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To create more positive results in your life, replace “if only” with “next time” – Unknown
Category: Life Quotes
Life Provoking Questions
If you could live the next 24 hours and then erase it and start over just once, what would you do?
Have the courage to answer?
Life is like a canvas
Life is like a canvas. It begins blank, and every day is like another brush stroke. Make your life a masterpiece.
Life isn’t long
Do things wrong
Or do things right
Life isn’t long
So make it bright
10 Life Lessons
Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.” ~ Albert Einstein
Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don’t have the answers. And if you don’t have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else’s solutions will seem appropriate. You’ll have to come up with your own.” ~ Chuck Close
You practice and you get better. It’s very simple.” ~ Philip Glass
A big part of life is realizing what you’re good at.” ~ Alyssa Milano
Children teach you that you can still be humbled by life, that you learn something new all the time. That’s the secret to life, really — never stop learning. It’s the secret to career. I’m still working because I learn something new all the time. It’s the secret to relationships. Never think you’ve got it all.” ~ Clint Eastwood
You can’t just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.” ~ J. Craig Venter
A friend is someone who will tell you when you’re bullshitting, when you’ve overstepped a mark, or when you’re being an idiot.” ~ Sting
I think we will make it. Because one quality people have — certainly Americans have it — is that they can adapt when they see necessity staring them in the face. What to avoid is what someone once called the definition of hell: truth realized too late.”~ E. O. Wilson
The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It’s doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it.” ~ Julia Child
In the end, winning is sleeping better.” ~ Jodie Foster
Life changing quotes
“Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.” – Unknown
“Change in all things is sweet.” – Aristotle
“Life itself is the proper binge.” – Julia Child
“A strong oak is just a nut that stood fast.” – Unknown
“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.” – Tuli Kupferberg
“Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow.” – Unknown
“Change yourself, change your fortunes.” – Portuguese Proverb
“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.” – Karen Kaiser Clark
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.” – John Wooden
“In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.” – Author unknown
“Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
“First, say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” – Epictetus
“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.” – Buddha
“Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance.” – Unknown
“Amidst the worldly comings and goings, observe how endings become beginnings.” – Tao Te Ching
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” – Chinese Proverb
”Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson
“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.” – Indian saying
“Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!” – Miguel de Cervantes
“Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you’ll be forever in the control of things you can’t give up.” – Andy Law
“Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn’t do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.” – Florida Scott-Maxwell
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be Dont Ask What The Meaning What Life Is 300×300 Change your Life – Life changing Quotescareful lest you let other people spend it for you.” – Carl Sandburg
“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them — every day begin the task anew.” – Saint Francis de Sales
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” – Nelson Mandela
Inspiring Life Quotes to Live By
1. “It’s better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.” –William Markiewicz
2. “Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life… Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.” – Viktor Frankl
3. “Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” –Kahlil Gibran
4. “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” – Dale Carnegie
5. “Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now. When we face our challenges with faith, prepared to learn, willing to make changes, and if necessary, to let go, we are demanding our power be turned on.” –Iyanla Vanzant
6. Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. –Nicolas de Chamfort
7. “Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead; that is where your future lies.” –Ann Landers
8. “Circumstances and situations do color life but you have been given the mind to choose what the color shall be.” –John Homer Miller
9. “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.” –Jiddu Krishnamurti
10. “Whatever you want in life, start today. Not tomorrow – today. Let it be a small beginning – a tiny beginning. Your happiness depends on starting today – every day.” –Jonathan Lockwood Huie
11. “The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.” –Veronique Vienne
12. “For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his or her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.” –Andy Rooney
13. “The three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.” –Addison
14. “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. “Life is not a journey to the grave with intentions of arriving safely in a pretty well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming … WOW! What a ride!” –Unknown
16. “To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to be afraid and to know and acknowledge your fear, and still to live creatively and with unstinting love: that is to live with grace.” –Peter Abrahams
17. “People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life… I think that what we’re really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.” –Joseph Campbell
18. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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” –Mark Twain
19. “Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.” –Charles Richards
20. “Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process.” –Anthony Robbins
21. “It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived –forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.” –Soren Kierkegaard
22. “For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.” –Fr. Alfred D’Souza
23. “I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” –Jack London
24. “Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” –Mary Anne Radmacher
25. “When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.” –Greg Anderson
Living Life to the Fullest: Read, Think, Do
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.” – Christopher Morley
Life Quotes by Famous People
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.” – George Washington Carver
“May we never let the things we can’t have, or don’t have, or shouldn’t have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness, let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.” – Richard L. Evans
“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.” – John F. Kennedy
“An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.” – Winston Churchill
“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 inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs
“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
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” – Mother Theresa
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin
“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
“Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.” – Dag Hammarskjold
“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” – Oprah Winfrey
” Fate, is an excuse for why we end up where we do! Our ‘Actions’ predetermine our Destiny, our ‘Reactions’ seal that fate!” – Carl Stoynoff
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.” – Robert Frost
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?” – Sydney J. Harris
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” –Kahlil Gibran
“One must work and dare if one really wants to live.” – Vincent van Gogh
“Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” – John F. Kennedy
“It’s better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.” –William Markiewicz
“Life has got to be lived — that’s all there is to it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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.” – Mark Twain
“The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.” – Raymond Charles Barker
“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.” – May Sarton
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” – Robert Byrne
10 Life Quotes
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss
“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.” — William W. Purkey
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” — Robert Frost
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” — Douglas Adams
“It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.” — André Gide
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin
“Finish every 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; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.” — Mother Teresa