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Motivational Thoughts – The Spark Of Your Burning Desire

Life is all memory, except for the present moment that goes by so quick you hardly catch it going. Tennessee Williams

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him. Ben Ames Williams

There are two ways of spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. Henry van Dyke

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. Tao Te Ching

Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you react to it. Charles Swindoll

An unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. Socrates

It is with life as with a play—it matters not how long the action is spun out, but how good the acting is. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. Arthur Schopenhauer

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Eleanor Roosevelt

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. Eleanor Roosevelt

A life is not important, except in the impact it has on other lives. Jackie Robinson

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it. Christopher Darlington Morley

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us. Orison Swett Marden

Who loves not women, wine and song, remains a fool his whole life long. Martin Luther

Life isn’t a matter of milestones but of moments. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Never take life seriously; no one ever comes out alive anyway. Allie Hemphill

Learn as if you would live forever, live as if you would die tomorrow. Mahatma Gandhi

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers. Erich Fromm

I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery, than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. Harry Emerson Fosdick

You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. Evan Esar

When it’s all over, it’s not who you were … it’s whether you made a difference. Robert ‘Bob’ Dole

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. Lillian Dickson

If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the aching or cool one pain or help one fainting robin unto his nest again I shall not live in vain. Emily Dickinson

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Madame Marie Curie

We don’t know yet about life, how can we know about death? Kung Fu-tzu Confucius

If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Joseph Campbell

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. Richard E. Byrd

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. Josh Billings

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. Kenny Ausubel

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear you will make one. Elbert Hubbard

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on. Robert Frost

 

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin

That it will never come again Is what makes life so sweet. Emily Dickinson

Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gandhi

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. Samuel Butler

There are only 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

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed. Guatama Buddha

 

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  1. bestshortstory Said,

    Great quotes. Thank you so much for the words of inspiration.

  2. admin Said,

    Great quotes from great people.

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