When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.Indian proverbTraditional attribution
Inspirational Life Quotes and Sayings That Make You Think
Short selections recovered from GADEL’s original collection. Wording is kept as found; the archived attribution is not a verification of authorship.
God created you to do him some particular service.Bl. John Cardinal NewmanAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying.Michael Landon Jr.Attributed in the original GADEL collection
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.Gerard WayAttributed in the original GADEL collection
When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?Sydney J. HarrisAttributed in the original GADEL collection
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving.Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Don`t go through life, grow through life.Eric ButterworthAttributed in the original GADEL collection
All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair.Richard BachAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.Charles R. SwindollAttributed in the original GADEL collection
To love is to risk not being loved in return.Leo BuscagliaAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.AnonymousTraditional attribution
The difference between school and life?Tom BodettAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Don’t ask what the world needs.Howard ThurmanAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Only three things in life are certain birth, death and change.Arabic proverbTraditional attribution
Every time you wake up ask yourself What good things am I going to do today?Native American proverbTraditional attribution
Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.James DeanAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.Maria RobinsonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything.Win BordenAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Life is full of beauty.Ashley SmithAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.Oscar WildeAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.Flora WhittemoreAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The most important things in life aren’t things.Anthony J. D’AngeloAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.Alex TanAttributed in the original GADEL collection
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.Peter MarshallAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.John N. MitchellAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.Keri RussellAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.Byrd BaggettAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.John W. GardnerAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Every day of your life is a page of your history.Arabic proverbTraditional attribution
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.Walter BagehotAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.Marie CurieAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.John DerekAttributed in the original GADEL collection
All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad.Colin PowellAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose.Chinese proverbTraditional attribution
Live truth instead of professing it.Elbert HubbardAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone.Nido QubeinAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Now is the only time there is.Mark Victor HansenAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.Frank A. ClarkAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Life is half spent before one knows what life is.French proverbTraditional attribution
While there’s life there’s hope.Italian proverbTraditional attribution
A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps as we walk the tightrope of life.Arabic proverbTraditional attribution
Every day is an opportunity to make your life the way you want it to be.Ralph MarstonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.George Bernard ShawAttributed in the original GADEL collection
People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.AnonymousTraditional attribution
Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.Antonio SmithAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Each small task of everyday life is part of the harmony of the universe.St. Therese of LisieuxAttributed in the original GADEL collection
A wise man’s day is worth a fool’s life.Arabic proverbTraditional attribution
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.Joseph CampbellAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Original collection & source
Original title: Inspirational Life Quotes and Sayings That Make You Think
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