Life Quotes

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.  So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.   Mark Twain

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.   Oscar Wilde

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change   Charles Darwin

Some people walk in the rain. Others just get wet.   Roger Miller

It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes   Marquerite Blessington

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.  George Bernard Shaw

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.  Helen Keller

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.   Robert Anthony

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive.  And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Harold Whitman

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.   Cynthia Nelms

 If you're going through hell, keep going.  Winston Churchill

We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.  William Arthur Ward

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever   Gandhi

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.  George Washington Carver

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Spurgeon

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Circumstances and situations do color life but you have been given the mind to choose what the color shall be.   John Homer Miller

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not our circumstances.  Martha Washington

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.   Charles Bukowski

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?   Charles M Schulz

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