Quotes about life
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Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that if you have those two things, everything else falls into place - your affection, your emotional connection.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
I don't spend much time looking back at what happened. I do remember it, but I don't see any purpose of wanting to look back.
We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children.
Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Into each life some rain must fall.
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.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
Wellness is not a 'medical fix' but a way of living — a lifestyle sensitive and responsive to all the dimensions of body, mind, and spirit, an approach to life we each design to achieve our highest potential for well-being now and forever.
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
