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10 Wisdom Quotes about Life

“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now.” – Joan Baez

“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

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

“Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.” – George Sand

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

“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.” – Margaret Fuller

“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” – Will Rogers

“Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” – Tom Lehrer

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Soren Kierkegaard

Wednesday’s Quotes

This is just a random list of great quotes, but because today is Wednesday, let’s call them Wednesday’s Quotes :)

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills

“To dream of the person you wish to be is to waste the person you are.” – Author Unknown

“Do what you can with what you’ve got wherever you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” – Henry Van Dyke

“It is not length of Life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might just be the world.” – Author Unknown

“The same hammer that breaks the glass forges the steel.” – Russian Proverb

“Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.” – Author Unknown

“We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.” – Tim McGraw

“And sometimes when you turn, there is a shoulder to lean upon, a smile to believe in, a hand to hold. Those are the times your faith in the world is restored.” – Nirvikar Dahiya

“Laughter is the music of life.” – Sir William Osler

Valentine’s Day Quotes

Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone! Today is a special day for all lovers around the world, and we gonna celebrate it in our own way, with a great list of valentine’s day quotes. Enjoy :)

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! ~Thomas Hood

When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee. ~English saying used on poesy rings

Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein

I don’t understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine’s Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon. ~Author Unknown

For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. ~Rosemonde Gerard

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 – 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

I claim there ain’t
Another Saint
As great as Valentine. ~Ogden Nash

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~Author Unknown

A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you. ~Author Unknown

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, “Outside the Dog Museum”

We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. ~Author Unknown

Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day’s Saint Valentine’s.
For that good bishop’s sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns. ~Michael Drayton

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~William Shakespeare

kisses are a better fate than wisdom. ~e.e. cummings

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~Author Unknown

Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde

In melody divine,
My heart it beats to rapturous love,
I long to call you mine. ~Author Unknown

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning

Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore

We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. ~Ben Hecht

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ~Henry Van Dyke

Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

A bell is no bell ’til you ring it,
A song is no song ’til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay –
Love isn’t love
‘Til you give it away. ~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, “You Are Sixteen (Reprise)”

I’ve fallen in love many times… always with you. ~Author Unknown

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ~Natalie Clifford Barney

Take away love and our earth is a tomb. ~Robert Browning

40 Life Quotes for a greater weekend

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