Famous Life Quotes

"What is this life if full of care; we have no time to stand and

stare." These famous lines from the poem Leisure by W H Davis
sum up my attitude towards life. The life we lead must be worth
living. Find out what famous personalities think about life, with
these famous life quotes.

A Zen Saying
Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by
itself.

Ernest L. Woodward
So great has been the endurance, so incredible the
achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in
heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human race.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so
much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts
itself to a very few hours.

Samuel Johnson
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.

Thomas Fuller
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run
away.

Jane Rubietta
Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and
fresh and you were innocent. Anger is natural. Grief is
appropriate. Healing is mandatory. Restoration is possible.

Stephen Covey
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

Kenneth Hildebrand
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.

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 Vincent Lombardi
Success demands singleness of purpose.

Booker T. Washington
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one
has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

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 ~ Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ~
Grandma Moses

~ Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we

have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect
a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. ~
Anais Nin

~ If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our

whole life would change. ~
Buddha

~ Life would be much easier if I had the source code. ~

Unknown

~ Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes
rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your
shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and
pass a very comfortable night. ~
Marion Howard

~ I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around
until you get used to it. ~
Charles Schulz

~ Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for

the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise. ~
Jerome K. Jerome

~ Life is just a chance to grow a soul. ~

A. Powell Davies

~ Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and
sometimes you weep. ~

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 Carl Sandburg

~ In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. ~

Kathy Norris

~ Life is the game that must be played. ~

Edwin Arlington Robinson

~ In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about

life. It goes on. ~
Robert Frost

~ Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our

security, guidance, wisdom, and power. ~
Stephen Covey

~ Unless there is a vast alteration in manís civilization as it

stumbles along today,man will not be here very long. ~
L. Ron Hubbard

~ I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in

life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken
his days ~
L. Ron Hubbard

~ I know that a life has high value, but our rights, our
independence,our honour have a higher value than life. ~
Vellupillai Pirapakaran

~ Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. ~

Christopher Morley

~ As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in

repose. ~
Unknown

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~ Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you
only spend it once. ~
Lillian Dickson

~ And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's
the life in your years. ~
Abraham Lincoln

~ The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~

Robert Byrne

~ Life is simple, its just not easy. ~

Unknown

~ A life without cause is a life without effect. ~

Barbarella

~ My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. ~
Ashleigh Brilliant

~ Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. ~

Unknown

~ We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what

we give. ~
Winston Churchill

~ The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. ~

Zeno

~ Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of
a leaf. ~
Toni Morrison

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~ Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what
you put into it. ~
Tom Lehrer

~ It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be
read. ~
Thomas Jefferson

~ Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is

gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to
ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with
life. ~
Thich Nhat Hanh

~ There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe

everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from
thinking. ~
Theodore Rubin

~ Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some

new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when
some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is
formed, when some task is well done. ~
Sophia Lyon Fahs

~ I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and

sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely.
A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other. ~
Sean O'Casey

~ Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending

oneself that one becomes rich. ~
Sarah Bernhardt

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 ~ The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding;
your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be. ~
Raymond Charles Barker

~ Life is "trying things to see if they work." ~

Ray Bradbury

~ Life is a progress, and not a station. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be

understood. ~
Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass

through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which
paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies
in its own focus. ~
Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by

continuing to play in face of certain defeat. ~
Ralph Ellison

~ The purpose of your existence is yours alone to discover. ~

Steve Pavlina

~ If you follow a universal principle, it positively impacts all

areas of your life. Universal principles don’t compartmentalize.
~
Steve Pavlina

~ If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need
to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don`t appreciate
the moment until it's passed. ~
Kanye West

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~ The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of
life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that
exist in all of creation. ~
Michael Jackson

~ I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. ~

Jack Handey

~ Why torture yourself when life'll do it for you? ~

Unknown

~ Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more
than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. ~
George Bernard Shaw

~ Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four

acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like
bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break
without having enjoyed them is a complete fool. ~
Gioacchino Rossini

~ Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be

but a perpetual improvisation. ~
W. Somerset Maugham

~ Human life is purely a matter of deciding what's important to

you. ~
Unknown

~ We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself. ~

Antonio Porchia

~ An authentic life is the most personal form of worship.

Everyday life has become my prayer. ~

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 Sarah Ban Breathnach

~ The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and
day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It
is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth
in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous
waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in
the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel
my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life.
And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood
this moment. ~
Rabindranath Tagore

~ Each person must live their life as a model for others. ~

Rosa Parks

~ We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we

are willing to die for it. ~
Ernesto Che Guevara

~ There are many problems in life where the solution is largely

a brainless time investment. ~
Steve Pavlina

~ Work to connect yourself to the "allness" of life -- instead of

identifying with the smallness of it -- and you'll awaken to a
greatness already living within you that is no more bothered by
the little things in life than a mountain is made miserable by the
rain that falls upon it. ~
Guy Finley

~ A lot of pressure for one human being. ~

Kanye West

~ Life... is like a box of chocolates - a cheap, thoughtless,

perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for, unreturnable because
all you get back is another box of chocolates. So, you're stuck
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with mostly undefinable whipped mint crap, mindlessly wolfed
down when there's nothing else to eat while you're watching
the game. Sure, once is a while you get a peanut butter cup or
an English toffee but it's gone too fast and the taste is fleeting.
In the end, you are left with nothing but broken bits filled with
hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, which, if you are
desperate enough to eat, leaves nothing but an empty box of
useless brown paper. ~
The X-Files

~ My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning

and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I
can. ~
Cary Grant

~ Feeling dissatisfied over what life presents in any given

moment is like standing before the whole ocean and getting
negative because part of you believes there?s only one place to
enter its waters where it?s possible to enjoy yourself. ~
Guy Finley

~ This can't be life. ~

Kanye West

~ If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would

be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is
your pleasure. ~
Kanye West

~ It all starts right there ~

Kanye West

Below find three beautiful thoughts of Day for you. Hope these
thoughts will inspire you to live a more fulfilling life.

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1) Realize that life is a School and you are here to learn, pass all
your tests. Problems are simply part of curriculum that appear
and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you will learn
will last a lifetime.
2) Life isn’t fair but it’s still good.
3) Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

1) Happiness does not come when we have everything in life

but it comes when we learn to live with anything which life
provides to us.
2) It is not very difficult to have an interesting life; we can
have it if we only dare to think out of our conventional
lines.
3) There are only few true people in any person’s life and
rest are just part of a big crowd.
4) Emotions are great instruments available in our hands
to tell what is going on in our mind.
5) Sex is a meditation if we are truly in love with our
partner.
6) Madness sometimes helps us to explore new horizons of
life which otherwise we can never find.
7) I am happy because I want to be happy and I am sad
because I want to be sad, it is as simple as it looks.
8) Happiness comes from within only and no one in this
world can offer it, unless we first find it within.
9) It is important to first search deep within then to look
for remaining things in outer world.
10) We become strong with surrender and not with
achievements.

1) कोई भी अपने बीते समय को बदल नही सकता, पर हम अपने आज को खराब

कर सकते है आने वाले कल के बारे मे जाएदा सोच कर.
2) भगवान उसके िलए बहु त अचछा करता है जो वयिक सब कु छ भगवन पे छोड
दे त ा है .
3) हर वयिक एक ही भाषा मै हसता है
4) माँ बाप के िलए वै स ा जीवन जीना बहु त जररी है जो वह अपने बचचो को
िसकना चाहते है .
5) अगर हम अपने जीवन को िपछले कल के पछतावे से और आने वाले कल की

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 िचं त ा से भर ले ते है , तो हमारे पास शुि कया करने के िलए आज नही रहता है .
6) आज िकए गई चुन ाव हमारे कल को पभािबत करते है .
7) बुरे शबद िकसी को शारीरक चोट नही पहु ं च ाते है पर िदल को तोड दे ते है .

The Most difficult phases in life is not when no one understands

you; It is when you don't understand yourself..."

We are all something, but none of us are everything.

"The Permanent Temptation of life is to confuse dreams with

reality. But the permanent Defeat of life is when we surrender
our dreams to reality.."

"A human being knows enough, but that knowledge needs to be

brought into daily life. If this is not done, knowledge remains
limited within the boundaries of knowing only.”

"Any Fool can criticize, condemn and complain --- and most fool
do.
But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and
forgiving." - Dale Carnegie

"No one has to stay stuck. If you are serious, you can change
old patterns. You're a human being- you're not a tree."

"No Time is a perfect time. If you really want to do something,

you have to put the time aside, and then just do it." - Colin
Martin

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 "The happiest people don't bother about whether life is fair,
They just make the most of what they have.

And is life "fair"? Probably not. But it doesn't matter why!" - by

Andrew Matthews

"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too
high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." –
Michelangelo

1) “If we learn to translate every event of our life into a positive

one, we will stop being a prisoner of our past and become
architect of our future.” – Unknown Author
2) “Realize that life is a School and you are here to learn, pass
all your tests. Problems are simply part of curriculum that
appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you will
learn will last a lifetime.”
3) “Life isn’t fair but it’s still good.”
4) “Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.”
5) " No man in the world is rich enough to to buy his own PAST.
So enjoy each moment before it gets beyond reach..."-Author
Unknown
6) "A BIRD SITTING ON THE BRANCH OF A TREE IS NOT AFRAID
BY THE SHAKING BRANCH. BECAUSE BIRD TRUSTS NOT THE
BRANCH BUT HIS OWN WINGS"- Author unknown
7) "Selfishness contracts the personality rather than allowing it
to expand to universal awareness."-By Swami RAMA
8) "Ignorant and unjust people are spiritually blind. Becuase of
their selfish way of life, they do not accept reality."
9) "Young Age is the Budding Period of the Flower of Life and It
needs protection so that the diverse opinions of others do not
create confusion in the mind." By Swami Rama
10) "A person's strength needs to be tested often so that he
learns to be self-reliant." -by Swami Rama
11) "Beauty is to be admired and not to be used, possessed, or

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 destroyed."
12) "Being proud of one's own virtues and finding fault with
others are the two defects which we do not preceive in us,
though we do possess these."
13) "One, who is not a slave to sleep, idleness and wordly
pleasures, but is a slave (devotee) to God; God listens to such a
person and even obeys him." - Srimad Bhagavadgita
14) "This world is a mixture of two things: the good and the
bad. The wise man selects and takes the good and leaves the
bad."
15) "Beauty remains bound within the limitations of human
realms if it is not appreciated heartily" - by Swami Rama
16)"When people know you have given your very best, then
they will usually support you."- Andrew Matthews
17)"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now.
Don't wait for
something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.
Think how
really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at
work or with
your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savoured."-
Earl Nightingale
18)"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too
high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
-Michelangelo
19)"The happiest people don't bother about whether life is fair,
They just make the most of what they have.

And is life "fair"? Probably not. But it doesn't matter why!" - by

Andrew Matthews
20)"No Time is a perfect time. If you really want to do
something, you have to put the time aside, and then just do it."
- Colin Martin
21)"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the
judgement that something else is more important than
fear." author unknown
22)"No one has to stay stuck. If you are serious, you can

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change old patterns. You're a human being- you're not a tree." -
BY Andrew Matthews

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