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Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie
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You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie 
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
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
Choose your life's mate carefully.
From this one decision will come
90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
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Life is too short, time is too precious,
and the stakes are too high
to dwell on what might have been.
- Hilary Clinton
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
Life is a gift, and I try to respond with grace and courtesy.
- Maya Angelou
Life is serious? Why?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
Life must be lived as play.
- Plato
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is lived in the waiting.
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Life is all in our Perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear is the root of the tree of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A life lived Boldly and Joyfully is a Heroic Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life doesn't step on your toes when you Dance Lightly.
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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
A life, deeply rooted, lives and grows in memory.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Life is in our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hitch a Ride on the River of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
Life is a nurturing mother,
when you just remember to say "thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Book of Life is a Book of Riddles,
with its Real Lessons Writ Small in the Margins.
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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
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 is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
- Frank Herbert
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.
- Anonymous
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
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life is all in the perspective we take on it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
It is easier to put on slippers
than to carpet the entire world
- Al Franken
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life is ten percent what happens to you
and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- Lou Holtz
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
Go forth, and play joyfully in the garden of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
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