Inspirational Quotes: Life & Living

Life is like a library owned by the author.
In it are a few books which he wrote himself,
but most of them were written for him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

 

Our life's a stage, a comedy:
either learn to play and take it lightly,
or bear its troubles patiently.
Palladas

Love the earth and sun and animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labor to others,
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Walt Whitman

When one door closes, another opens;
but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door
that we do not see the one that has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.
Mother Theresa

Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out
from behind the clouds,
Shine!!!
Buddha

Work like you don't need the money,
love like you've never been hurt
and dance like no one is watching.
Randall G Leighton

You must be the change
you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

To live content with small means;
to seek elegance rather than luxury;
and refinement rather than fashion;
to be worthy, not respectable;
and wealthy, not rich;
to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly;
to listen to stars and birds,
to babes and sages, with open heart;
to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely,
await occasion, hurry never;
in a word, to let the spiritual,
unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common.
This is to be my symphony.
William Ellery Channing