Life Quotes - Page 20

• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Ambition, Character

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Humor

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• Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

  Ellen Raskin

  Blow, Self, Wind

  Ellen Raskin (2004). “The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.42, Penguin

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• Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Funny, Witty, Imagination

  Christopher Isherwood (1987). “The Wishing Tree: Christopher Isherwood on Mystical Religion”, Vedanta Press

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  Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Beautiful, War

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.2, Publishdrive

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• We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.

  Tim McGraw

  Best Friend, Success, Music

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• Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Break, Short Life

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.289, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

  William Osler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Bad Ass

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.301, Duke University Press

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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  There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Motivational, Inspiring, Encouraging

  Song: Anthem

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• You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Notebook, Stay Strong, Hurt

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.87, Hachette UK

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• Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

  Frederick Buechner

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Courage

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Aug 17, 2016

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• All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Motivational, Don't Give Up

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.131, Open Road Media

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• If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

  David Viscott

  Motivational, Positive, Courage

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• Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Positive, Literature, Saved

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• Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

  Richard L. Evans

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

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

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• It’s your own expectations that hurt you. Not the world you live in. Whatever happens in the world is real. What you think should happen is unreal. So people are hurt by their expectations. You know , you’re not disappointed by the world, you are disappointed by your own projections.

  Jacque Fresco

  Hurt, Disappointment, Real

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• Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

  Joseph Conrad

  Dream, Fear, Life Is

  "Under Western Eyes". Book by Joseph Conrad, pt. IV, ch. 2, 1911.

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  Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.

  John Wayne

  Funny, Leadership, Badass

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• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

  Samuel Butler

  Art, Bad Ass, Exact Sciences

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.440, The Floating Press

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• If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

  Marc Chagall

  Beautiful, Art, Creativity

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• Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

  Andre Gide

  Change, Long, Literature

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• One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Insightful, Want, Dare

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2395, Delphi Classics

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• From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Fun

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

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• Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Way, Next, Path

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