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215 Quotes on Life
I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
Woody Allen
In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way.
Woody Allen
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Buddha
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Buddha
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
Buddha
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.
Warren Buffett
It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked.
Warren Buffett
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
Albert Camus
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.
Albert Camus
The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.
Andrew Carnegie
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
Every man is the son of his own works.
Miguel de Cervantes
Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.
Miguel de Cervantes
Well, there's a remedy for all things except death.
Miguel de Cervantes
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
Coco Chanel
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Coco Chanel
Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
Coco Chanel
I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.
Coco Chanel
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
Coco Chanel
Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.
Coco Chanel
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Paulo Coelho
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
Paulo Coelho
One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.
Paulo Coelho
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
Paulo Coelho
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.
Paulo Coelho
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.
Paulo Coelho
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us.
Paulo Coelho
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci
Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da Vinci
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Dalai Lama
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Dalai Lama
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
Dalai Lama
Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
Dalai Lama
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Dalai Lama
Have no fear of perfection — you'll never reach it.
Salvador Dalí
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
Salvador Dalí
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
Salvador Dalí
Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy of being Salvador Dalí.
Salvador Dalí
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
You become responsible forever for what you've tamed.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
Wayne W. Dyer
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last.
Wayne W. Dyer
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Wayne W. Dyer
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
Thomas Alva Edison
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Albert Einstein
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves.
Theodor Fontane
Error is also fine, as long as we don't stay in it.
Theodor Fontane
To do what you love — that is freedom.
Theodor Fontane
The secret of life is to take the good things when they come.
Theodor Fontane
Only he who knows his weakness will ever become strong.
Theodor Fontane
Old age is only bearable if one has not lost the desire to become young again.
Theodor Fontane
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Henry Ford
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges.
Anatole France
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin
I am a marvellous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
By seeking and blundering we learn.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest Hemingway
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are stronger at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact.
Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
William James
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs
Stay hungry, stay foolish.
Steve Jobs
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant
We see things not as they are, but as we are.
Immanuel Kant
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
Immanuel Kant
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
Martin Luther King Jr.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Lao Tzu
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Lao Tzu
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu
The first condition of immortality is death.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Have you noticed that the easiest people to get along with are those who agree with you?
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Be like water making its way through cracks.
Bruce Lee
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Bruce Lee
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Bruce Lee
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
Nelson Mandela
I learned that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Nelson Mandela
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment — is to live dangerously.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell
Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso
Your past does not equal your future.
Anthony Robbins
It is not what we get, but who we become, what we contribute — that gives meaning to our lives.
Anthony Robbins
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Jim Rohn
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
Jim Rohn
The major key to your better future is you.
Jim Rohn
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
War does not determine who is right — only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Bertrand Russell
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
William Shakespeare
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
William Shakespeare
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow.
William Shakespeare
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Youth is wasted on the young.
George Bernard Shaw
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
Mark Twain
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
Mark Twain
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
Voltaire
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George Washington
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
I can resist anything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
People often say motivation doesn't last. Neither does bathing — that's why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig Ziglar