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20 Best Life Quotes
20 Best Life Quotes
These are twenty of the best life quotes I've collected over the past few years. You'll see inspirational
quotes from Bob Proctor, Jim Rohn, Virginia Satir, Joseph Campbell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark
Victor Hansen, and others.
1. The biggest gap in your life is that between what you know and what you do.
Bob Proctor
2. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole
experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is a daring
Helen Keller
3. The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and
love.
William Wordsworth
4. Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and
Humphrey Davy
5. A man's life is interesting primarily when he had failed, for it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clemenceau
6. Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to
change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious ambiguity.
Gilda Radner
7. Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.
Jim Rohn
Soren Kierkegaard
Nietsche
10. Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the
difference.
Virginia Satir
11. Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles Schultz
12. Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering
everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how
it ends.
Joseph Campbell
13. The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Miller
14. Life's gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it.
Alan Cohen
15. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
16. The special life is where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, the natural becomes miraculous, the
everyday becomes unique. Finding the magic and wonder within nature is the most assured means
17. Life is an inside-out game. The truth is that all our situations and circumstances have their
beginnings in our minds. Our idea of who we are creates who we become - the great news is you
18. Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
19. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
20. Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved
body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming --
Bill McKenna