Life Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 29



I’ve learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now.
Robert Brault

People know you for what you’ve done, not for what you plan to do.
Anonymous

Love doesn’t make the world go ’round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
Arthur Schopenhauer

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
Mary McCarthy

Life is a dead-end street.
H. L. Mencken

The greatest quest in life is to reach one’s potential.
Mychal Wynn

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn’t.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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

I used to trouble about what life was for — now being alive seems sufficient reason.
Joanna Field

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Buddha

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Epictetus

To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to create life out of life.
James Joyce

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Tony Robbins

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory.
Susan B. Anthony

Life is supposed to get tough.
Kelsey Grammer

You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.
Zig Ziglar

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.
Henry Van Dyke

When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.
Stedman Graham

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
Sir William Osler

The gains in life come slowly and the losses come on suddenly. You work for years to get your life the way you want it and buy the big house and the time share on Antigua and one afternoon you
Garrison Keillor

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
Les Brown

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert Einstein

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Denis Waitley

Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
Herman Melville

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