
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.Swami Vivekananda
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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.Swami Vivekananda

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.Rabindranath Tagore

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.Kahlil Gibran

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.Kahlil Gibran

We have on this earth that which makes life worth living.Mahmoud Darwish

Life should be great rather than long.B.R. Ambedkar

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.Rabindranath Tagore

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.Rabindranath Tagore

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.Rabindranath Tagore

At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.Jawaharlal Nehru

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.Jawaharlal Nehru

Be detached from desire your whole life long.Miyamoto Musashi

Those who seek death shall live. Those who seek life shall die.Yi Sun-sin

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal.José Rizal

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.Peter Singer

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.Katherine Mansfield

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.John Lennon

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.Victor Hugo

Without music, life would be a mistake.Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is a dream.Pedro Calderón de la Barca

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.Marcus Aurelius

Dwell on the beauty of life.Marcus Aurelius

While we wait for life, life passes.Seneca

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.Seneca

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?Vincent van Gogh

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.Booker T. Washington

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.Helen Keller

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.Emily Dickinson

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.Robert Frost

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'Muhammad Ali

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.Muhammad Ali

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.Henry David Thoreau

There is no passion to be found playing small — in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.Nelson Mandela

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.Rumi

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.Marcus Garvey

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love.Sophocles

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.Marcus Aurelius

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.Isabel Allende

Don't give up, that's what life is: to continue the journey, to follow your dreams, to unknot time, to move the rubble and uncover the sky.Mario Benedetti

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.Sitting Bull

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.Maya Angelou

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.Michel de Montaigne

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.Naguib Mahfouz

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.Langston Hughes

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning.Louise Erdrich

The true warrior dares to face life's bleakness squarely, and to look straight at its flowing blood.Lu Xun

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.Lin Yutang

Where there is love there is life.Mahatma Gandhi

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.Theodore Roosevelt

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.Gustave Flaubert

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.George Sand

All life is yoga.Sri Aurobindo

To be parent and child means only this: in this life, you watch their back recede further and further away.Lung Ying-tai

What is life like, wherever we travel? A wild goose, leaving footprints on the snow.Su Shi

Life is a gorgeous robe, crawling with lice.Eileen Chang

A Zen master's life is one continuous mistake.Dogen

A man who is tired of London is tired of life.Samuel Johnson

I prefer a short life with width to a narrow one with length.Ibn Sina

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.Søren Kierkegaard

Kill me, O my faithful friends, for in my death is my life.Mansur al-Hallaj

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.George Bernard Shaw

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.Orhan Pamuk

We have on this land that which makes life worth living.Mahmoud Darwish

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.Anaïs Nin

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.Charles Darwin

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.Marie Curie
Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.Yogi Berra
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.Karen Clark
Everything in life is luck.Donald Trump
Life is movement-we breathe, we eat, we walk, we move!John Pierrakos
Character develops itself in the stream of life.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.George Bernard Shaw
To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.Richard Bach
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.Victor Hugo
Life is just a chance to grow a soul.A. Powell Davies
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.Immanuel Kant
To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly.Voltaire
Life is a progress, and not a station.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.Anne Wilson Schaef
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.Gautama Buddha
Give thanks for the rain of life that propels us to reach new horizons.Byron Pulsifer
The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.Dave Weinbaum
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.Winston Churchill
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.Albert Einstein
If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.Lao Tzu
Love and compassion open our own inner life, reducing stress, distrust and loneliness.Dalai Lama
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.Eckhart Tolle
Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.Charlotte Bronte
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.Morris West
Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.Oprah Winfrey
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.George Bernard Shaw
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.Henry Van Dyke
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming moreAnthony Robbins
There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way.Christopher Morley
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.Arthur Rubinstein
Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.Tom Lehrer
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.James Freeman Clarke
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.Ben Stein
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.Honore de Balzac
Sadness may be part of life but there is no need to let it dominate your entire life.Byron Pulsifer
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.Robert Louis Stevenson
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.Albert Einstein
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.E. M. Forster
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.Benjamin Disraeli
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.Denis Waitley
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as ones own in the midst of abundance.Gautama Buddha
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.Thomas Edison
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything hes got.Walter Cronkite
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.Margaret Cousins
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.Alfred Tennyson
The aim of life is self-development. To realize ones nature perfectly — that is what each of us is here for.Oscar Wilde
Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life — for weak people who cannot keep their balance without them.Laura Teresa Marquez
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.John F. Kennedy
Responsibility is not inherited, it is a choice that everyone needs to make at some point in their life.Byron Pulsifer
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyse you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.Bernice Reagon
You can't create in a vacuum. Life gives you the material and dreams can propel new beginnings.Byron Pulsifer
The person who lives life fully, glowing with life's energy, is the person who lives a successful life.Daisaku Ikeda
All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!Bob Newhart
Your outlook on life is a direct reflection on how much you like yourself.Lululemon
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.Pearl Buck
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.Marcus Aurelius
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.Oprah Winfrey
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.Charles Swindoll
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.Cynthia Ozick
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.Bernice Reagon
Fear of failure is one attitude that will keep you at the same point in your life.Byron Pulsifer
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.Angela Schwindt
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.Gautama Buddha
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.George Bernard Shaw
You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.Caroline Myss
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavours to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.Gautama Buddha
Although there may be tragedy in your life, there's always a possibility to triumph. It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.Oprah Winfrey
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.Albert Einstein
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.Gail Sheehy
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.Wayne Dyer
Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be.Grandma Moses
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.Corita Kent
Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.Anais Nin
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.Richard Bach
Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by its breathtaking moments.Michael Vance
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.Bruce Lee
The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.Mark Twain
To ensure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.William Londen
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.Gautama Buddha
To change ones life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions.William James
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.Dr. David M. Burns
The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.H. Bertram Lewis
Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.Charles A. Lindbergh
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.Alfred Adler
The most decisive actions of our life... are most often unconsidered actions.André Gide
He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.Chinese proverb
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?George Eliot
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.Richard Bach
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.Katherine Mansfield
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.William Blake
Spring is a time for rebirth and the fulfilment of new life.Byron Pulsifer
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.Winston Churchill
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.Wayne Dyer
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.Carl Jung
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.Denis Waitley
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.Barack Obama
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.Gautama Buddha
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.Henry James
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.Albert Einstein
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.Albert Camus
I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?Richard Bach
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.Edwin Markham
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.Jim Rohn
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life.Anais Nin
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.Albert Camus
If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us.Daisaku Ikeda
If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.Carla Gordon
The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.Eckhart Tolle
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.May Sarton
One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that ones life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.Hannah Senesh
Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of life.Robert C. Solomon
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.Aristotle
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.Eddie Cantor
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.Confucius
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.Elbert Hubbard
To know your purpose is to live a life of direction, and in that direction is found peace and tranquillity.Byron Pulsifer
Into each life rain must fall but rain can be the giver of life and it is all in your attitude that makes rain produce sunshine.Byron Pulsifer
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.Tony Robbins
Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life and yet less attached to it.Ram Dass
The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.Deepak Chopra
If you resist change, you resist life.Sadhguru
The sign of intelligence is that you are always wondering. Idiots are always sure about everything they are doing in their life.Sadhguru
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.Stephen Hawking
The natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.David Attenborough
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.Virginia Woolf
A body of clay, a mind brimming with joy, a life of one fleeting moment — that is my introduction.Harivansh Rai Bachchan
No more supplication — now there shall be war: victory in life, or death.Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
I am not angry with you, O life; I am only bewildered by you.Gulzar
We have a little, and a little is all we need; life, somehow, carries on.Gulzar
The purpose of literature is the criticism of life.Munshi Premchand
Each person must live their life as a model for others.Rosa Parks
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.Steve Jobs
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life.John D. Rockefeller
Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive.Ratan Tata
My life between 22 yards for 24 years; it is hard to believe that that wonderful journey has come to an end.Sachin Tendulkar
Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.Shah Rukh Khan
Change is the nature of life but challenge is the aim of life. So you have to challenge the changes, not change the challenges.Amitabh Bachchan
If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.Leonardo DiCaprio
The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy — it's all that matters.Audrey Hepburn
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.Charlie Chaplin
Custom is the great guide of human life.David Hume

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.Marcus Aurelius

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life.'Wayne Dyer

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.Oprah Winfrey

Imagine all the people living life in peace.John Lennon

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.Mary Shelley

There is one truth that must be sought after first before you can go further and that truth is that you must take charge of your own life for you cannot lead a life of truth if you let someone else take responsibility for your thoughts or actions.Byron Pulsifer

Make each day of the week like Friday and your life will take on new enthusiasm.Byron Pulsifer

Wednesday is a day to help others celebrate life. You and only you are accountable for what you extend and give to others.Byron Pulsifer

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.Dalai Lama

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.Marcus Aurelius

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.Kahlil Gibran

Life is available only in the present moment.Thich Nhat Hanh

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life.Bruce Lee

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.Aristotle

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships.Tony Robbins

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.Rosalind Franklin

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.Richard Bach

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

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly.Marcus Aurelius

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.Rabindranath Tagore

We learn not in school, but in life.Seneca

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.Oprah Winfrey

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.George Bernard Shaw

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves — say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.Bill Watterson

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.Wayne Dyer

Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well.Epictetus

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.Marcus Aurelius

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.Rabindranath Tagore

So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.Helen Keller

My life is my message.Mahatma Gandhi

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life.Swami Vivekananda

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.Jackie Robinson

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.Wayne Dyer

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?Rumi

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.William Shakespeare

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.Kahlil Gibran

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.Bruce Lee

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.Bruce Lee

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.Mark Twain

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.Mark Twain

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.Carl Jung

Strength is life, weakness is death.Swami Vivekananda

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.Albert Schweitzer

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.Charlotte Brontë

Life begins where fear ends.Osho