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Famous Quotes on Life

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1. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. – Mae West

2. The most important things in life aren’t things. – Anthony J. D’Angelo

3. And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

4. Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt and live like it’s heaven on Earth. – Mark Twain

5. Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. – Keri Russell

6. Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today. – James Dean

7. Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. – Maria Robinson

8. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. – Maya Angelou

9. May you live every day of your life. – Jonathan Swift

Famous Quotes on Life10. If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything. – Win Borden

11. Where there is love there is life. – Gandhi

12. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

13. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. – George Bernard Shaw

14. The purpose of life is to fight maturity. – Dick Werthimer

15. I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally. – Zelda Fitzgerald

16. 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

17. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. – Robert Frost

18. The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. – Walter Bagehot

19. 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

20. Read in order to live. – Gustave Flaubert

21. If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. – Emily Dickinson

22. Life is good, without it we’d all be dead. – Unknown

Quotes about Being Happy

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Happiness is a choice. – Anonymous

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too. – Anne Frank

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. –Thich Nhat Hanh

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. – Dale Carnegie

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. – Zhuangzi

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. – Helen Keller

being happy quotesSuccess is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

The word “happiness” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. – Carl Jung

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller

Happiness is a direction, not a place. – Sydney J. Harris

Cute Quotes for Girls

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I don’t believe in love because I still don’t have you! – Author Unknown

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. – Ingrid Bergman

When the eyes meet and hold strongly they are bound to meet again. – Author Unknown

You know it’s love when you want to keep holding hands even after you’re sweaty. – Author Unknown

Kiss that’s never tasted is forever and ever wasted. – Billie Holiday

Sometimes the perfect person for you is that whom you least expected to be. – Author Unknown

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. – Swedish Proverb

Two hearts, two minds, in time did find one love, one aim two paths the same. Hold fast…and love will last. – Author Unknown

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Even if courage fails you, tell that special someone that you love them in anyway possible. – Author Unknown

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. – Oscar Wilde

Cute love is an attempt to change a piece of dream into reality. – Author Unknown

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. – Albert Einstein

Women are made to be loved, not understood. – Oscar Wilde

Teamwork Quotes

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I want to motivate you today. I’m trying to make it possible with some great teamwork quotes. Take a seat, and enjoy :)

Many hands make light work. – John Heywood

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. – Helen Keller

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. – Henry Ford

A successful team is a group of many hands but of one mind. – Bill Bethel

None of us is as smart as all of us. – Ken Blanchard

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities. – Stephen Covey

When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. – Ethiopian proverb

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. – Ryunosuke Satoro

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. – Vince Lombardi

I know we’re termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down. – Florynce Kennedy

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. – Henry Ford

The strength of the team is each individual member…the strength of each member is the team. – Coach Phil Jackson

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Love Quotes

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“The path of love is not the path of comfort. It means going forward into the unknown, with no guarantees of safety, even though you’re afraid. Trusting is dangerous, but without trust there is no hope for love, and love is all we ever have to hold against the dark…Love is worth nothing until tested against its own defeat.” – Creina Alcock

“Love is the beauty of the soul.” – St. Augustine

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Baldwin

“Love is the burning point of life, and because life is suffering so is love.” – Joseph Campbell

“You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.” – Jonathan Carroll

“Love never hurts you. Its not loving yourself that hurts you.” – Barbara De Angelis

“For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love – this is an old rule.” – Dhammapada

“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.” – George Eliot

“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.'” – Erich Fromm

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.” – Kahlil Gibran “The Prophet”

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup… Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone thought they quiver with the same music.” – Kahlil Gibran “The Prophet”

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” – Zora Neale Hurston

“So I will share this room with you
And you can have this heart to break.” – Billy Joel “So It Goes”

“You may be right
I may be crazy.
But I just may be a lunatic you’re looking for.” – Billy Joel

When you press me to your heart
I’m in a world apart
A world where roses bloom – La Vie En Rose

“Let us hesitate no longer to announce that the sensual passions and mysteries are equally sacred with the spiritual mysteries and passions.” – D.H. Lawrence

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you’ll wait for me
Hold me like you’ll never let me go – Leaving on a Jet Plane

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.” – Dinah Shore

“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.” – Anne-Sophie Swetchine

“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it, and no limit is set.” – Mother Teresa

“You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine; it being the most delightful and natural employment of the soul of man.” – Thomas Traherne

“We tend to wear suits of armor, one over the other… We hope we will not have to completely undress.” – Chogyam Trungpa

40 Life Quotes for a greater weekend

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The best, free and easiest way to get a better weekend in minutes it’s reading quotes (that’s my point of view). Starting from here, let me share with you a great list of 40 life quotes for a greater weekend. Please enjoy and share :)

1. Life is a gift. Never forget to enjoy and bask in every moment you are in. – Unknown

2. Don’t ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion. – Unknown

3. Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. – Hans Christian Andersen

4. Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. – Hans Christian Anderson

5. Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. – Henry Van Dyke

6. Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. – Peace Pilgrim

7. A goal, a love and a dream give you total control over your body and your life. – John Wayne Schlatter

8. I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. – William Allen White

9. Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back. – Arthur Rubinstein

10. Every moment is a new beginning – Quan Dang

11. The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. – Elbert Hubbard

12. Mankind’s greatest gift… is that we have free choice. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ros

13. Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. – Carl Sandburg

14. Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it. – Salma Hayek

15. The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. – Oprah Winfrey

16. Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don’t let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. – R. I. Fitzhenry

17. Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn’t be avoided. It should be faced. – Edward Norton

18. Life is a field of unlimited possibilities. – Deepak Chopra

19. Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. – Les Brown

20. Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. – Ann Landers

21. We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. – Robin Sharma

22. Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes. – Agnes Turnbull

23. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. – Bible

24. The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. – Bernard M. Baruch

25. Life is like riding a bicycle – in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein

26. Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. – John Gardner

27. Life is a progress, and not a station. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

28. Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. – Vernon Howard

29. You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. – Albert Camus

30. Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. – Tom O’Connor

31. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. – Henry James

32. Keep breathing. – Sophie Tucker

33. Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have. – Rhonda Britten

34. Go ahead with your life, your plans…. Don’t waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started. – Richard L. Evans

35. If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. – Elizabeth Bowen

36. If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. – Katharine Hespburn

37. Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today. – James Dean

38. Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. – Unknown

39. Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. – Howard Thruman

40. If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything. – Win Borden

Amazing Love Quotes

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As I was saying on the precedent article, this is kind of amazing quotes day, or spell it how you want. If there I was sharing with you (I hate to tell that I am showing you quotes, and I love to say „sharing quotes”) some generally amazing quotes, here we talk about amazing love quotes for people in love, but not only. Please, make yourself at home and enjoy your stay :)

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert Heinlein

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein

“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.” – Erich Fromm

“Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.” – Author Unknown

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” – Peter Ustinov

“When you are in love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss

“I don’t pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me; love is knowing all about someone, and still wanting to be with them more than any other person, love is trusting them enough to tell them everything about yourself, including the things you might be ashamed of, love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone, but still getting weak knees when they walk into a room and smile at you.” – Author Unknown

“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.” – Author Unknown

“Love – a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.” – Author Unknown

Love is like heaven, but it can hurt like hell.” – Author Unknown

Happiness Quotes

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– “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 that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller

– “Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.” – Aristotle

– “Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.” – Democritus

– “People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.” – George Matthew Allen

– “In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.” – Albert Schweitzer

– “Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.” – Aldous Huxley

– “There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.” – David Burns, Intimate Connections

– “The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

– “Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.” – Charles Caleb Colton

– “Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

– “The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realising that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.” – from How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett

– “Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.” – Alice Meynell

– “Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.” – Epictetus

– “Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.” – Benjamin Franklin

– “There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.” – Epictetus

– “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.” – John Stuart Mills

– “You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.” – Robert F. Kennedy

– “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” – Benjamin Disraeli

– “Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.” – William Ellery Channing

– “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Ghandi

– “The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.” – Henry W. Longfellow

– “Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.” –
Douglas Jerrold

– “Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.” – J. Petit Senn

– “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” – Albert Camus

– “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

– “Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come,—as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.” – Thomas Fuller

– “Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.” – George Santayana

– “No man is happy who does not think himself so.” – Publilius Syrus

– “Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination; –happiness; but few are going by the same road.” – Charles Caleb Colton