that were written in full or in part while I was in Iraq, and that was definitely a life-changing experience. There was no shortage of inspiration.

  Bryan Hayes

  Song, Life Changing, Inspiration

  "Bryan Hayes To Play At Sweet T Market". Interview With Linley Stringer, maroonweekly.com. December 2, 2015.

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• I always wrote about girls that went to the beach and had that summer that changed everything. So I was interested in what it would be like to live in a tourist town where everyone has these life changing experiences, but your whole life is there.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Summer, Beach

  Interview with Stephanie Mooney, www.weheartya.com. June 13, 2013.

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• And all may do what has by man been done.

  Edward Young

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Motivation

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.146

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