Sunday, 21 October 2018

Life - Quotes

The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won but to have fought well. - Baron Pierre de Coubertin

The important thing in life is to have great aim and to possess the aptitude and the perseverance to attain it. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. - Oprah Winfrey

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. - Cecil B. De Mille

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. - Thomas S. Monson

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. - Don Williams

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

There is nothing more grey, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory. - Jaron Lanier

This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize that it is play. - Alan Watts

Those who died yesterday had plans for this morning. And those who died this morning had plans for tonight. Don’t take life for granted. - Unknown

To grant all a man’s wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at. - P.B. Kerr

More on Life Here, and the book The Mystery of Life - a collection of quotes on and pertaining to life.

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