Quotes About Life To Live By

 Quotes About Life:  A   

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

A Course In Miracles
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.

Ziad K. Abdelnour  1960
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
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.

The purpose of your life is Joy.

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.

Joseph Addison  1672 – 1719
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
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
Even a God cannot change the past.

Astrid Alauda
Dreams are free – so free your dreams.

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.

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

Muhammad Ali  1942 – 2016
Don’t count the days…  Make the days count.

Michael Althsuler
The bad news is… time flies.  The good news is… you’re the pilot.

Henri Frederic Amiel  1821 – 1881
The path through life is the highway.

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

Hans Christian Anderson  1805 – 1875
Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s finger.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale.

Maya Angelou  1928 – 2014
You may not control the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Alain Arias-Misson
The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual, distillate – it is life, intensified, brilliant life.

Aristotle  384BC – 322BC
Choice, not chance… determines your destiny.

Aristotle  384BC – 322BC
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
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
What we play is…   Life.

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

Isaac Asimov  1920 – 1992
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?

Marcus Aurelius  121 – 180
Each day provides its own gifts.

Every instant of time…  is a pinprick of eternity.

Marcus Aurelius  121 – 180
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.

Sri Aurobindo  1872 – 1950
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
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

 Quotes About Life:  B   

Richard Bach  1936
Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished… If you’re alive, it isn’t.

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

The Beatles 
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be.

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

Annie Besant  1847 – 1933
There is no life without consciousness.
There is no consciousness without life.

Bible
A faithful friend is the medicine of life.

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

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

Ambrose Bierce  1842 – 1914
Life…   A spiritual pickle, preserving the body from decay

Black Elk  1863 – 1950
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
Your heart is your paintbrush. The entire Universe is your canvas. You life is your art.

Ralph H. Blum  1932 – 2016
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  1960
Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

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

Ray Bradbury  1920 – 2012
Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

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

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
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 
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Jeff Brown 
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 
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Les Brown  1945 
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
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 
Light tomorrow with today.

Robert Browning  1812 – 1889
My sun sets to rise again.

Buddha  624BC – 543BC
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
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
You cannot travel on the path until you become the path itself.

Sandra Bullock  1964
I’m a true believer in karma.  You get what you give, whether it’s bad or good.

Frances Hodgson Burnett   1849 – 1924
Everything’s a story, you are a story, I am a story.

Robert Burns  1759 – 1796
Now’s the day and now’s the hour.

Leo Buscaglia  1924 – 1998
Love is life… And if you miss love, you miss life.

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

Eric Butterworth  1916 – 2003
Don’t go through life…   Grow through life.

Samuel Butler  1835 – 1902
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.

Lorna Byrne  1953
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
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.

Rhonda Byrne  1951
Whatever you give out in life is…  what you receive back in life.

Rhonda Byrne  1951
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.

Rhonda Byrne  1951
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 
Life’s enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

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