Quotes About Life

“The best parts of life are hiding in plain sight, embrace the ordinary.” – Katherine Schafler

“We don’t create abundance. Abundance is always present. We create limitations.” – Arnold Patent

“Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand, nor postpone your joys from year to year, so that in whatever place you have been, you may say that you have lived happily.” – Horace

“There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today.” – Thomas Monson

“Enthusiasm is contagious ‑ and so is the lack of it.” – Dale Carnegie

“Children see magic because they look for it.” – Christopher Moore

The man in whom Tao Acts without impediment Harms no other being By his actions Yet he does not know himself To be “kind,” to be “gentle.” The man in whom Tao Acts without impediment Does not bother with his own interests And does not despise Others who do. He does not struggle to make money And does not make a virtue of poverty. He goes his way Without relying on others And does not pride himself On walking alone. While he does not follow the crowd He won’t complain of those who do. Rank and reward Make no appeal to him; Disgrace and shame Do not deter him. He is not always looking For right and wrong Always deciding “Yes” or “No.” The ancients said, therefore: “The man of Tao Remains unknown Perfect virtue Produces nothing ‘No-Self’ Is ‘True-Self.’ And the greatest man Is Nobody.” “The Way of Chuang Tzu” by Thomas Merton

“You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future, but all there will ever be is what’s happening here.” – Jim Carrey

“The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.” – Jim Carrey

“Everything you give, good or bad, comes back ten fold.” – Wendy Stephens

“You don’t need to know where you’re going to be able to get there. Just take that next step and trust yourself.” – Claire Zammit

“Being a hater hater makes you just another hater.” – Shaun Roundy

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things which gives value to survival.” – C. S. Lewis

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

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” – Dalai Lama

“Seek not every quality in one individual.” – Confucius

“He who binds to himself a joy/ Does the winged life destroy/ But he who kisses the joy as it flies/ Lives in eternity’s sun rise” – William Blake

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go” – Oscar Wilde

“If you go through four years of college and haven’t been offended, you should ask for your money back.” – Robert Shibley

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you’ll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” – Rudyard Kipling