Great Quotes About Life To Learn From

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“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. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
– Louise Erdrich

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West

“Where there is love there is life.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Action expresses priorities.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
– Marc Riboud

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
– Margaret Mead

“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
– Margaret Mitchell

“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”
– Marilyn Monroe

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

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

“Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
– Mark Twain

“I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.”
– Markus Zusak

“You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.”
– Mary Oliver

“Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.”
– Maya Angelou

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
– Narcotics Anonymous

“Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.”
– Natalie Babbitt

“Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can’t get any better, it can.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“Our lives can’t be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough”
– Oprah Winfrey

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
– Pablo Picasso

“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think that yours is the only path.”
– Paulo Coelho

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”
– Paulo Coelho

“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
– Peter Shaffer

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