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Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
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We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
Life is serious? Why?
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Life is a game.
Keep it light and playful.
Tease life, taunt life,
never attack life head-on.
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There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
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
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
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
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
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
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What is called genius is the
abundance of life and health.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
Recognize that "suffering is optional," and develop daily habits
that support living a joyful and productive life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Life doesn't step on your toes when you Dance Lightly.
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Life must be lived as play.
- Plato
Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.
- Anonymous
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Henry David Thoreau
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.
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Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life is all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
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Make a conscious choice to live
a serene and stress-free life.
Stress is always waiting just outside your door
like a vicious wild-dog.
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To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
Life is a balance between rest and movement.
- Osho
Hitch a Ride on the River of Life.
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I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Fear is the root of the tree of suffering.
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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
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Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling
Life is a nurturing mother,
when you just remember to say "thank you."
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
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
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Go forth, and play joyfully in the garden of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
Life doesn't play favorites.
- Anonymous
We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
- Bradley Whitford
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung
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 in our point-of-view.
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A life, deeply rooted, lives and grows in memory.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
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
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest obstacle to a Joyful Life
is your "story" about your life.
Your story is filled with perceives needs and obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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