Everything’s a story
“Everything’s a story. Stories are what help us make sense of the world.” – The Lookout
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Category: Life Quotes
Life Quote of the Day
“Life is like riding a bicycle. In order to keep your balance you must keep moving.” – Unknown
Maybe who we are isn’t so much about…
“Maybe who we are isn’t so much about what we do, but rather what we’re capable of when we least expect it.” – Jodi Picoult
Live Life To The Fullest Quotes
“Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.” – Horace
“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean
“Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.” – Melody Beattie (“Finding Your Way Home”)
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
“We spend too much time living in the ‘what if’ and need to learn to live in the ‘what is.’” – Rev. Leroy Allison
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” – Mark Twain
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Joe Lewis “Life is short. Eat dessert first.” – Jacques Torres
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller
“Life is too important to be taken seriously.” – Oscar Wilde
“There is the risk you cannot afford to take and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.” – Peter Drucker
“You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.” – Charles Buxton
“Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.” – Unknown Author
“No one knows what he can do until he tries.” – Publilius Syrus
“All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.” – Og Mandino
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” – Marie Curie
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky “Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.” – Anonymous
“There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them.” – Charles D. Gill
“Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.” – Annie Dillard
“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass… It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
“Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.” – Grace Hansen
“Enjoy every sandwich” – Warren Zevon
“One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.” – Iris Murdoch
“Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.” – Nick Carter
“If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.” – Fay Weldon
“This is your life. Choose to live it to the fullest.” – Gabriella Goddard
“Every now and then, bite off more than you can chew.” – Kobi Yamada
“May you live all the days of your life. ” – Jonathan Swift
“You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin
“We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.” – George M. Adams
Wise Quotes about Life
It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. – Albert Einstein
To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. – John W. Gardner
A hopeless person feels difficulty in every chance but, a hopeful person feels a chance in every difficulty. – Unknown
See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. – Pope John XXIII
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Now that it’s all over, what did you really do yesterday that’s worth mentioning? – Coleman Cox
Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. – Unknown
A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books. – Chinese proverb
Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. – Unknown
Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window – or break down a door. – Unknown
Life Quotes
“Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.” – Adele Brookman
“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.” – Lewis Grizzard
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard
“I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.” – John Wooden
“A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.” – Benjamin Franklin
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.” – Barack Obama
“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.” – Mark Twain
“I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can’t be any worse.” – Mark Twain
“Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.” – Mark Twain
“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.” – Ansel Adams
“But men must know that in this theater of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.” – Francis Bacon
Love over Fear Quote
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.- Oprah Winfrey
William James Life Quote
“These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
Dream Quotes
– “Dreams are answers to questions we haven’t yet figured out how to ask.” – X-Files
– “All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.” – Elias Canetti
– “Dreams are only thoughts you didn’t have time to think about during the day.” – Unknown
– “A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.” – The Talmud
– “Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” – Marsha Norman
– “A dream has power to poison sleep.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mutability”
– “Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.” – William Dement
– “Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” – Edgar Cayce
– “I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.” – Rene Descartes, “Meditations on First Philosophy”
– “Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.” – Henri Amiel
– “There’s a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams.” – Stoddard King, Jr.
– “Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.” – E.M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist
– “Dreams digest the meals that are our days.” – Astrid Alauda, Dyspeptic Enlightenment
– “Pay attention to your dreams – God’s angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep.” – The Angels’ Little Instruction Book, Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
– “One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.” – Evelyn Waugh
– “Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language.” – Gail Godwin
– “Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.” – Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence
– “Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.” – Vivian Mercer
– “Dreams are free, so free your dreams.” – Astrid Alauda
– “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.” – Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
– “For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.” – Samuel Lover, Rory O’ More
Long Life Quotes
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. – Robert Louis Stevenson
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C. S. Lewis
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. – George Bernard Shaw
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be. – Robert Browning
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. – Abraham Lincoln
It takes a long time to become young. – Pablo Picasso
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. – Winston Churchill
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. – Henry David Thoreau
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. – Eleanor Roosevelt
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. – Confucius
Life well spent is long. – Leonardo da Vinci
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. – Maurice Chevalier
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. – Thomas Jefferson
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. – Benjamin Franklin
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. – Henry Ford
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first. – Bill Cosby
Men cannot for long live hopefully unless they are embarked upon some great unifying enterprise – one for which they may pledge their lives, their fortunes and their honor. – C. A. Dykstra
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough. – Groucho Marx
May you live all the days of your life. – Jonathan Swift
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? – Satchel Paige