Living Life Well Quotes

• The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Life, Bad Day

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

  Robert Jones Burdette

  Meaningful, Good Life, Live Life

  "Mark Twain: Selected Writings of an American Skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

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• Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Karma, People

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Feb 15, 2010

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• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• We are always getting ready to live but never living.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Carpe Diem, Law Of Attraction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.1, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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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, Life, Success

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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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• Don't take life too seriously.

  RuPaul

  Life, Sarcastic, Funny Inspirational

  RuPaul (2010). “Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Strength

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

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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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• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Graduation, Wise

  "Mark Twain, selected writings of an American skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

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• You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

  Mae West

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Mae West: 'YOLO,' Before YOLO Was a Thing", bigthink.com. September 25, 2015.

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

  Diane Ackerman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  James Allen (2015). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.7, BookRix

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  To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

  Havelock Ellis

  Life, Moving On, Letting Go

  Havelock Ellis (1973). “Affirmations”, Milford House Publishing Company

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  Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Life, Beautiful, Being Yourself

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

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• Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Positive, Gratitude

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• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Careers, Will And Determination

  Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Life, Wells, Ifs

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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