100+ Inspirational Life Quotes

She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.

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Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.

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You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

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Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar

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You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.

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For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

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There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

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The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.

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No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

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If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

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If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.

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The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

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When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

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But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

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The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.

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Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are

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Nobody is exempt from the trials of life, but everyone can always find something positive in everything even in the worst of times.

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There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

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Each day is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to Him.

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I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.

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I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

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Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.

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Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.

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Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)

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Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.

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How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

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I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

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How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

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She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hallAnd clears it for a different celebration.

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You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.

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Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.

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It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

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So I would choose to be with you,That's if the choice were mine to make,But you can make decisions too,And you can have this heart to break

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Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

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As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.

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The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

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