Life Is Quotes - Page 23

• You ask, 'How to live my life?' But with the question you are suffocating life itself, for life is spontaneity.

  Mooji

  Spontaneity, Living My Life, Asks

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• Like it or not, life is a series of competitions.

  Harvey Mackay

  Competition, Series

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• Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Pain, Drink, Pleasure

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• The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

  Lisa Alther

  Men, Air, Slave

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• I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position. Maybe I can give a little advice from time to time.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

  Hugh Prather

  Victory, Mixtures, Problem

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.42, Bantam

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• Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.

  Meher Baba

  Honest, Sincerity, Sincere

  Meher Baba (1977). “Meher Baba on Inner Life: The Mystical Side of Self-realization”

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• Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

  Pema Chodron

  Life Is Like, Standards, Knows

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life is not too long, And therefore I determine, That many people read a song, Who will not read a sermon.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Song, Thinking, Long

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1854). “The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed”, p.264

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• Life is best spent in alleviating pain, assuaging distress, and promoting peace and joy. The service of man is more valuable than what you call “service to God.” God has no need of your service. Pleas man, you please God.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Pain, Men, Joy

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• Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

  Anthony Burgess

  Opposites, Moral, Entity

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.

  Robert Henri

  Finding Yourself, Development, Spirit

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors and attentions and even money paid, but I would have you note that these were paid a long time after the creator had gone through his struggles.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Struggle, Long

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Real achievement -- the true measure of how far we have advanced in life -- is not determined by what we have acquired, but rather by the degree to which we have put our fears behind us.

  Guy Finley

  Real, Achievement, Degrees

  Guy Finley (2007). “365 Days to Let Go: Daily Insights to Change Your Life”, BookBaby

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• Some people say their life is full of darkness and I wonder why they don't just try and switch the lights on.

  William H. Gass

  Light, People, Darkness

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• One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times for a celebration.

  Francis Picabia

  Blue, Naked, Red

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• Life is worth being lived, but not being discussed all the time.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Communication

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• On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Responsibility, Pioneers, Sides

  Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”

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• The principal fact of life is the free mind.

  Joyce Cary

  Freedom, Mind, Facts

  Joyce Cary (1976). “Selected Essays”

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• What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!

  Philip Sidney

  Secret, Secrecy, Mines

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.195

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• It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.

  Alain de Botton

  Life, Dust, Space

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• I knew neither jealousy nor hate but was possessed by a rage to recreate a new world, the world which my eyes perceived, a world all to myself. I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Beautiful, Hate, Eye

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• Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.

  Martin Seligman

  Meaningful, Good Life, Pleasant

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.20, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Memories, Real, Important Events

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• Have you ever fully realized that life is, after all, merely a series of habits, and that it lies entirely within one's own power to determine just what that series shall be?

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Lying, Habit, Determine

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “What All the World's A-Seeking”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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