Life Quotes - Page 19

• My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

  Charles M. Schulz

  Happiness, Happy, Personality

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  Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Song, Men, Follow Your Dreams

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

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• To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Kindness

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• It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Book, Reading, Wish

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• why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out

  Oliver James

  Inspirational, Individuality, Trying

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• Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

  Carl Sandburg

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Important, World

  "Eleven Minutes". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2003.

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• When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

  Paulo Coelho

  Change, Meaningful, Courage

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 27, 2017

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• Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.

  Lauren Oliver

  Inspiration, Waiting, Three

  "Before I Fall: The official film tie-in that will take your breath away". Book by Lauren Oliver, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.

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• Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

  Jeannette Walls

  Fall, Important, Inspirational Life

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• We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Success, Long

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• Sometimes the Warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspiration, Warrior, Two

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• The movement of life has its rest in its own music.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "Stray Birds".

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• You can manage your sin, but that's not repentance.

  Henry R Brandt

  Sin, Repentance, Manage

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• Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Answers, Responsible

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.110, Beacon Press

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• There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.

  Judith McNaught

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Judith McNaught (2003). “Remember When”

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• Think and wonder, wonder and think.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Thinking, Wonder

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• When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

  John Dewey

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

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• There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Depression, Eulogy

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• Life is too short to work so hard.

  Vivien Leigh

  Inspire, Too Short, Short Life

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• Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Music, Advice

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  If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Happiness, Goodbye

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 18, 2012

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