Life Well Lived Quotes - Page 3

• This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Journeys And Paths, Want, Life Is

  Stephen Schutz, Susan Polis Schutz (1994). “Reach for Your Dreams in 5-D Stereograms”, Blue Mountain Arts

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• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• One of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

  David Rakoff

  Mind, Able, Reaching

  "I'm Dying to Meet You in the Next Life" by Dwight Eschliman, www.gq.com. August 13, 2012.

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• At the end of the day, what I cherish most are the human relationships. With the unfailing support of my wife and partner I have lived my life to the fullest. It is the friendships I made and the close family ties I nurtured that have provided me with that sense of satisfaction at a life well lived, and have made me what I am.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Ties, Wife, Support

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.160, Editions Didier Millet

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Susan Polis Schutz (1978). “Yours If You Ask”, Blue Mountain Arts

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• I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  "Song: 'If 6 Was 9'". 1967.

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• Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Educational, Learning

  Speech at the Somerville Club, 27 Feb. 1895, in R. A. Streatfield Essays on Life, Art and Science (1904) p. 69

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• You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.

  Erwin McManus

  Doe, Wells, Dies

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Stand Against the Wind: Fuel for the Revolution of Your Soul”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• Busy is good, isn't it? Busy means we're hard at it, achieving our ends or "goals." Haven't had time to stop, or look around or think. That's considered the sign of a life well lived ... Suppose, though, you're not sure that what you're doing is at all worthwhile. Suppose you blundered into it over a spoonful of lime pickle. It's easy, it pays quite well. But really it's a distraction. It stops you thinking about what you ought to be doing.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Mean, Thinking, Goal

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• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The best revenge is a life well lived.

  Chloe Neill

  Revenge, Best Revenge, Wells

  Chloe Neill (2010). “Twice Bitten: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel”, p.191, Penguin

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• Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

  William James

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.80, The Floating Press

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• You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

  Bill Ayers

  Life, Needs, Way To Live

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• You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Youthful Writings". Book by Albert Camus, October 1932.

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• Strive for a life well lived. Each one with their own aims, preferences, and meaning. Always, of course, without harming other persons or preventing others from being able to form a good life for themselves.

  Jose Gonzalez

  Good Life, Able, Strive

  "Singer-Songwriter José González: Live and Let Live". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiveness, Problems Love, New Day

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• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

  "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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• You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  "Intuitions" by Albert Camus, Youthful Writings, 1976.

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• The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty.

  N.D. Wilson

  Rising, Truth Is, Scales

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Spiritual, Witty

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Inner Peace, Wells

  Dean Karnazes (2006). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.31, Penguin

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