Life Quotes - Page 16

• You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Writing, Poetry

  Elizabeth S. Sergeant Robert Frost: the Trial by Existence (1960) ch. 18

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  Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Happiness, Powerful

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  You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Meditation Practice

  "The Zürau Aphorisms". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

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• Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Optimistic, Thinking

  Twitter post from May 08, 2012

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• Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Happy Birthday

  "Happy Birthday to You!". Book by Dr. Seuss, 1959.

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• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Friendship, Reading

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

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• That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Motivational, Success

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• To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

  Arundhati Roy

  Sad, Romantic, Respect

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The Algebra of Infinite Justice”, p.24, Penguin Books India

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• Be the designer of your own destiny.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Motivational, Future, Fate

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• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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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, Music, Death

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

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• Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

  Frederick Buechner

  Spiritual, Pain, Heart

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jun 12, 2014

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• There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1922). “WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS”

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• Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

  A. A. Milne

  Beauty, Beautiful, Weed

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• The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Fake People, Honesty

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

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• You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

  John Cleese

  Funny, Sarcastic, People

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

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• To measure the man, measure his heart.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Sports, Heart, Character

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• Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Failure

  "5 Ways to Deal With Rejection" by Karen Naumann, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 6, 2016.

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  Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Death, Attitude

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• Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

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• Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Moving On, Beauty

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.356, New Directions Publishing

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