Years Of Life Quotes

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  Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein's letter to his son Eduard (February 5, 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson "Einstein: His Life and Universe" (p. 367), 2007.

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

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• One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

  Gerard Way

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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

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• The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'

  Max Lucado

  Years, Choices, Grace

  Max Lucado (2014). “Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book, I feel like I am getting two years of life experiences.

  Mark Batterson

  Book, Writing, Average

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• Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings of adults are the results of the burdens and hardships of reality, it must be asserted that just the opposite is true. What we learn about the child and the adult through psychoanalysis shows that all the sufferings of later life are for the most part repetitions of these earlier ones, and that every child in the first years of life goes through and immeasurable degree of suffering.

  Melanie Klein

  Children, Reality, Years

  "Love, Guilt and Reparation: And Other Works 1921-1945". Book by Melanie Klein, p. 173, 2002.

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• Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.

  Isaac Watts

  Reflection, Years, Ideas

  Isaac Watts (1743). “The Improvement of the Mind”, p.17

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• I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and squirrels. I hear the life of the trees this wood came from.

  Garth Stein

  Rain, Fire, Squirrels

  Garth Stein (2014). “A Sudden Light”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not really know if it is a gain to exchange the crown of martrydom with two or three years of life in freedom. But I leave the good Lord to decide.

  Pavel Peter Gojdic

  Years, Two, Suffering

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• The first years of life are not just important; they are more crucial to shaping children than any other time. Even before they speak, children are extremely sensitive to the messages adults send them.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Years, Important

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “It Takes a Village”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• If we ... capitalize on the very real strengths of older people, then added years of life can dramatically improve quality of life at all ages.

  Laura L. Carstensen

  Motivation, Real, Inspiration

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• We are all so bent and determined to get what we want, we miss the lessons that could be learned from life's experiences. Many of my AIDS patients discovered that the last year of their lives was by far their best. Many have said they wouldn't have traded the rich quality of that last year of life for a healthier body. Sadly, it is only when tragedy strikes that most of us begin attending to the deeper aspects of life. It is only then that we attempt to go beyond surface concerns-what we look like, how much money we make, and so forth-to discover what's really important.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Years, Perspective, Missing

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• The foundation for our self-image is grounded in the first three years of life. It comes from our major caretaker's mirroring.

  John Bradshaw

  Self Esteem, Years, Foundation

  John Bradshaw (2010). “Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem”, p.49, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Let's spend less on trying to fix the unfixable in the last five years of life and spend more supporting people so that they can stay the least disabled as they possibly can, the most independent as they possibly can, and keep them at home.

  Katy Butler

  Home, Independent, Years

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius is too rare, too precious, to be permitted to waste the best years of life--the years of youth and lofty dreams--in a heart-breaking struggle for bread. To starve the soul with the body is to do worse than murder. Think, too, of what the public loses!

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Dream, Believe, Struggle

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• We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragmentary character of language covering this period. Words serve as fixatives for mental images. . . . Even at the end of the second year of life when word tags exist for a number of objects in the child's life, these words are discrete and do not yet bind together the parts of an experience or organize them in a way that can produce a coherent memory.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Memories, Children, Believe

  Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• Our emotional map is laid down mainly in relationship with our earliest caregiver in the first couple of years of life.

  Philippa Perry

  Couple, Emotional, Years

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70 years ago. They could be really tough because of infirmity.

  Anna Quindlen

  Couple, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Make every decision based on your last years of life instead of your next 10.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Years, Decision, Lasts

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• "Nothing is ever lost" means that what we are now goes all the way back through natural history. We are biological organisms and not simply computerized brains. By focusing totally on the present, thinking only about science and computers, and forgetting four billion years of life on this planet, we are losing perspective on who and what we are.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Mean, Thinking, Years

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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