Wise and Inspirational Words Collection

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have. Ralph Marston What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. Wayne Dyer When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?' Sydney J. Harris When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. Erma Bombeck When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. Eleanor Roosevelt When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. Mark Twain Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the j...

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. Gilbert K. Chesterton The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. William Morris The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. Eminem There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. Stephen Covey This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. William Shakespeare Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too. Will Smith To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. Buddha Use your health, ...

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. Horace The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. Marcus Aurelius The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. John F. Kennedy The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Ralph Waldo Emerson The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters. Audrey Hepburn The only disability in life is a bad attitude. Scott Hamilton The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. Henry David Thoreau The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. Joseph Campbell The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl Jung The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. Jimi Hendrix

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. Cary Grant My life is my message. Mahatma Gandhi Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. Harvey Fierstein Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. Socrates 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 Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life. John F. Kennedy Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Albert Einstein Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living? Bob Marley Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. Soren Kierkegaard Our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius

Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it. Sai Baba Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Helen Keller Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. Charlie Chaplin Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. Oscar Wilde Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time. Miguel Angel Ruiz Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. John Lennon Life loves the liver of it. Maya Angelou May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift

Beware the barrenness of a busy life. Socrates 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 Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. Wayne Dyer Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain Don't go through life, grow through life. Eric Butterworth Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. Richard L. Evans Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. Henry David Thoreau Every man dies. Not every man really lives. William Wallace

It is not length of life, but depth of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family. Philip Green Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. Albert Schweitzer Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. Ralph Waldo Emerson Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. Josh Billings Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. George Bernard Shaw Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. Irving Berlin Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. Sholom Aleichem Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. Jose Ortega y Gasset Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates...

I love life because what more is there? Anthony Hopkins I love those who yearn for the impossible. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burroughs I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. Charles M. Schulz I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. Eleanor Roosevelt If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's h...

Everything has been figured out, except how to live. Jean-Paul Sartre Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. Richard Bach How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. E. B. White I do not regret one moment of my life. Lillie Langtry I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what...

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Carl Sandburg A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. Jackie Robinson A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. James Allen A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. Robert Frost All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. Havelock Ellis Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. Anton Chekhov Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James