“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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“Bad things do happen how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.”
“Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.”
“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”
“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”
“Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.”
“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.”
“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.”
“All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.”
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”
“Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.”
“There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.”
“Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.”
“I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.”
“I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.”
“Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.”
“As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.”
“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.”
“Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.”
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.”
“Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”
“Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.”
“I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.”