Famous Quotes On Life And Happiness

• 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. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Steve Jobs

• If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. Ernest Hemingway

• We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell

• Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. Ernest Hemingway

• I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. Steve Jobs

• Everything is hard before it is easy. Goethe

• The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. William Hazlitt

• The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects. Chanakya

• Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark. Dan Millman

• It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you. Marilyn Monroe

• It’s not about better time management. It’s about better life management Alexandra of The Productivity Zone

• The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched they must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller

• False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. Richard Burton

• I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds. Joan Rivers

• To be free is to have achieved your life. Tennessee Williams

• Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. George Bernard Shaw

• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche

• I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself. Wayne W. Dyer

• You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox. Wayne Dyer

• Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. Khalil Gibran

• Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. Wilma Rudolph

• Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. Keri Russell

• You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action. Tony Robbins

• Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again. Steve Jobs

• Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. Kevyn Aucoin

• If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. Meister Eckhart

• Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals. David Ogilvy

• What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. Mark Twain

• There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life. Henry David Thoreau

• Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. Norman Cousins

• Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy they heed not our expectancy But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile. Gerald Massey

• I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse. The Godfather

• Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. Earl Nightingale

• If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Napoleon Hill

• Everything has been figured out, except how to live. Jean-Paul Sartre

• The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time. Joe Girard

• You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am. Kim Kardashian

• Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits. Unknown

• The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. Henry David Thoreau

• The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Nelson Mandela

• If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. Bruce Lee

• It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. Elizabeth Kenny

• All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney

• Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got. Janis Joplin

• I just wanna let them know that they didn’t break me. Pretty in Pink

• I was smart enough to go through any door that opened. Joan Rivers

• If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers! Marilyn Monroe

• Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. Augustine

• When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone. Melissa McCarthy

• Don’t quit yet, the worst moments are usually followed by the most beautiful silver linings. You have to stay strong, remember to keep your head up and remain hopeful. Unknown

• If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa

• Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life. Joyce Brothers

• Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection. Marilyn Monroe

• Take the risk or lose the chance. Unknown

• If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. Oscar Wilde

• Life is lived on the edge. Will Smith

• Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her. Yulia Tymoshenko

• We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced. Malala Yousafzai

• If you think someone could use a friend. Be one. Unknown

• Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep. Fran Lebowitz

• I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger. Mia Hamm

• In life you need either inspiration or desperation. Tony Robbins

• The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. Epicurus

• Hold the vision, trust the process. Unknown

• I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? Ernest Hemingway

• If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success. James Cameron

• All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. Abraham Lincoln

• Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. Tony Robbins

• We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can. Will Rogers