Quotes and Sayings About Life
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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
-- Abraham Maslow -
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
-- Abraham Maslow -
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One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.
-- Abraham Maslow -
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
-- Abraham Maslow -
We need a way of life in which the animal, guided by reason, may romp but will not bite.
-- Abraham Myerson -
You live it forward, but understand it backward.
-- Abraham VergheseSource : Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.11, Random House India
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Life is a lie, and Love a cheat.
-- Adah Isaacs MenkenSource : Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia”, p.71
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Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbor, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.
-- Adam Lindsay GordonSource : 'Ye Wearie Wayfarer' 'Fytte 8'
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I would live the same life over if I had to live again, And the chances are I go where most men go.
-- Adam Lindsay GordonSource : Adam Lindsay Gordon (1912). “The Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon: Edited with Introduction, Notes & Appendixes, by Frank Maldon Robb”
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Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.
-- Adam Michnik -
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
-- Adam SmithSource : "The Theory of Moral Sentiments".
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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.
-- Adelaide Anne ProcterSource : Adelaide Anne Procter (1861). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.76
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Don't trust anyone. Be a cold fish. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.
-- Adeline Yen MahSource : Adeline Yen Mah (1998). “Falling leaves: the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter”
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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
-- Adrienne Rich -
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A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.
-- Adyashanti -
Now don't think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
-- Adyashanti -
The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don't know who you are; you lose your boundaries, you lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.
-- Adyashanti -
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The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
-- Adyashanti -
Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
-- Aeschylus -
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
-- Aesop -
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
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It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
-- Aesop