Life - Quotes

Life is all about balance. You don’t always need to be getting stuff done. Sometimes it’s perfectly okay, and absolutely necessary, to shut down, kick back, and do nothing. - Lori Deschene

The one who plant trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life. - Rabindranath Tagore

Life is real, life should be earnest. To be enjoyed, we must have an aim, an object in life; and to be happy, to enjoy life, the object must be one worthy the highest, purest, best part of our nature. - James Platt

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth. - Henry Ward Beecher

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. - Ashley Smith

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow. - Georg C. Lichtenberg

Every moment of our lives is always different. At times it can be easy, and at times it is very hard, but from everything we go through it, we always learn a valuable lesson. - Unknown

You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more. - Philip Roth

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you. - Henry J. Kaiser

Sometimes our lives have to be completely shaken up, changed, and rearrange to relocate us to the place we are meant to be. - Unknown

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What building has the most stories?
The library

Women: We are busy wearing so many hats in life we deserve to have all the shoes we want.

Why don't you ever hear of a lawyer getting attacked by a shark at the beach?
Professional courtesy.

Why didn’t the dendrochronologist get married?
He only ever dated trees.

How many lawyer jokes are there?
One, the rest are true stories.

The difference between in-laws and outlaws?
Outlaws are wanted.

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People say I act like I don’t give a shit. I’m not acting. - Unknown

I walk around like everything is fine, but deep down, inside my shoe, my sock is sliding down. - Unknown

Be the reason someone smiles today. Or the reason they drink. Whatever works. - Unknown

Life is too short to hold a grudge. Slash some tyres and call it even. - Unknown

Someone, somewhere is made for you. Go ruin their life. - Unknown

Yesterday I wore something from 5 years ago, and it fitted. So proud of myself. It was a scarf. But still. Let’s be positive here. - Unknown

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Life - Quotes

It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any. - Hugh Laurie

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that’s it. You’re going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that’s deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way. - Andrew Shue

Life is basically like a soap bubble. It rides on the wind, flying here and there, … And before you realize it, pop! It’s gone. When it’s about to disappear, you think that you could’ve flown a bit higher. But by the time, it’s already too late. - Sakata Gintoki

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow. - Woodie Guthrie

An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the world or by a spirit or voice speaking from deep within a thing, a place, or a person. - Thomas Moore

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Humorous Quotes

How can you tell when someone eats right, drinks protein shakes, and goes to the gym every day? Don’t worry… they’ll tell you. Oh they’ll fucking tell you. - Unknown

I am in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met. - Unknown

It’s never too late to be what you want to be. Unless you want to be younger… then you’re screwed. - Unknown

Life seems to drag until you’re 17, then you blink and you’re 35 with a beer belly and only 4 friends left. - Unknown

I stopped fighting my inner demons. We are on the same side now. - Unknown

I love waving at random people, because you know for the rest of the day they’re trying to figure out who the hell you were. - Unknown

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Success - Quotes

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flare for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. - Margaret Thatcher

Happiness - Quotes

True happiness is not found in materialistic things. It comes from the love and laughter found with each other. - Unknown

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better. - George Orwell

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the of of life is happiness. - George Orwell

Life - Quotes

Wouldn’t it be nice if life took a cue from horse racing and a gun went off when it was time for us to get moving? Life rarely sends us a signal as clear as a starter’s pistol. It's up to us to recognize when it's time to just start. - Stuart R. Levine

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it. - Audrey Hepburn

I know not what I appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton

It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Life is like a movie, if you’ve sat through more than half of it and its sucked every second so far, it probably isn’t gonna get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early. - Doug Stanhope

The answer is simple: if you cannot find meaning inherent in life right now, as you live it in this visible world, the addition of an infinite amount more of the same isn't about to somehow make it any more meaningful! Add a whole string of zeroes to a zero and watch what happens. - Robert M. Price

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