Life Quotes

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I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

- Franklin P. Jones

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

- Theodore Rubin

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back: a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

- Anais Nin

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death

- James F. Bymes

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our own time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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 opposite of love is not hate, it's 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, it's indifference.

(Oct. 1986)

- Elie Wiesel

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

- Robert Frost

[I]f you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.

- Marian Anderson

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Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

- Marge Piercy

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

There are two ways of living: a man may be casual and simply exist, or constructively and deliberately try to do so. The constructive idea implies a constructiveness not only about one's own life, but about that of society, and the future possibilities of mankind.

- Sir Julian Huxley

May you live all the days of your life.

- Jonathan Swift

Look, I really don't want to wax philosophical, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.

- Mel Brooks

Life is hard right up until the moment it isn't.

- Sue Morter

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Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

- Denis Waitley

Ethics should precede economics... We know this because we've seen the results of capitalism without conscience: the pollution of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat; the endangerment of workers; and the sale of dangerous products -- from cars to toys to drugs. All in pursuit of greater and greater profits.

- Arianna Huffington

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

- Victor Hugo

If I could give you one key, and one key only to more abundant life, I would give you a sense of your own worth, an unshakeable sense of your own dignity as one grounded in the source of the cosmic dance, as one who plays a unique part in the unfolding of the story of the world...

- Greta Crosby

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something -- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

- Steve Jobs

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

- Steve Jobs

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