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Life is like a box of chocolates.
- Forrest Gump
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My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump
I don't know if we each have a destiny,
or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze.
But I, I think maybe it's both.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Momma always said dyin' was a part of life.
I sure wish it wasn't.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
It happens - Sometimes.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The Book of Life is a Book of Riddles,
with its Real Lessons Writ Small in the Margins.
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Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi
The greatest obstacle to a Joyful Life
is your "story" about your life.
Your story is filled with perceives needs and obligations.
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Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
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It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Life doesn't step on your toes when you Dance Lightly.
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Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
Life is a gift, and I try to respond with grace and courtesy.
- Maya Angelou
The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is serious? Why?
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It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
Life must be lived as play.
- Plato
Life is all in the perspective we take on it.
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Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life is a grand adventure - enjoy the ride.
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Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu
As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
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Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
Life is a balance between rest and movement.
- Osho
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
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Life is all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
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When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
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Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
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Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
It is easier to put on slippers
than to carpet the entire world
- Al Franken
Fear is the root of the tree of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If we like what we do, if we always do our best,
then we are really enjoying life.
We are having fun, we don't get bored,
we don't have frustrations.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Henry David Thoreau
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