35 Wise Quotes to Live By

Just as my collection of
Inspirational
Quotes has been compiled to encourage and motivate, so too is
this collection of
life
quotes.
We all need a boost occasionally to keep us focused on what is
really
important.
When we get caught up in less consequential and sometimes
insignificant details, we take away precious time from those
moments
and events that really matter make life meaningful and precious.
Here then are 35 wise
quotes to live by:
- Life is the sum of all your choices. Albert
Camus
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear
never beginning to live. Marcus
Aurelius
- To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To
the problems of your life, you are the only solution. Jo
Coudert
- Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to
endure a difficult one. Bruce Lee
- Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness
has genius, power and magic in it! Johann
Wolfgang
Von Goethe
- We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is
composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things,
also of
different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud.
If a
musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say? Michel
de
Montaigne
- All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our
thoughts, we make our world. Suddhartha
Guatama
Buddha
- Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing
a poor hand well.
Robert Louis Stevenson
- Life is short and we have never too much time for
gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark
journey with
us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind. Henri-Frédéric
Amiel
- Life without love, is no life at all. Leonardo da
Vinci
- Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover
by living. Søren
Kierkegaard
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your
thoughts. Marcus Aurelius
- Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in
eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our
hand -
and melting like a snowflake. Sir Francis Bacon
- Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep. Carl Sandburg
- There is no value in life except what you choose to place
upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to
it
yourself. Henry David Thoreau
- Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you
need to live. Paulo Coelho
- Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. D. H.
Lawrence
- If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...Henry
David Thoreau
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were
to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi
- To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. Benjamin
Franklin
- Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. Margaret
Mitchell
- Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there
is nothing small about it. Florence Nightingale
- 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 is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar
Wilde
- Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. Ralph
Waldo Emerson
- The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist,
even in pain. Lord Byron
- A successful life is one that is lived through
understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the
dreams
of others. Chin-Ning Chu
- Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. Hans
Christian Andersen
- Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in
life really are free. Bob Marley
- The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy
of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any
evil,
because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order
to be in
control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive
purpose.
The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of
random
feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil,
because he
is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in
control of
your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose. Ayn
Rand
- May you live every day of your life. Jonathan
Swift
- The best things in life are unseen, that's why we close our
eyes when we kiss, cry, and dream. Helen
Keller
- Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss
slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret
ANYTHING that
makes you smile. Mark Twain
- Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating
yourself. George Bernard Shaw
- The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are
loved.
Victor Hugo
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