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Welcome to this collection of Amazing Quotes to Live By - the best of the best. These quotes range from classic to modern and touch on many aspects of life - from love to faith, courage to forgiveness.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
-
Oliver Wendell Holmes
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene
Life is a song - sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it.
Life is love - enjoy it.
-
Sai Baba
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
-
Helen Keller
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
-
Helen Keller
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
-
Helen Keller
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
-
Confucius
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
-
John Lennon
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
-
Marie Curie
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
-
Joseph Campbell
Life is a long lesson in humility.
-
James M. Barrie
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
-
Oscar Wilde
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
-
Mark Twain
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-
Anais Nin
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
- Mark Twain
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
Affirmation: I Act with Bold Courage - Taking inspiration from the powerful vision of my future, I boldly set sail with courage and intent. I hold my course with focused attention and relentless commitment, as I weather the storms of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage is not always about action, and it doesn't always involve danger, but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.
I love you for that part of me you bring out.
- Roy Croft
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
-Martin Luther King, Jr. .
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-
Victor Hugo
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles Schulz' Peanuts comic
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are, "I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
-
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
- A Course In Miracles
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The time is always right to do what is right.
-
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi)
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
- Norman Cousins
You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else - Forgiving is your gift to yourself - a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Fate makes us family; choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
-
Anaïs Nin
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Anonymous
A friend is someone who understands my past, believes in my future, and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A lifelong friend is someone you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
-
Meister Eckhart
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church.
For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the Spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
-
Ernest Holmes
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-
H. L. Mencken
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
-
Robert A. Heinlein
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
- Woody Allen
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
-
Mark Twain
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
-
Isaac Asimov
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