1,004 private quotes tagged life

“Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.” — Bradley Whitford

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“I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, 'OK, I'm looking back on my life. I want to minimize the number of regrets I have.'” — Jeff Bezos

Context:On why he started Amazon

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“Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.” — Napoleon Hill

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“Life is not perfect. It never will be. You just have to make the very best of it. And you have to open your heart to what the world can show you. And sometimes it's terrifying. And sometimes it's incredibly beautiful. And I'll take both, thanks.” — Graham Nash

Source:Wisdom (2008). Film.

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“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” — Buddha

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“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.” — Lao Tzu

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“Without health, life is not life, it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.” — Buddha

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“A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.” — Carl Sandburg

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“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.” — Plato

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“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” — Steve Jobs

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“Without music, life would be a mistake.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.” — Jerzy Gregorek

Source:https://tim.blog/2017/03/16/jerzy-gregorek/

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“I love those who yearn for the impossible.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” — Bruce Lee

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“You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.” — Deepak Chopra

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“If one day the speed kills me, do not cry because I was smiling.” — Paul Walker

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“Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.” — Dale Carnegie

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“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.” — Rumi

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“Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.” — Buddha

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“I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.” — Steve Jobs

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“Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.” — Arthur C. Clarke

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“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” — Thomas A. Edison

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