Life
518 quotes: 30 by Keith Craft, 488 from other voices.
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- ‘Crazy-busy’ is a great armor, it’s a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we’re feeling and what we really need can’t catch up with us.
- Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.
- Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.
- Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.
- 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?
- Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
- Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life was meant to be.
- Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
- Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.
- Don’t hope for a life without problems. There’s no such thing. Instead, hope for a life full of good problems.
- Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.
- Dost thou love life? then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
- Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
- Every day is a day to be thankful. Life's abundance has no limit, and gratitude is what keeps that abundance flowing. In every circumstance there is something for which to be thankful. Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope.
- Every day is a little life; and our whole life but a day repeated.
- Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Therefore live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate.
- Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts which he has built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law which cannot err.
- Every moment, as it passes, is of infinite value, for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
- Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.
- Every time a man smiles, much more when he laughs, it adds something to his fragment of life.
- Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.
- Everything that happens to you is a form of instruction if you pay attention.
- Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.Thomas CarlyleSourced
- Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves.
- Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
- Fear tricks us into living a boring life.
- Five minutes after you die you'll know how you should have lived.
- For it all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
- For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
- Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
- Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
- Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying, And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying.Robert HerrickCommonly attributed
- Getting to the next level of life involves reaching another level of self-discipline.
- Go deep enough, there is music everywhere.
- 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.
- Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day. They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives.
- Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
- Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
- Happiness consists in the enjoyment of little pleasures scattered along the common path of life, which, in the eager search for some great and exciting joy, we are apt to overlook.
- Happiness is a direction, not a place.