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Famous Quotes on Life

Posted on August 11, 2011 by

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

10. 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

Live Life To The Fullest Quotes

Posted on January 21, 2011 by

“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

Morning Quotes

Posted on January 26, 2010 by

– “If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.” – Henny Youngman

– “Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.” – Richard Whately

– “The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.” – Jean Kerr, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, 1957

– “I’d like mornings better if they started later.” – Unknown

– “For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?” – Thornton Wilder

– “Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.” – Robert Brault

– “Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.” – Elbert Hubbard

– “The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning – and the younger generation doesn’t think much of it either.” – John J. Welsh

– “If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters.” – Unknown

– “Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.” – Jean Giraudoux

– “The sun is but a morning star.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

– “There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.” – Unknown

– “There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.” – Unknown

– “I can see the orange haze on the horizon as the morning exhales a yawn, and seems to be ready to rise.” – Jeb Dickerson

– “I have a “carpe diem” mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet.” – Joanne Sherman

– “Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.” – Josh Billings

– “The plans that I made when horizontal are working out now that I’m vertical.” – Betsy Cañas Garmon

– “Luxury is an ancient notion. There was once a Chinese mandarin who had himself wakened three times every morning simply for the pleasure of being told it was not yet time to get up.” – Argosy

– “One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.” – Robert Brault

– “The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.” – Thomas Jefferson

– “I’ll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time.” – Emily Dickinson

– “To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.” – Henry David Thoreau

– “Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.” – Ambrose Bierce

– “No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.” – Robert Lynd

– “Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.” – William Feather

– “Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience – unless they are still up.” – Ellen Goodman

– “I don’t think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.” – Rita Rudner