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Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
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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
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hitch a Ride on the River of Life.
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Life is all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The Book of Life is a Book of Riddles,
with its Real Lessons Writ Small in the Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Life is lived in the waiting.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious,
and they must be brought into connection with action.
They must be woven together.
- Anais Nin
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 like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
Choose your life's mate carefully.
From this one decision will come
90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
Life is in our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life ain't always beautiful,
but it's a beautiful ride.
- Gary Allen
Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling
Life is serious? Why?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is soft and smooth when lived gently.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
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
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- 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
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
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
Life is a gift, and I try to respond with grace and courtesy.
- Maya Angelou
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
What is called genius is the
abundance of life and health.
- Henry David Thoreau
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung
Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Life is a grand adventure - enjoy the ride.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear is the root of the tree of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi
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
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 like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
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
Life is a balance between rest and movement.
- Osho
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
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
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