Quotes about life
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Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.
Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
Augustus William Hare, Julius Charles Hare, "Guesses at Truth"
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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.
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
It's fun to have a partner who understands your life and lets you be you.
We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.
The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.
Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.
