Quotes about life
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It's fun to have a partner who understands your life and lets you be you.
The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.
Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.
Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
Our lives improve only when we take chances — and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things — of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
If you go around being afraid, you're never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you've got to have fun.
Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.
The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.
What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you — what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind — you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.