1,004 private quotes tagged life

“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” — Joseph Addison

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“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.” — Dale Carnegie

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“Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.” — Norman Vincent Peale

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“Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.” — Red Skelton

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“When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.” — Debra Messing

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“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.” — George Washington Carver

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“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” — Melody Beattie

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“Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.” — Eminem

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“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.” — Arthur Miller

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“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.” — William Arthur Ward

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“Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.” — Thomas Merton

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“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” — Simone Weil

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“Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.” — Bill Hicks

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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” — Sylvia Plath

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“I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” — Georgia O'Keeffe

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“That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.” — Clyde Tombaugh

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“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!” — Bob Marley

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“People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.” — Summer Altice

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“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.” — Seneca

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“The less routine the more life.” — Amos Bronson Alcott

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“Life has a higher end, than to be amused.” — William Ellery Channing

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“Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.” — George Gershwin

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“I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.” — Judy Collins

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“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.” — William Osler

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“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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