Inspirational Quotes About Life

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A Course In Miracles
Spiritual teachings book
Let me remember I am one with God. Our shining footsteps point the way to truth, for God is our Companion as we walk the world a little while.

The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions.

Frank Abagnale 1948
American security consultant, author & inspiration for movie Catch Me If You Can
A real man loves his wife and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.

Ziad K. Abdelnour 1960
Lebanon Financier & author
We have three types of friends in life…
friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime.

Aboriginal
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love.. And then we return home.

Abraham-Hicks 1948
Channeller, speaker & author
Everything is unfolding perfectly. And as you relax and find ease in your attitude of trust, knowing that Well-Being is your birth-right, amazing things will happen. Things the likes of which you have not seen before.

If you have no resistance magic is happening everywhere around you.

The more joyful you are the longer you live.

The purpose of your life is joy.

What you are living is the evidence of what you are thinking and feeling, every single time.

You didn’t come here for the manifestation, you came for the manifesting. You didn’t come for the creation, you came for the creating. You came because you are a Creator and a Creator’s gotta create.

Your life is right now. It’s not later. It’s not in that time of retirement. It’s not when the lover gets here. It’s not when you’ve moved into the new house. It’s not when you get the better job. Your life is right now.

It will always be right now. You might as well decide to start enjoying your life right now, because it’s not ever going to get better than right now… until it gets better right now!

Your time is a perceptual thing, and even though the clock is ticking the same for everyone, your alignment affect your perception, as well as the results that you allow.

George Matthew Adams 1878-1962
American newspaper columnist & writer
Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.

Each day of your life, as soon as you open your eyes in the morning, you can square away for a happy and successful day. It's the mood and the purpose at the inception of each day that are the important facts in charting your course for the day. We can always square away for a fresh start, no matter what the past has been. It's today that is the paramount problem always. Yesterday is but history.

He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day...needs to reorganize his life.

I said to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.

What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.

You are your greatest investment. The more you store in that mind of yours, the more you enrich your experience, the more people you meet, the more books you read, and the more places you visit, the greater is that investment in all that you are. Everything that you add to your peace of mind, and to your outlook upon life, is added capital that no one but yourself can dissipate.

Charles Addams 1912-1988
American cartoonist
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

Joseph Addison 1672-1719
English essayist, poet & politician
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure, but scattered along life’s pathway the good they do is inconceivable.

Adele 1988
English singer-songwriter
Everything I do, in every channel of my life, is part of a legacy that I’m making for my child. For my children, if I have more. I’m not motivated by much, certainly not money - but I’m motivated by that.

It’s very easy to give in to being famous, because it’s charming, it’s powerful, it draws you in. Really, it’s harder work resisting it. But after a while I just refused to accept a life that was not real.

Agathon 448BC-400BC
Greek poet
Even a God cannot change the past.

Steven Aitchison
British author
A true joy in life should be knowing that you have touched the heart of another human being.

Break from the chains that tie you to the past.

Everybody you have ever met in your life was brought to you for a reason.

‘How can I find a way to overcome this?’
Is a much better question than ‘Why is my life so bad?’
It’s the questions we ask ourselves that will determine how we live our life.

The doors to your dreams are not always visible, and the only way to see them is to create them.

The true gift of our mistakes is the knowledge we gain from them.

Astrid Alauda
Dreams digest the meals that are our days.

Mitch Albom 1958
There are no random acts. We are all connected. You can no more separate one life from another, than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

Frederick Matthias Alexander 1869-1955
Australian creator of Alexander Technique
People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.

James Alexander
It is a beautiful world… consciously put some little bits of it into your memory each day.

Muhammad Ali 1942-2016
American boxer & activist
Don’t count the days… Make the days count.

Michael Altshuler
American speaker & author
The bad news is.. Time flies.
The good news is.. You’re the pilot.

Henri Frederic Amiel 1821-1881
Swiss moral philosopher & poet
The path through life is the highway.

Gillian Anderson 1968
American actress
I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We’re here to learn from each other.

Maya Angelou 1928-2014
American memoirist & poet
You may not control the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Alain Arias-Misson 1936
American-Belgian poet, writer & artist
The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual, distillate - it is life, intensified, brilliant life.

Aristotle 384BC-322BC
Ancient Greek philosopher & polymath
Choice, not chance.. Determines your destiny.

Aristotle 384BC-322BC
Ancient Greek philosopher & polymath
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle 384BC-322BC
Ancient Greek philosopher & polymath
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Louis Armstrong 1901-1971
American singer & trumpeter
What we play is.. Life.

Eberhard Arnold 1883-1935
German theologian
Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it.

Isaac Asimov 1920-1992
Russian-American author, writer & professor
Education is not something you can finish.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood.. I’d type faster.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

Margaret Atwood 1939
Canadian novelist & poet
In the end, we’ll all become stories.

St Augustine 354-430
Algerian bishop & theologian
As the Soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the Soul.

God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.

If we live good lives, the times are also good.
As we are, such are the times.

The words printed here are concepts.
You must go through the experiences.

To seek the highest good is to live well.

You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.

Marcus Aurelius 121-180
Roman emperor & Stoic philosopher
Each day provides its own gifts.

Every instant of time.. Is a pinprick of eternity.

Marcus Aurelius 121-180
Roman emperor & Stoic philosopher
Everything’s destiny is to change, to be transformed, to perish. So that new things can be born.

The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

What stands in the way, becomes the way.

Very little is needed for a happy life.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive..
To breathe - to think - to enjoy - to love.

You could die right now. Let this fact guide the rest of your life.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Sri Aurobindo 1872-1950
Indian philosopher, yogi & poet
The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless in number, are transient and brittle. The life everlasting is independent of any form but manifests itself in all forms.

Life then does not die.. But the forms are dissolved.

Decimius Magnus Ausonius 310-395
French-Roman poet & teacher
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

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Richard Bach 1936
American author & writer
Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished...
If you're alive, it isn't.

James Baldwin 1924-1987
American writer & civil rights activist
The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love – whether we call it friendship or family or romance – is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s Light.

P. T. Barnum 1810-1891
American showman, businessman & politician
The foundation of success in life is good health.

The safest plan, and the one most sure of success for the young man starting in life, is to select the vocation which is most congenial to his tastes.

Damian Barr 1976
Scottish author, writer & broadcaster
We are not all in the same boat, we are in the same storm. Some have yachts, some have canoes and some are drowning. Just be kind and help when you can.

James Matthew Barrie 1860-1937
Scottish novelist & playwright
The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story and writes another.

Bashar-Daryll Anka 1951
Canadian channeller & film producer
The energy you give off - based on your beliefs, your emotions, your behaviour - he vibrational frequency you give off is what determines the kind of reality experience you have, because physical reality doesn’t exist except as a reflection of what you most strongly believe is true for you. That is all that physical reality is. It is literally like a mirror.

Beatles (The)
English band 60’s - 70’s
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be.

Ezra Taft Benson 1899-1994
American farmer, government official & LDS religious leader
A father’s calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.

Acknowledging the Lord’s hand in our lives cultivates gratitude.

Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily. Live enthusiastically, knowing that God does not dwell in gloom and melancholy, but in light and love.

Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life – and that preparing for life is far more than knowing how to make a living or how to land on the moon.

Preparing for life means building personal integrity, developing a sound sense of values, increasing the capacity and willingness to serve.

Education must have its roots in moral principles. If we lose sight of that fact in our attempt to match our educational system against that of the materialists, we shall have lost far more than we could possibly gain.

Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He can deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their souls and pour out peace.

Our parents deserve our honour and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.

Thank God for the joys of family life. I have often said there can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from a good home. The sweetest influences and associations of life are there.

Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.

Gabrielle Bernstein
American author & motivational speaker
Each day when you wake up, say: “What miracles would you have me perform today?” Then listen.

Annie Besant 1847-1933
British socialist & activist
There is no life without consciousness. There is no consciousness without life.

Bible
Christian scriptures book
A faithful friend is the medicine of life.

For all men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.

Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.

Train up a child in the way he should go..
And when he is old, he will not depart from it.

You make known to me the path of life, you will fill me with joy in your presence.

Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914
American journalist, writer & poet
Life.. A spiritual pickle, preserving the body from decay.

Black Elk 1863-1950
Native American of Oglala Lakota tribe
Behold this day. It is yours to make.

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

Kute Blackson
Inspirational speaker & author
Your heart is your paintbrush.
The entire Universe is your canvas.
Your life is your art.

Ralph H. Blum 1932-2016
American author & cultural anthropologist
In each life there comes at least one moment, which, if recognized and seized, transforms the course of that life forever. Rely, therefore, on radical trust, even though the moment may call for you to leap empty-handed into the void.

Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

Bono (Paul Hewson) 1960
Irish singer-songwriter & activist
Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

Kevin Bracy
Author & speaker
If you want your life to be different, you have to be willing to do something different first.

Ray Bradbury 1920-2012
American author & screenwriter
Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Gregg Braden 1954
American author, scientist & educator
Each moment is a prayer. Life is a prayer.

Robert Brault
American author & philosopher
Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.

Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing.

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.

It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire.. You never knew you had.

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life.. And it was you. It is not too late to find that person again.

Looking back you realize that everything would have explained itself, if you had only stopped interrupting.

Optimist… someone who isn’t sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy, but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life’s purpose.. The eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

Robert Brault
American author & philosopher
The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter.

To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.

You start making progress in life when you realize that you don’t always have to resume where you left of.

Sarah Ban Breathnach 1947
American author, speaker & philanthropist
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Phillips Brooks 1835-1893
American clergyman & author
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this Earth would be God’s paradise.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

Dan Brown 1964
American author
For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

Time is a river, and books are boats.

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.

Jeff Brown 1950
Canadian author & spiritual teacher
You are the sculptor of your own reality. Don’t hand your tools to anyone else.

Leon Brown
Nothing goes to waste on the journey of life. Both good and bad experiences shape your mind and heart for what is to come.

Les Brown 1945
American politician & motivational speaker
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Life has no limitations… except the ones you make.

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow, are the BUTS you use today.

You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.

Pam Brown 1948
Australian poet
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861
English poet
Light tomorrow with today.

Robert Browning 1812-1889
English poet & playwright
My sun sets to rise again.

Martin Buber 1878-1965
Austrian-Israeli philosopher
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

Every man’s foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man’s life. As we life, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.

Buddha 624BC-543BC
Spiritual leader & founder of Buddhism
Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

Buddha 624BC-543BC
Spiritual leader & founder of Buddhism
Meditate - Live purely - Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds… Shine.

There is only one time when it is essential to Awaken, that time is.. NOW.

Buddha 624BC-543BC
Spiritual leader & founder of Buddhism
You cannot travel on the path until you become the path itself.

Frances Hodgson Burnett 1849-1924
British-American novelist & playwright
Everything’s a story, you are a story, I am a story.

Robert Burns 1759-1796
Scottish poet & lyricist
Now’s the day and now’s the hour.

Leo Buscaglia 1924-1998
American author & motivational speaker
Love is life.. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Darcy Bussell 1969
English ballerina
Being a mother has made my life complete.

Samuel Butler 1835-1902
English novelist & critic
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims of life is to enjoy it.

Eric Butterworth 1916-2003
Canadian author & Unity leader
Don’t go through life.. Grow through life.

Lorna Byrne 1953
Irish author
Children are our future, and the only way for the world to evolve, as I have been shown it should be, is for each generation to be more loving and compassionate than the one before.

This is only possible if we support the children around us, and protect and encourage them so that they don’t need to lock their love away.

If we could acknowledge to ourselves and to our good friends that we love them, our lives would be more fulfilled and happy.

Rhonda Byrne 1951
Australian television writer/producer & author
Life doesn’t happen to you, you receive everything in your life based on what you’ve given.

Life is so much easier than you think it is, and as you come to understand the way life works, and the power you have inside you, you will experience the magic of life in its fullness.

The life of your dreams, everything you would love to be, do or have, has always been closer to you than you knew.. Because the power to everything you want is inside you.

The positive force of love can create anything good, increase the good things and change anything negative in your life.

Whatever you give out in life is what you receive back in life.

Without exception, every person who has a great life used love to achieve it. The power to have all the positive and good things in life is love.

You are creating your life with your thoughts and your feelings. Whatever you think and feel creates everything that happens to you and everything you experience in life.

You can change your life, because you have an unlimited ability to think and talk about what you love, and so you have an unlimited ability to bring everything good in life to you.

Lord Byron 1788-1824
English poet & peer
Life’s enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

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Eileen Caddy 1917-2006
British spiritual teacher & author
Always look on the bright side of life, for the more joy and love you radiate, the more joy and love will you draw to you.

Love all souls around you, for you will find everyone responds to love in the end. Children and animals respond immediately because they have no barriers to pull down. They feel that love flow instinctively, for they are not suspicious of wrong motives and intentions, but simply accept and respond to love and return it joyously.

Be at peace and see a clear pattern and plan running through your lives. Nothing is by chance.

Eileen Caddy 1917-2006
British spiritual teacher & author
Concentrate on the wonders and joys of this life, and accept the very best which is your true heritage. It is not being an ostrich, afraid of life and not facing it. It is seeing the reality of this glorious life which is yours, and in doing so, helping to bring it about. The more clearly you can see it, the more quickly it will come about.

Eileen Caddy 1917-2006
British spiritual teacher & author
Do what you enjoy doing and let the others follow what appeals to them. Live and let live.

Do you realise that what you do, how you live and how you think can help or hinder the world? Cease being drawn into the whirlpool of chaos and confusion, or destruction and devastation, and start right now concentrating on the wonder and beauty of the world around you. Give thanks for everything.

Everything that takes place in your life happens because of your consciousness. Raise your consciousness and you raise your whole being, your whole outlook on life, and you start to live the full and glorious life which is your true heritage.

You can be told about it, and you can see others living it; but until it enters your consciousness and you can accept that it is for you, nothing happens.

The most seemingly simple and child-like soul can accept the kingdom of heaven far more easily than the most deeply intellectual soul who thinks it knows all the answers with its mind, but its consciousness has not been raised to higher levels.

Gratitude keeps the door wide open for more and more wonders to enter your life, so never, never fail to give thanks.

It is up to you to make today the most wonderful day you have ever lived, by your right attitude, by your positive thought.

Let your life be a constant prayer of love and thanksgiving. Life is very, very good, but always remember that life is what you make it.

Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.

Eileen Caddy 1917-2006
British spiritual teacher & author
Nothing is by chance. There is a perfect pattern and plan running through the whole of life, and you are part of that wholeness and therefore part of that perfect pattern and plan.

Refuse to see the worst in people, in things or in conditions, and seek always for the very best. It is not being like an ostrich hiding your head in the sand and refusing to fact the realities of the world. It is simply looking for and concentrating on the very best in everything and everyone.

You are a tiny world within yourself. When there is peace, harmony, love and understanding right there deep within your little world, it will be reflected in the outer world all around you.

Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring, in perfect peace and joy.

Eileen Caddy 1917-2006
British spiritual teacher & author
Start right now becoming more and more aware of the things that matter in life, the things that gladden the heart, refresh the Spirit and lift the consciousness. The more beauty you absorb, the more love you have to give.

That which is deep within you will be reflected in your life without.

The primary lesson of life is to learn to love.

The spring of the New Age is here, bursting forth in perfect harmony, beauty and abundance; and nothing can stop it from coming about.

There is not one way which is right and all the rest wrong. Mountain climbers have to make the choice between climbing straight up to the summit by the direct route, or finding an easier route to follow. It is up to them. You make up your mind which is the right spiritual path for you and then follow it whole-heartedly.

There are those souls who are seekers and have not yet found their specific path in this life. They will try one spiritual path after another and follow it a certain distance, then realise it is not for them and start off on another path. They will keep on doing it until they have found the right one. They will find the right one if they seek diligently and never give up their search.

If you have found your rightful path, move ever forward and waste no time looking back or being critical of those souls who are still searching.

What is age to you? Do you fear growing old? Or are you one who takes it all in your stride and who knows and understands that the fountain of youth is your own consciousness.

When you keep your mind young, fresh and alert, there is no such thing as growing old. When you have many interests in life and when you enjoy life to the full, how can you ever grow old?

Human beings limit themselves when they think of three score years and ten as being the fullness of life. It can be just the beginning for many souls when they awake to the wonder of life, and in awakening begin to enjoy it.

What you think, what you do, and how you behave can have a tremendous effect on the state of the world. Therefore start right now looking on the bright side of life, looking for the very best in every situation that arises.

When you recognise Me in everything and call upon Me and seek My help, everything starts to fall into place in your life. When you obey My still, small voice within, you begin to unfold like a beautiful flower and you see what a truly practical, wonderful life it is.

You are absolutely free to choose your own path. Therefore seek and follow it.

You are in this world to bring good into it. You are here to radiate love, light and wisdom to all those souls in need.

You cannot create the new by remaining immersed in the old.

A newborn babe cannot remain attached to its mother. The umbilical cord has to be cut so that it becomes a separate being. So with this spiritual life.

Once you have set your foot on the spiritual path and have decided to live in the ways of the Spirit, you have to make a clean break with your old way of life. You cannot have a foot in both worlds. The choice is yours. Let there be no going back on that choice. Keep moving forward. It is when the going is rough that you may crave the so-called ’good old days’ and want to go back.

There is no going back in this life. A babe cannot return not its mother’s womb when life becomes too hard for it. A chick cannot return to its shell, or a butterfly to its chrysalis. Life cannot go backwards. It has to go forward, always forward.

You never stop learning in this life.

Helen Caldicott 1938
Australian physician, author & anti-nuclear advocate
We are the curators of life on Earth. We hold it in the palm of our hand.

Julia Cameron 1948
American teacher, author & artist
Art is the imagination at play in the field of time.

No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby, or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical, or too selfish, or too silly, to work on your creativity.

Joseph Campbell 1904-1987
American writer
Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now.

Follow your bliss.. And the Universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Joseph Campbell 1904-1987
American writer
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of life.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the Universe, to match your nature with nature.

Albert Camus 1913-1960
French philosopher, author & political activist
Life is the sum of all your choices.

Jack Canfield 1944
American author & motivational speaker
Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilled life.

You only have control over three things in your life: the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take.

Eddie Cantor 1892-1964
American comedian, actor & singer-songwriter
Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast.. You also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Kristine Carlson 1963
American author
Life can change in a moment, so we must appreciate every single day we are given.

Kristine Carlson 1963
American author
Love is truly eternal and lasts forever. It is the core of our connection and expression of life.

Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881
Scottish historian & essayist
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881
Scottish historian & essayist
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realised by man ever dies, or can die.

Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney 1823-1908
American educator, poet & author

Little drops of water
Little grains of sand
Make the mighty ocean
And the pleasant land.

Thus the little minutes
Humble though they be
Make the mighty ages
Of eternity

Jim Carrey 1962
Canadian-American actor & comedian
Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

What fascinates me is that hardly anyone is wondering what we’re actually doing on this planet. Most accepted the work-eat-entertainment-sleep cycle as life and have no desire for a deeper understanding of our purpose in this universe.

Lewis Carroll 1832-1898
English author, poet & Anglican priest
I knew who I was this morning.. But I’ve changed a few times since then.

Rachel Carson 1907-1964
American marine biologist & writer
Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

Edgar Cayce 1877-1945
American clairvoyant
Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.

Edgar Cayce 1877-1945
American clairvoyant
The spirit is the life. The mind the builder. And the body the result.

Edwin H. Chapin 1814-1880
American preacher, editor & poet
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1881-1955
French Jesuit Catholic priest & scientist
It’s our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits to our abilities do not exist. We are collaborators in creation.. The future of the Earth is in our hands.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton 1874-1936
English author & Christian apologist
When it comes to life the critical thing is..
Whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Julia Child 1912-2004
American chef, author & TV personality
Dining with one’s friends and beloved family is certainly one of life’s primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.

Doc Childre 1945
American author & founder of Heartmath Institute
An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interact with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time.

Deepak Chopra 1946
Indian-American author
Happiness can be woven into every aspect of life, once you make new choices.

Life is a field of unlimited possibilities.

Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.
Happiness is the goal of every other goal.

Winston Churchill 1874-1965
British Prime Minister
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

Marcus Tullius Cicero 106BC-43BC
Italian poet, philosopher & orator
Don’t quit. Where there’s life.. There’s hope.

Everything is alive. Everything is interconnected.

Tom Clancy 1947-2013
American author
The good old days are now.

Paulo Coelho 1947
Brazilian author
Important encounters are planned by the Souls long before the bodies see each other.

Straight roads do not make skilful drivers.

When each day is the same as the next. It’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Confucius 551BC-479BC
Chinese philosopher & politician
Choose a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.

Calvin Coolidge 1872-1933
American 30th President of USA
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not… nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not… unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not… the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race.

Kevin Costner 1955
American actor, producer & director
Life’s better when it’s fun.. Boy, that’s deep, isn’t it?

Stephen Covey 1932-2012
American author, educator & speaker
Live out of your imagination, not your history.

William Cowper 1731-1800
English poet & hymnwriter
Variety’s the spice of life, that gives it all it’s flavours.

Chief Crowfoot 1830-1890
Native American Chief of Blackfoot tribe
A little while and I will be gone from among you, when I cannot tell.
From nowhere we came, into nowhere we go.
What is life?
It is the flash of firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass
And loses itself in the sunset.

Marie Curie 1867-1934
Polish-French physicist & chemist
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

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Roald Dahl 1916-1990
British author
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

Roald Dahl 1916-1990
British author
If you are good.. Life is good.

There is little point teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.

Anthony J. D’Angelo
If life doesn’t offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.

Brian D’Arcy 1945
Irish Passionist priest, broadcaster & author
If you get the choice of sitting it out and looking at life, or, dancing your way through it.. I hope you dance.

The answer to life’s questions lies inside you.
All you need to do is to look, to listen and to trust your inner voice.

Ram Dass 1931
American spiritual teacher
Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.

We are all just walking each other home.

Robertson Davies 1913-1995
Canadian author, playwright & journalist
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguessed at by the person who threw the stone.

James Dean 1931-1955
American actor
Dream as if you’ll live forever.   Live as if you’ll die today.

Alec Depledge
Life may cut you down, yet your roots are strong beneath.. You will rise once more.

Johnny Depp 1963
American actor & musician
I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you’re on it.

There are four questions of value in life: What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for? And, what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same.. Love.

Panache Desai
English spiritual teacher & author
Life is just a vehicle through which you get to unleash your presence.

The quality of your life is determined by the clarity of your connection to yourself.

Your Soul Signature is your spiritual DNA - who you are at your core, the most authentic part of you. When we begin to tap into our inherent power, step out of the shadows of fear and self-doubt, and begin living and speaking our truth, we’re healthier, happier and in harmony with ourselves.

Mark Desaux
If your life inspires just one child.. Your life has been a success.

Sheri L. Dew 1953
American author, publisher & LDS religious leader
Happily, though we must each walk through life on our own, we don’t have to do it alone.

We are here to influence the world rather than to be influenced by the world.

John Dewey 1859-1952
American philosopher, psychologist & educational reformer
Education is not preparation for life..  Education is life itself.

We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.

Anita Diamant 1951
American author
The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life, the stronger the daughter.

Princess Diana 1961-1997
British royal family
Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

Life is just a journey.

Charles Dickens 1812-1870
English author, journalist & writer
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Emily Dickinson 1830-1886
American poet
Forever is composed of nows.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the aching, or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

Eileen Dielesen
Leave impressions of lasting love, before time washes away your footprints.

Leave loveprints in the heart of everyone you walk with.

Walt Disney 1901–1966
American animator & film producer
Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881
British Prime Minister
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

We are all born for love, it is the principle of existence and its only end.

Henry Drummond 1851-1897
Scottish evangelist, writer & lecturer
You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you have truly lived, are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Wayne Dyer 1940-2015
American author & motivational speaker
Don’t die with your music still in you.

Wayne Dyer 1940-2015
American author & motivational speaker
Every single person who’s drifted in and out of your life is a part of your divinely chosen experience. So, give thanks for all of these people, and take serious note of what they brought you.

Expressing gratitude for the miracles in your world is one of the best ways to make each moment of your life a special one.

I trust that the Universe will provide experiences that match my desires and they will all work out for my Highest Good.

Wayne Dyer 1940-2015
American author & motivational speaker
Involve yourself in high-energy levels of trust, optimism, appreciation, reverence, joy, and love when you engage in every activity in your life.

Know that success and inner peace are your birthright, that you are a child of God and as such that you’re entitled to a life filled with joy, love and happiness.

Look upon every experience you’ve ever had, and everyone who’s ever played any role in your life, as having been sent to you for your benefit.

Loving people live in a loving world.
Hostile people live in a hostile world.
But it’s the same world.

Wayne Dyer 1940-2015
American author & motivational speaker
On your daily journeys, listen to those inner signals that help you make the right choices, no matter what anyone thinks.

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.

Wayne Dyer 1940-2015
American author & motivational speaker
Truly believe in the potential for humans to live in peace and be receptive to all, and you’ll be someone who’s at peace and receptive to life’s possibilities.

Truth is not something that you look for, it’s something that you live.

We are all on the same path, we’re just on different places along the path.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor.. It’s to enjoy every step of the way.

Without exception, begin every day of your life with gratitude. As you look in the mirror, say, “Thank you, God, for life, for my body, for my family and loved ones, for this day, and for the opportunity to be of service. Thank you, thank you, thank you!”

Henry van Dyke 1852-1933
American author & Presbyterian clergyman
Who seeks for Heaven alone to save his Soul
May keep the path, but will not reach the goal
While he who walks in love may wander far
But God will bring him where the blessed are

Andrea Dykstra
Author, intuitive & life coach
In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.

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