Life Quotes - Page 21

• You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

  Terry Pratchett

  Wisdom Experience, Wisdom And Experience, Results

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• The meaning of life is that it stops.

  Franz Kafka

  Death, Life And Death, Meaning Of Life

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

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• People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

  Cassandra Clare

  People, Matter, Way

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1078, Simon and Schuster

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• The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Success, Adventure

  'Die fröhliche Wissenschaft' (1882) bk. 4, sect. 283

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• We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

  Paulo Coelho

  Journey, Dancing, Alchemist

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 20, 2017

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• Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Spiritual, Decay, Body

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.126, 谷月社

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• Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Death

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 6, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

  Wendy Mass

  Inspirational, Karma, Bullying

  "The Candymakers (The Candymakers, Book 1)". Book by Wendy Mass, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2010.

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• If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Society, Would Be, Afternoon

  "Life Without Principle". The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, Issue 71, (pp. 484-495), 1863.

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• There are two words that, when spoken, have the most unfathomable power to completely change your life. Two words which, when they pass your lips, will be the cause of bringing absolute joy and happiness to you. Two words that will create miracles in your life. Two words that will wipe out negativity. Two words that will bring you abundance in all things. Two words which, when uttered and sincerely felt, will summon all the forces and vibrations in the Universe to move all things for you. The only thing standing between you, happiness, and the life of your dreams is two words THANK YOU!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

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• Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Faith, Wisdom

  Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.473, Delphi Classics

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• My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

  Alan Moore

  Romantic, Cowboy, Inspire

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• When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

  Samuel Johnson

  Attitude, Choices, Neglect

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• It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Second Chance, Half

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Possessed: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.238, 谷月社

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• I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do.

  George Linnaeus Banks

  True Love, Blue, Heaven

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  We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.

  Robert Fulghum

  Love, Funny, Relationship

  "True Love". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1997.

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• I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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• Sex is emotion in motion.

  Mae West

  Love, Sex, Romance

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• We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Ambition, Goal

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• A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

  Chin-Ning Chu

  Dream, Successful, Understanding

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  One word
  Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
  That word is love.

  Sophocles

  Love, Wedding, Pain

  "Oedipus at Colonus". Play by Sophocles, Lines 1616-1618,

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• We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Regret

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• Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

  Steve Jobs

  Fear, Failure, Fall

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Motivational, Respect, Wisdom

  Speech at St. Louis, 22 Mar. 1964, in St Louis Post-Dispatch 23 Mar. 1964

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