The Best Life Quotes

Choice

The history of free man is never written by chance
But by choice. Their choice.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dying

When a swan feels that the time has come for them to die
They sing more loudly and more sweetly
Than they have sung in all their lives before,
For joy that they are going away into the presence of God
Whose servants they are.
-Socrates

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Follow Your Bliss

Profound joy of the heart is like
A magnet that indicates the path of life.
- Mother Teresa

But each incarnation, you might say, has a potentiality, and the mission of life is to live that potentiality. How do you do it? My answer is, "Follow your bliss." There is something inside you that knows when you are in the center, that knows when you are on the beam or off the beam. And if you get off the beam to earn money, you have lost your life. And if you stay in the center and don't get any money, you still have your bliss.
-Joseph Campbell

Gratitude

There are 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

Write in your heart that every day
Is the best day of the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live Fully

I hope to die young at a very old age.
- Anonymous

When you were born you cried
And the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
The world cries and you rejoice.
- Cherokee saying

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count.
It's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

Don't play for safety.
It's the most dangerous thing in the world.
- Hugh Walpole

It’s not the critic who counts, or the person who pointed out how the strong person stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the person who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends themselves in a worthy cause; who at best knows the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if they fail, at least fails while daring greatly, so that their place will never be with those cold and timid souls, who know neither victory nor defeat.
-Theodore Roosevelt

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Purpose

The great use of life is to spend it
For something that outlasts it.
- William James

The true meaning of life is to plant trees
Under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Mandela

My life is my message.
- Gandhi

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment. Therein, he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.
-Victor Frankl

When you are inspired by some great purpose,
Some extraordinary project,
All your thoughts break their bounds.
Your mind transcends limitations,
Your consciousness expands in every direction,
And you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world.
- The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer

Vocation is the place
Where your deep gladness
And the world's hunger meets.
-Frederick Buechner

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Service

Few of us can do great things,
But all of us can do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

The fruit of silence is prayer.
The fruit of prayer is faith.
The fruit of faith is love.
The fruit of love is service.
The fruit of service is peace.
- Mother Teresa.

Thee lift me and I'll lift thee and we'll ascend together
- Quaker Proverb

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

One hundred years from now, it will not matter
What kind of car I drove,
What kind of house I lived in,
How much money I had in my bank account,
Nor what my clothes looked like.
But the world may be a little better
Because I was important in the life of a child.
- Anonymous

I sought my God and my God I could not find.
I sought my soul and my soul eluded me.
I sought my brother to serve him in his need,
And I found all three - my God, my soul, and thee.
- Anonymous

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Take Time

Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
Take time to think.
It is the price of power.
Take time to play.
It is the secret of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the foundation of wisdom.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to dream.
It is hitching your wagon to a star.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is the privilege of the gods.
Take time to look around.
The day is too short to be selfish.
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
-Author unknown

True Success

Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even
one life has breathed easier because you have lived -
that is the meaning of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Virtue

For I spend all my time going about trying to persuade you, young and old, to make your first and chief concern not for your bodies or for your possessions, but for the highest welfare of your souls, proclaiming as I go, "Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth, and every other blessing."
-Socrates

People are often unreasonable,
Illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind,
People may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends
And some true friends;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank,
People may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building,
Someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness,
They may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today,
People will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world your best anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
- Mother Teresa