Life QuotesLife quotes in this collection are full of wisdom and meaning and advice. Art Buchwald reminds us, “The best things in life aren’t things.” Gandhi famously states, “My life is my message.” The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. Alfred Adler 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 You were born to greatness. Having a life mission implies that that world has need of you. In fact, the world has been preparing you to fill this need with one incredible life experience after another. Finding and fulfilling your potential will lead you to your highest experience in this life. Believe it, you have a mission. It is the gateway to your personal greatness. Greg Anderson It is in awareness that we bring everything to life that lives within us. There is no time like the present to give birth to creativity. Kathleen Anderson I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as making a ’life.’ Maya Angelou Nothing will work unless you do. Maya Angelou One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. Maya Angelou The energy of the mind is the essence of life. Aristotle Life is not about getting through the storms, but about dancing in the rain. Bunny Armstrong From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. Arthur Ashe Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. David Augsberger The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius To live happily is an inward power of the soul. Marcus Aurelius Here is the test to find whether or not your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn’t. Richard Bach Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Richard Bach You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when. But you can decide how you’re going to live now. Joan Baez One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody, everything, every night before you go to bed. Bernard M. Baruch You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it. Lucinda Basset We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are... Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself. R.J. Baughan Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people’s souls. Melody Beattie We need to set goals for ourselves. Start today…if you don’t have any goals, make your first goal getting some goals. You probably won’t start living happily ever after, but you may start living happily, purposefully, and with gratitude…Goals are gratitude in action. They give us the opportunity to build on what we already have. While achieving goals can be a lengthy process, we can learn to be grateful for each stage in the process of setting and meeting goals. Melody Beattie We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life… Charlotte Joko Beck Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Ludwig van Beethoven I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. Hilaire Belloc Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the small uncaring ways. Stephen Vincent Benet There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. Henri Bergson Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. Sarah Bernhardt If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about. Orlando Bloom The greatest gift you can give yourself is joy, not only because of the feeling that goes with it at the moment, but because of the magnificent experience it will draw to you. It will produce wonders in your life. Jack Boland When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. Jean Shinoda Bolen Children make your life important. Erma Bombeck If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder. Ray Bradbury Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius. Robert Brault Life is a conspiracy to shower you with a nonstop feast of interesting experiences, all of which are designed to help you grow your intelligence, shed your pretensions, and master the art of ingenious love. Rob Brezsny Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. Charlotte Bronte Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. Adele Brookman Live out of your imagination instead of your memory. Les Brown The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today. Les Brown I believe you are your work. Don’t trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That’s a rotten bargain. Rita Mae Brown Everything in life is based on daring. Martin Buber The best things in life aren’t things. Art Buchwald I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. Pearl S. Buck Drink deeply. Live in serenity and joy. Buddha If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. Buddha The master of the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which; he simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both. Buddha Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness…Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life. Jacob Burckhardt Life is but a day at most. Robert Burns I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world. John Burroughs All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. Samuel Butler Don't go through life. Grow through life. Eric Butterworth Life's inmost secret is the divine pattern in you which you can only really know when you are giving yourself in service. Eric Butterworth To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories. Steven Covey The purpose of life is a life of purpose. Robert Byrne The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. Lord Byron Cease trying to work everything out with your minds, it will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation. Eileen Caddy Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it. Eileen Caddy Ask yourself this question: Will this matter a year from now? Richard Carlson Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy. Julia Cameron In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art. Julia Cameron Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything. Julia Cameron People say that what we are all seeking is 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 innnermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive. Joseph Campbell Love absolutely everything that ever happens in your life. Paul Cantalupo Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it, life just doesn’t taste good. Lucia Capacchione Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most. Al Capp Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is. Amy Carmichael Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something. Liz Carpenter You are in possession of one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, one that has virtually unlimited potential not only to change your life, but also to change your world. Shelly Carson 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 your life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach out children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children. Pablo Casals The true object of all human life is play. G.K. Chesterton Do not carry the burden of the past; do not live in the future. The only important thing is that one lives in the present authentically and fully. Whatever your current life is, be the most you can be by living in the moment. Chan Chih Life is a field of unlimited possibilities. Deepak Chopra Live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and you connect with the field of infinate possibilities. Deepak Chopra Losing touch with spirit does nothing to the field of creativity, which is beyond harm; but it can do much to damage a person's chance in life. Deepak Chopra When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities. Deepak Chopra Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience. Sonia Choquette I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. Cicero Life is nothing without friendship. Cicero Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place. Paulo Coelho It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we have learned as we have moved toward that dream. Paulo Coelho It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. Alan Cohen Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living. Alan Cohen Live your spirit’s dreams, not your mind’s. Alan Cohen Money is your friend. Your body is your friend. Life is your friend. Alan Cohen Simply be who you are, do what you do best, be where you are called by joy, and let life work its magic on your behalf. Alan Cohen Wouldn’t it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out. Alan Cohen Life is playfulness…We need to play so that we can rediscover the magic all around us. Flora Colao Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other. Judy Collins Choose a job you love and you will never work another day in your life. Confucius Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. William Congreve Appreciation can make a day – even change a life. Margaret Cousins Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live. Norman Cousins If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. Norman Cousins Life is an adventure in forgiveness. Norman Cousins The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. William Cowper Losing weight for a big event is a great reason for you to call Jenny Craig, but don't forget the biggest of event all, your life. Jenny Craig Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. Broderick Crawford The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. Aleister Crowley A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives…most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity…when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 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 gotten 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. Alfred D’Souza As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death. Leonardo da Vinci Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it! Ram Dass If you’re too busy to enjoy life, you’re too busy. Jeff Davidson Life is chance to grow a soul. A. Powell Davies What is this life if, full of care, we have not time to stand and stare. W. H. Davies Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. Agnes de Mille The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose. Michel de Montaigne Dream as if you’ll live forever…live as if you’ll die today. James Dean Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Charles Dederich To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the ultimate purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done - this is how I desire to waste wisely my days. Thomas Dekker One must desire something to be alive. Margaret Deland The quality of your life is based on the quality of the questions you ask. John Demartini That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. Emily Dickenson The mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson To be alive is power, existing in itself, without a further function, omnipotence enough. Emily Dickinson The secret to living the life of your dreams is to start living the life of your dreams today, in every little way you possibly can. Mike Dooley All art, whether it pleases us or not, helps to add color, excitement, joy, or sadness and, most often, a sense of awe to our life's experience. Henry O. Dorman Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. Fyodor Dostoevsky Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made. Wayne Dyer You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. Wayne Dyer You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, I release the need for this in my life. Wayne Dyer Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born. Albert Einstein I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. Albert Einstein If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. Albert Einstein Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. Albert Einstein Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Albert Einstein Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other. George Eliot The heart knows what it wants, and it often makes no sense. Intuition, creativity, and listening are all imperative in creating an inspired life. Jonathan H. Ellerby Explore. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson Guard well you spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. Ralph Waldo Emerson Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. Ralph Waldo Emerson The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency. Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience. Ralph Waldo Emerson Life consists of what a person is thinking about all day. Ralph Waldo Emerson All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about…We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing...But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live. Joseph Epstein Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired. Erik Erikson The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life. Clarissa Pinkola Estes No man is a failure who is enjoying life. William Feather Until you know that life is interesting – and find it so – you haven’t found your soul. Geoffrey Fisher All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another. Debbie Ford Anyone who stops learning is old, whether 20 or 80, anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford Life is consciousness. Emmet Fox Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is as unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. Viktor Frankl One day is worth a thousand tomorrows. Benjamin Franklin Our bodies are the source and resource for every moment in our lives. Our bodies tie us to the earth. If there's a way home - and there is - it's through the body. Amy Frasier Life is full of obstacle illusions. Grant Frazier When your life itself becomes the subject matter of the creative process, a very different experience of life opens to you. Robert Fritz In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on. Robert Frost Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Robert Fulghum One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference. Robert Fulghum Your self image is your pattern! Every thought has an activity visualized. Every activity belongs to a pattern. You identify with your pattern or thought. Your patterns lead your life. J. G. Gallimore Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi Love is the law of life. Mahatma Gandhi My life is my message. Mahatma Gandhi Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gandhi Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. John W. Gardner To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong. John W. Gardner When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless. John W. Gardner Don’t let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives. Bill Gates Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the Universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request and everything your heart desires must come to you. Shakti Gawain When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life. Albert F. Geoffrey Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. Kahlil Gibran Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Kahlil Gibran Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Life is a verb, not a noun. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with tohers. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing is worth more than this day. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. Samuel Goldwyn Joy of life seems to me to arise from a sense of being where one belongs…of being foursquare with the life we have chosen. All the discontented people I know are trying sedulously to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do. David Grayson Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles. Mike Greenburg Life's not about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain! Vivian Greene Life is not a dress rehearsal. Stop practicing what you're going to do and just go do it. In one bold stroke you can transform today. Marilyn Grey We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. Ernesto "Che" Guevara To live is to have problems and to solve problems is to to grow intellectually. J. P. Guilford Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capabilities, then go beyond to a higher level. Alexander Haig Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy. Richard Halloway The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do. Lionel Hampton You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life. Herbie Hancock When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world. Thich Nhat Hanh Because of your smile you make life more beautiful. Thich Nhat Hanh Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life. Thich Nhat Hanh Everything is affected by and is part of everything else, changing constantly from one state to another. The rain becomes the river; the river surrenders to the sea and the cycle begins over again. Nothing is ever lost. The melody changes – the dance goes on. Connie Harrison Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip. Robert J. Hastings When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown. Tony Hatch If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works. Louise Hay It is safe to be me. I love life. I am always safe and secure. I move forward in life with joy and ease. All is well in my world. Louise Hay My day begins with gratitude and joy. I look forward with enthusiasm to the adventures of the day, knowing that in my life, All is good. Louise Hay The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. Elain Heffner The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. Nelson Henderson Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. Rabbi Abraham Heschel Life is a series of delicious moments. Abraham-Hicks All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth. Napoleon Hill Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. Hippocrates The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. Eric Hofer The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time, it is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else – we are the busiest people in the world. Eric Hoffer Life is something to be in, not something to get through. Dustin Hoffman It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. Oliver Wendell Holmes If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals. Lou Holtz You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself to be. Lou Holtz When you reduce life to black and white, you never see rainbows. Rachel Houston The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. Elbert Hubbard Play with life, laugh with life, dance lightly with life, and smile at the riddles of life, knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin. Jonathan Lochwood Huie The great end of life is not knowledge but action. Thomas Henry Huxley My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life. Lee Iacocca Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes, great minds rise above them. Washington Irving It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined. Henry James The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. As you think, so shall you be. William James Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. Storm Jameson The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable. Storm Jameson Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. Mae Jemison Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. Stay hungry. Stay foolish. Steve Jobs The trick is not how much pain you feel but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses. Erica Jong Never cut what you can untie. Joseph Joubert When you have the constant focus of going within and then acting, your life will unfold in magical ways. Elizabeth Joy As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. Carl Jung If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear. Jon Kabat-Zinn Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. Danny Kaye What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask. Sam Keen Life is a daring adventure or nothing. Helen Keller The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. Ken Keyes, Jr. Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept. Ken Keys, Jr. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. Søren Kierkegaard Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Søren Kierkegaard Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance. Søren Kierkegaard Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do - your unique and special vocation...Your life's work involves doing what you love and loving what you do. Dennis Kimbro The true American dream not only provides the freedom to use your gifts and talents to achieve your highest goal but also gives you the freedom to fulfill your purpose in life. You are meant to work in ways that suit you, drawing on your natural talents and gifts. This work, when you find it and commit to it -- even if only as a hobby -- is the key to happiness. Dennis Kimbro All of the other shallow things will not matter. I won’t have any money to leave behind. I won’t have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I want to leave a committed life behind. Martin Luther King, Jr. Life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony. Martin Luther King, Jr. 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. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King Jr. We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Charles Kingsley The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. Barbara Kingsolver The questions asked at the end of lie are very simple ones: Did I love well? Did I love the people around me, my community, the earth, in a deep way? And perhaps, Did I live fully? Did I offer myself to life? Jack Kornfeld If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul. Harold Kushner The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all. Aung San Suu Kyi Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys. Madeleine L’Engle If I’m not free to fail, I’m not free to take risks and everything in life that’s worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk. Madeleine L’Engle There will be a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. Louis L'Amour Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. Doug Larson Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. D.H. Lawrence Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn’t equate… Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don’t have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don’t mean anything. Norman Lear The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Art van der Leeuw Rustout is the slow death that follows when we stop making the choices that keep life alive. It’s the feeling of numbness that comes from always taking the safe way, never accepting new challenges, continually surrendering to the day-to-day routine. Rustout means we are no longer growing, but at best, are simply maintaining. It implies that we have traded the sensation of life for the security of a paycheck…Rustout is the opposite of burnout. Burnout is overdoing. Rustout is underbeing. Richard Leider Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one. John Lennon Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. John Lennon Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs. Michael Levine Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress. Theodore Levitt It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air…but only for one second without hope. Hal Lindsey The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn’t simple. Doris Janzen Longacre If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. Sophia Loren There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. Sophia Loren To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. William Louden Every moment of one's existence, one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. Norman Mailer Life to too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters. Eric Maisel We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. Maxwell Maltz Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again. Og Mandino Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. Joshua J. Marine When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences; we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it. Joan Marques I intend to live forever, or die trying. Groucho Marx In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it…The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life. Abraham Maslow What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization. Abraham Maslow Trust the process of the subtle push toward art and creative expression from inside you – it is the gentle call of your heart and renewed search for soul. It is an opening to expansion of your expressive abilities and the discovery of hidden limitations ready to be challenged. Be open to what it means, it has many possibilities for action in every part of your life. Ultimately it will lead to significant personal changes – to living life in a new way with new tools of creative expression. Donald William Mathews It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. Somerset Maugham All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life. Rollo May Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as being of worth and dignity. Rollo May No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime. James T. McCay The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive – perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine. Mignon McLaughlin Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived. Thomas Merton Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. Henry Miller The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. Henry Miller 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. John Homer Miller There are only two faces to existence – birth and death – and life survives them both, just so sunrise and sunset are not essentially different: it all depends on whether one is facing east or west. Joy Mills Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect. Margaret Mitchell It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. Moliere Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it. L. M. Montgomery Every single thing you've been through in your life has had a purpose. Beth Moore Family life is full of major and minor crises- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce-and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul. Thomas Moore Home is not where you live, but where they understand you. Christian Morgenstern There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley One way we can know that we are aligned with the life force that is God is that we feel more and more alive. Notice what gives you aliveness and what diminishes you, deadens and numbs you so that you only skim the surface of life. Begin to say yes to what quickens and energizes, to that which brings joy and gratitude. Mary Manin Morrissey Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be. Grandma Moses Put a little fun into your life. Try dancing. Kathryn Murray Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it? Caroline Myss You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you’ll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless. Caroline Myss Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. Vladimir Nabokov Dance is life. Stillness is love. Together, they are everything. Debbie Nargi-Brown What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us in our prison, or could it also be a tool for breaking out, for awakening to a life filled with intensity of purpose? Jacob Needleman Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. Jawaharal Nehru Life! Can't live with it, can't live without it. Cynthia Nelma When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. Willie Nelson Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are shaping ourselves at every moment by every decision we make. Kent Nerburn He who has the why to live can bear with almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche Art is the proper task of life. Friedrich Nietzsche Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift – there is nothing small about it. Florence Nightingale Dreams are necessary to life. Anais Nin People living deeply have no fear of death. Anais Nin Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. Anaïs Nin I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by loving. Anaïs Nin Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. Anaïs Nin Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. Anaïs Nin There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart…pursue those. Michael Nolan Life is easier to take than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. Kathleen Norris Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life. Christiane Northrup If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessings in and around us derives from the fact that we are not living the life we love; rather, we are living the life that is expected of us. We have fallen out of rhythm with the secret signature and light of our own nature. John O’Donohue No life, if it is properly realized, is without cosmic importance. Hortense Odlum The secret of life is that all we have and are is a gift of grace to be shared. Lloyd John Ogilvie Surprises are the joy of living. Surprises directly touch the soul. Good surprises energize and bad surprises teach. Alev Oguz To live with an open heart means that pain is no stranger, but wonder will be a constant companion. David Oldfield Instructions for life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. Mary Oliver Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you. Osho Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated! Osho To want to be what one can be is purpose in life. Cynthia Ozick The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done. Arnold Palmer I am leaving this legacy to all of you…to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace. Rosa Parks Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. Linus Pauling Live your life and forget your age. Norman Vincent Peale To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. Joseph Pearce There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community. M. Scott Peck If there is any kindness I can show, any good thing I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. William Penn It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. Pablo Picasso What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pike The life which is not examined is not worth living. Plato Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Plato Earth, ourselves, breathe and awaken, leaves are stirring, all things moving, new day coming, life renewing. Pawnee Prayer When plannnig for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. Chinese Proverb Goals help focus you on areas in both your personal and professional life that are important and meaningful, rather than being guided by what other people want you to be, do, or accomplish. Catherine Pulsifer Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets. Nido Qubein Get a life in which you are generous. Look around at the azaleas in the suburban neighborhood where you grew up; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black, black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it around. Take money...and give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a Big Brother or Sister...You want to do well, but if you do not do good too, then doing well will never be enough. Anna Quindlen In the garden of your days cultivate festivity, play and celebrations. Mary Anne Radmacher 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 Today is a gift I honor by fully living it. Mary Anne Radmacher What if we just acted like everything was easy? Mary Anne Radmacher While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die – whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness. Gilda Radner Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness - not pain or mindless self-indulgence - is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. Ayn Rand Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. Ayn Rand Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. Bernice Johnson Reagon As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more. Jules Renard Creativity is for us all - it's about you, me, and about everyday life. It is about the abundant originality we manifest, and our flexible improvisations, whether teaching a class, raising our kids, fixing the car, helping a client, landscaping the yard, planning a benefit, or trying to figure out why we're on earth. Ruth Richards Our work-a-day lives are filled with opportunities to bless others. The power of a single glance or an encouraging smile must never be underestimated. G. Richard Rieger Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. They only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it’s who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment. Anthony Robbins Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. Anthony Robbins 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. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human. Anthony Robbins Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment. Anthony Robbins Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life. Auguste Rodin The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination. Carl Rogers You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you have to make choices, and hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are. Fred Rogers One person caring about another represents life's greatest value. Jim Rohn When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die. Eleanor Roosevelt Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt The world of reality has its bounds, the world of imagination is boundless. Rousseau Love life and life will love you back. Arthur Rubinstein Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Miguel Ángel Ruiz You are, by accident of fate, alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet. Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something. Carl Sagan We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. Carl Sagan Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it! Sathya Sai Baba What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death. Saint Francis of Assisi Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter. Sharon Salzberg If I had my life to live over…I’d dare to make more mistakes next time. Nadine Sanger A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. May Sarton At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a good mood ever since. Marilyn vos Savant Every achiever that I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me. Robert H. Schuller If you have a goal in life that takes a lot of energy, that requires a lot of work, that incurs a great deal of interest and that is a challenge to you, you will always look forward to waking up to see what the new day brings. Susan Polis Schultz Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use. Charles M. Schulz Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time. Charles M. Schulz To dance is to live! Charles M. Schulz Let me give you the definition of ethics: it is good to maintain life and to further life. It is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion. Albert Schweitzer I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics. Albert Schweitzer Life is sweet when you pay attention. When it doesn't seem sweet, put a sticker on your nose and do a funky dance. Whitney Scott Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition. Florida Scott-Maxwell It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. Vida D. Scudder Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings. Steven Seagal Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. David Searls Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seathl Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way. Bernie Siegel One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world. Hannah Senesh I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. Dr. Seuss Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life. Merle Shain And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed. William Shakespeare Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. George Bernard Shaw If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. Gail Sheely Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love. Barbara Sher When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given. Barbara Sher You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. Barbara Sher You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning. Barbara Sher The significant business of your life is alive and well, awaiting discovery, within your very own soul. You and I were born to come into ourselves as complete and distinctive persons. Accepting this, we build a valuable life. Marsha Sinetar The joy comes when we recognize that whatever situation we may find ourselves in, it’s only a role we are playing. Jean Slatter Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence. Sydney Smith We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today. Sydney Smith An unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates The meaning of earthly existence lies, not as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth. John Philip Souza A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be. Bruce Springsteen Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it. Elaine St. James If you’re gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy. Sylvester Stallone He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much. Bessie Anderson Stanley The heyday of a woman’s life is the shady side of fifty. Elizabeth Cady Stanton It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. John Steinbeck The art of life isn't controlling what happens, which is impossible; it's using what happens. Gloria Steinem The best things in life are the nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Robert Lewis Stevenson The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. Robert Louis Stevenson I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully. Alexandra Stoddard Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. W. Clement Stone Thus should you think of all this fleeting world; a star at dawn, a bubble in a stream; a flash of lightening in a summer cloud, a flickering lamp, a phantom and a dream. Diamond Sutra I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life. D.T. Suzuki Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. Charles R. Swindoll I cannot imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun. Charles R. Swindoll I know of no realm of life that can provide more companionship in a lonely world or greater feelings of security and purpose in chaotic times than the close ties of a family. Charles R. Swindoll Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music... The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside. Rabindranath Tagore When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Where there’s life, there’s hope. Terence Life is a promise; fulfill it. Mother Teresa Life is an adventure, dare it. Mother Teresa It’s never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise. Nancy Thayer All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don’t discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others. Danny Thomas Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. Dorothy Thompson As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. Henry David Thoreau Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. Henry David Thoreau I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau Our life is frittered away by detail…simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau Surely joy is the condition of life. Henry David Thoreau The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. Henry David Thoreau Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of consciousness. Eckhart Tolle Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living. Eckhart Tolle Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the now the primary focus of your life. Eckhart Tolle The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. Leo Tolstoy Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. Leo Tolstoy Joy can be real only if people look upon their lives as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. Leo Tolstoy True life is lived when tiny changes occur. Leo Tolstoy You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts. Brian Tracy Everything in life is luck. Donald Trump There are times to cultivate and create when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are. Chogyam Trungpa All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. Mark Twain Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always. Mark Twain I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Mark Twain If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away. Mark Twain What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written. Mark Twain Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. Ernestine Ulmer The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man’s life; and until he has realized it, he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers. Evelyn Underhill A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life’s worthwhile. Author Unknown Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain. Author Unknown Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well. Marcus Valerius As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. Henry Van Dyke One must work and dare if one really wants to live. Vincent van Gogh What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Vincent van Gogh What am I doing? I am letting life rain upon me. Rahel Varnhagen The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude. Voltaire At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I’ve been in a generally good mood ever since. Marilyn vos Savant Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy. Denis Waitley Happiness is a spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. Denis Waitley It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. Denis Waitley A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. Denis Waitley Life is like a game of chess…there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move…where you wind up is the sum total of all your past moves…but first you have to make some kind of move. Mort Walker Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want To Be. Neale Donald Walsch The laws are very simple: thought is creative; fear attracts like energy; love is all there is. Neale Donald Walsch Life is not a problem to solve, it’s a gift to cherish. Don Ward The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself. Wallace D. Wattles Life is not a problem to be solved, nor a question to be answered. Life is a mystery to be experienced. Alan Watts Creativity is a rare part of living. It's fundamental. None of us can squelch our creativity without feeling less than whole, incomplete and depressed. Lynn Weiss There’ll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read ‘em. But all that’s gonna matter is the little dash between ‘em. Kevin Welsh To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less. Chu Hui Weng If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine. Morris West It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Marcia Wieder The opposite of love is not hate, its indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, its indifference. Elie Wiesel When you die and go to heaven, our maker is not going to ask, Why didn’t you discover the cure for such and such? The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is, Why didn’t you become you? Elie Wiesel Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. Oscar Wilde Live the wonderful life that is in you. Oscar Wilde The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. Oscar Wilde The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us. Marianne Williamson The spiritual path – is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don’t know it. Marianne Williamson At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving. Woodrow Wilson Nothing but what you volunteer has the essence of life, the springs of pleasure in it. These are the things you do because you want to do them, the things your spirit has chosen for its satisfaction. The more you are stimulated to such action the more clearly does it appear to you that you are a sovereign spirit, put into the world, not to wear a harness, but to work eagerly without it. Woodrow Wilson You are not here merely to make a living, you are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself when you forget that errand. Woodrow Wilson I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life. Oprah Winfrey Every day, passion speaks to us through our feelings. That’s why when you allow yourself to become anesthetized by what others think, you literally block yourself from living the life you were called to live. I promise you that if you make a choice that doesn’t please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart. The people who truly love you want you to love yourself. Oprah Winfrey I live in the space of thankfulness – and I have been rewarded a million times over for it. I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased. That’s because what you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life. Oprah Winfrey I trust in the ebb and flow of the universe. I trust that life’s bigger than what I can see. I trust that there is a divine order beyond my control. And I trust that no matter what happens, I will be all right. Oprah Winfrey If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. Oprah Winfrey It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn – which is what life is all about. Oprah Winfrey Our beliefs can move us forward in life – or they can hold us back. Oprah Winfrey What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter. Oprah Winfrey When you make loving others the story of your life, there’s never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another. Oprah Winfrey You become what you believe – not what you wish or want but what you truly believe. Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there. Oprah Winfrey You must define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script. Oprah Winfrey 1. The path is not straight, 2. Mistakes need not be fatal. 3. People are more important than achievements or possessions. 4. Be gentle with your parents. 5. Never stop doing what you care most about. 6. Learn to use a semicolon. 7. You will find love. Marion Winik A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove…but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child. Forest E. Witcraft You can’t base your life on other people’s expectations. Stevie Wonder Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. Virginia Woolf In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us. Virginia Woolf You cannot find peace by avoiding life. Virginia Woolf There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day. Alexander Woollcott …with an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. William Wordsworth The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life. William Wordsworth Early in life I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise. Malcolm X If you want to make the days of your life really matter, then you must love something. Kobi Yamada Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Yoda If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. Lin Yutang A pessimist is a person who is seasick during the entire voyage of life. Zig Ziglar Return from Life Quotes and Sayings about Living to the Quotes Listed by Subject page
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