Quotations similar to LIFE - PURPOSE
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Compiled by Che Garman
A life lived by choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived by chance is a life of unconscious reaction. - Neale Donald Walsch
A successful life depends less on how long you live than on how much you can pack into the time you have. - John Templeton
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any life truly lived is a risky business, and if one puts up too many fences against the risks one ends by shutting out life itself. - Kenneth S Davis
As long as you live, keep learning how to live. - Seneca
Awaken your sense, your intuition, your desires. Awaken the parts of yourself that have been sleeping. Life is a dream, and to live it, your must be awake. - Rachel Snyder
Be so busy loving your life you have no time for hate, regret or fear. - Karen Salmanson
Between each dawn and setting sun, set aside some time for fun. - Unknown
Challenges make life interesting, however, overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. - Mark Twain
Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt. Live like it's heaven on Earth. - Mark Twain
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. - Alan Sachs
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. - Bertolt Brecht
Do not regret growing older. It's a privilege denied to many. - Unknown
Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it? - Caroline Myss
Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. - Grace Hansen
Don’t put off living to next week, next month, next year or next decade. The only time you’re ever living is in this moment. - Celestine Chua
Don't take life so seriously. It isn't permanent. - Unknown
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. - Benjamin Franklin
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. - Goethe
Every survival kit should include a sense of humor. - Unknown
Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. -Shari R. Barr
Fear less; hope more. Eat less; chew more. Sigh less; breathe more. Hate less; love more, and all good things are yours. - Swedish Proverb
Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future. - Osho
God asks no person whether he or she will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how. - Henry Beecher
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. - Voltaire
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. - Robert Cody
I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. - Diane Ackerman
I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps this is because escape is easier than change. - Jim Rohn
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. - Arthur Rubinstein
I love life because what more is there. - Anthony Hopkins
If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves. - Zig Ziglar
In life you are either a passenger or a pilot, it’s your choice. - Unknown
In school you're taught lessons and then given a test. In life you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. - Tom Bodett
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. - Charlie Brown
In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go? - Buddha
In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away. - Shing Xiong
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. - Laura Ingalls Wilder
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. - Napoleon Hill
It’s not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you. - Zig Ziglar
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. - Paulo Coelho
Learn from the past. Live in the present. Look to the future. - Andy Gilbert
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. - Albert Einstein
Life appears to me to be too short to be spent in nursing animosity or in registering wrongs. - Charlotte Bronte
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement. - Henry Miller
Life can only be understood backwards, but can only be lived forwards. - Unknown
Life can’t give to you if your hands are closed. Open your mind, open your heart, and open your arms. - Louise Hay
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. - Josh Billings
Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient. - Steve Maraboli
Life doesn't require that we be the best - only that we try our best. - H Jackson Brown Jr
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. - Sarah Bernhardt
Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving. - Michael J. Gelb
Life is a continuous process of getting used to things we hadn't expected. - Martha Lupton
Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. - Thomas Holdcroft
Life is a highway - the enjoyment you get depends on the lane you choose. - John Fuhrman
Life is a leap into the unknown. If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster. - Bill Harris
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. - Ernest Holmes
Life is a narrative that you have a hand in writing. - Henriette Anne Klauser
Life is a piano; what you get out of it depends on how you play it. - Unknown
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. - Helen Keller
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed. - Corita Kent
Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. - Unknown
Life is an unfolding in which we can participate. - Anne Wilson Schaef
Life is as fleeting as a rainbow, a flash of lightning, a star at dawn. Knowing this, how can you quarrel. - Buddha
Life is Change. Growth is Optional. Choose Wisely. - Karen Kaiser Clark
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller
Life is just one damned thing after another. - Elbert Hubbard
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. - Lillian Dickson
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. - Jawaharlal Nehru
Life is like a grinding stone - it can polish you or pulverize you - depending on how you position yourself. - Larry De Angelo
Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. - Peace Pilgrim
Life is like a taxi... The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still. - Lou Erickson
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. - Charles Schulz
Life is like photography; we develop from the negatives. - Unknown
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler
Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives. - Trinidad Hunt
Life is never fair, and it perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. - Oscar Wilde
Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce. - Vivian Komori
Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, It is about learning to dance in the rain. - Unknown
Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it, as it is, is the only way of being happy. - Jennie Jerome Churchill
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by day, in all the thousand small, uncaring ways. - Stephen Vincent Benet
Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one. - Jacob Needleman
Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you deal with it is what makes the difference. - Virginia Satir
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. - Confucius
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John W Gardner
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. - Marge Piercy
Life is the sum of all your choices. - Albert Camus
Life is too important to be taken seriously. - Oscar Wilde
Life is trying things to see if they work. - Ray Bradbury
Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift. - Regina Brett
Life isn't what you want it to be, it's what you make it become. - Anthony Ryan
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance. - Unknown
Life, like all other games, becomes fun when one realizes that it's just a game. - Nerijus Stasiulis
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance. - Unknown
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. - Bernice Johnson Reagon
Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying. - Charles F Geller
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit. - Henry David Thoreau
Live exuberantly with purpose and excitement. Truly make your daily life an adventure. - Henry Leo Bolduc
Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you. - Jeff Bridges
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point. - Harold B Melchart
Live your life so that your children won't have to lie at your funeral. - Unknown
Make each day your masterpiece. - John Wooden
Make the best of everything that comes in-between; birth - life - death; seize the moment. - Will Rivera
Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine. - Buddha
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies. - Erich Fromm
Never be a victim of life; be its conqueror. - Mike Norton
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. - Ann Landers
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. - Dale Carnegie
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. - William Feather
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, Simplify! - Henry David Thoreau
People are lucky if they are too busy to brood in the daytime and too tired at night to lay awake worrying. - Unknown
People living deeply have no fear of death. - Anais Nin
Recognize that life is what you get when you're born... living is what you do with it. - Jim Allen
Sit loosely in the saddle of life. - Robert Louis Stevenson
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh. - Freeman Dyson
Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what? - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. - Dr Wayne Dyer
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? - Mary Oliver
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. - Robert Loius Stevenson
The art of life is a constant re-adjustment to our surroundings. - Kakuzo Okakaura
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. - Oprah Winfrey
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge. - Bertrand Russell
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. - Ben Okri
The person who lives life fully, glowing with life's energy, is the person who lives a successful life. - Daisaku Ikeda
The tests of life are not meant to break you, but to make you. - Norman Vincent Peale
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a person may live long yet live very little. - Montaigne
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. - Les Brown
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. - Alfred Korzybski
There are two worlds: the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we can feel with our hearts and imagination. - Leigh Hunt
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. - Erich Fromm
These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. - William James
Those who allow their days to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures are like a blacksmith's bellows - they breathe but they do not live. - Unknown
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. - Spinoza
To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one. - Jack Kornfield
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all. - Oscar Wilde
To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution. - Joe Cordare
To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it. - Wendall Berry
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. - Unknown
Too many folks go through life running from something that isn't after them. - Unknown
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death. - James F Bymes
Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss. - Unknown
Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow. - Stephen Covey
We are born princes and princesses …and the civilising process makes us frogs. - Eric Berne
We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it. - Paul Hawken
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when adults are afraid of the light. - Plato
We cannot put off living until we're ready. Life is fired at us point blank. - Jose Ortega
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what? - Sydney Harris
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. - Greg Anderson
When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive. - Seneca
Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life. - R D Laing
Whether we’re prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us. - Lucille Ball
Will you look back on life and say, "I wish I had", or "I’m glad I did"? - Zig Ziglar
Work on seeing life not as a restriction, but as an opportunity for fulfillment. - Clare Wilde
You are living in a dream of your own creation. Let it be the dream of a lifetime, for that is exactly what it is. - Neale Donald Walsh
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. - Evan Esar
You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself. - Jane Seymour
You know, we can't get out of life alive. We can either die in the bleachers or die in the field. We might as well come down on the field and go for it! - Les Brown
You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. - Ruth E Renkl
You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give. - Winston Churchill
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. - Mae West
You’ve got one life to live. Make this one count. - Kevin Ngo
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