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“You may think that in everyday life, the things that you see and hear influence what you feel, but it’s mostly the other way around. What you feel alters your sight and hearing.” – Lisa Feldman Barrett
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“I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.” ― G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America
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“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” – Viktor Frankl
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“Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.” – Viktor Frankl
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“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfil the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.” – Viktor Frankl
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“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” – Viktor Frankl
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“A life of short duration could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.” – Viktor Frankl
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“The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life.” – Viktor Frankl
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“Be willing to destroy anything in your life that isn’t excellent.” – Joe Polish
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“Every life is a pile of good things and bad things.” – Dr. Who
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“You first have to change the way a person thinks and sees themself. You’ve got to create a sense of aspiration, a sense of hopefulness, so the person can begin to even have a vision for a better life, and if you can’t connect to that, then you lose and they lose.” – Oprah Winfrey
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“Passion is what makes life interesting.” – Pat Tillman
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“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” – Jackie Robinson
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“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.” – Shannon L. Alder
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“To change one’s life:
Start immediately.
Do it flamboyantly.
No exceptions.”
– William James
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“Fear tricks us into living a boring life.” – Donald Miller
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“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” – Diane Ackerman
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“Life has no remote. Get up and change it yourself.” – Mark Cooper
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“The life in front of you is far more important than the life behind you.” – Joel Osteen
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“Life is arranged against us. We’re all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren’t we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we’ll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that’s all.” – Sue Monk Kidd
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“There is a life force, a vitality that exists within each of us that longs to be translated into action.” – Martha Graham
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“From now on, my life lived will be my life’s work. ” – Mari Andrew
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“Your sense of self tells you how to think, feel, and behave; so if you want to change the way you experience life, reconsider your options for how you see yourself.” – Shaun Roundy
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“Don’t save your life, spend it! Spend it all! Spend it on the present or the future, but never the past.” – Shaun Roundy
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“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.” “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. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” – Steve Jobs
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“Contrary to popular opinion, quitting is for winners. Knowing when to quit, change direction, leave a toxic situation, demand for from life, give up on something that wasn’t working and move on…is a very important skill that people who win at life all seem to have.” – Steven Bartlett
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“Most people don’t form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.” – David Brooks
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“Your body is not your masterpiece, it’s your paintbrush to transfer your insides onto the canvas of your life – where others can see it and be inspired and comforted by it.” – Glennon Melton (paraphrased)
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“Life is not a comfort-centric experience, but a growth-centric experience.” – Peter Sage
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“Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it’s ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That’s just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it’s breathtakingly beautiful.” – L.R. Knost
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“Your body is not your masterpiece – your life is. It is suggested to us a million times a day that our bodies are projects. They aren’t. Our lives are. Our spirituality is. Our relationships are. Our work is. Stop spending all day obsessing, cursing, perfecting your body like it’s all you’ve got to offer the world. Your body is not your art, it’s your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scatched up paintbrush is completely irrelevant. What is relevant is that you have a paintbrush which can be used to transfer your insides onto the canvas of your life – where others can see it and be inspired and comforted by it.” – Glennon Melton
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“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“If you want life to change, then you have to change. If you want life to get better, then you have to get better. What does it take to be happy? Progress. Progress equals happiness. Even if you’re not where you want to be yet, if you are on the road, if you’re improving, if you are making progress, you’re going to love it. You’re going to feel alive.” -Anthony Robbins
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“Our kids have to learn to be self-motivated because at some point in every person’s life, either at school or in a job or in a marriage, he or she will have to buck up and say, “This is hard. This is boring. I don’t want to do this. But I’m doing it anyway. And I’ll do my best.” – Laura Hanby Hudgens
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“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
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“Think, feel, be, do, have. That’s how life works, in that order.” – Shaun Roundy
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“The way you talk to yourself about yourself both reveals and creates who you think you are, which determines your life experience.” – Shaun Roundy
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“The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer. There are many men who feel a kind of twister pride in cynicism; there are many who confine themselves to criticism of the way others do what they themselves dare not even attempt. There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty.” – Theodore Roosevelt
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“The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer. There are many men who feel a kind of twister pride in cynicism; there are many who confine themselves to criticism of the way others do what they themselves dare not even attempt.” – Theodore Roosevelt
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“Expectation + Action = Creation of your life experiences.” – Jennice Vilhauer
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