Quotes to Live BY

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength."
Marcus Aurelius

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"Carefully watch you thoughts, for they become your words.
Manage and watch you words, for they become your actions.
Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits.
Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values.
Understand and embrace your values, for they come your destiny."
Mahatma Gandhi

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"If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you."
Wayne Dyer

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"Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the mental forces of hate, jealousy, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces."
Og Mandino

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"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is a beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realise it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfil 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 life, fight for it!"
Mother Teresa

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"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
Aristotle Onassis

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"If you realised how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought."
Peace Pilgrim

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
Confucius

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"Did I offer peace today?
Did I bring a smile to someone's face?
Did I say worlds of healing?
Did I let go of my anger and resentment?
Did I forgive?
Did I love?
These are the real questions.
I must trust that the little bit of love I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come."
Henri Nouwen

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"In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact."
Les Brown

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"Be not afraid of life, Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
William James

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"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty."
Mother Teresa

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"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not twist them to fit in our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflections of ourselves we find in them."
Thomas Merton, No Man is an Island

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"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."
John Keats

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"Remember, you have been criticising yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens."
Louise L. Hay - You Can Heal Your Life

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"I hope that you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind."
Neil Gaiman​

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"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving."
Martin Luther King, Jr.​

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"Do or do not. There is no try."
Yoda (George Lucas), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

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"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."
Maya Angelou

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."
Will Durant - The Story of Philosophy

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"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."
Epictetus

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"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."
John Wesley

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"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
Reinhold Niebuhr

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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity."
Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
Epicurus

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"Do what you can with what you have, where you are."
Theodore Roosevelt

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"Success is not getting what you want, it's enjoying what you have."
Glen Campbell

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"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer and forgiveness."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness

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"There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches posses people."
Billy Graham

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"Reflect upon your present blessings - of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

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"Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own troubles be sufficient for the day."
Matthew 6:34

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"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."
Confucius

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"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."
Og Mandino

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"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

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"Forgiveness. It is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that."
Maya Angelou

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"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well."
Voltaire

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"Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them yours."
Zig Ziglar

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"The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."
Aesop

Source: 365 Quotes to Live Your Life By: Powerful, Inspiring & Life-Changing Words of Wisdom to Brighten Up Your Days - I. C. Robledo