Quotes about life
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being 'alone': You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I'm talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age.
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.
There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
Life is surreal and beautiful.
Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
