Life is about … (quotes)

Life is about what you make of it

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Life is about being all you can be

  • Life is about becoming more of who you really are… Oprah Winfrey
  • Life is about using the whole box of crayons. Ru Paul
  • Life is a lively process of becoming. Douglas MacArthur
  • Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. Anne Wilson Schaef
  • Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. Tony Robbins
  • Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.  Charles M. Schulz
  • Potential
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Life is about growth

  • Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old. Bill Walton
  • Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. Morihei Ueshiba
  • Growth
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Life is about allowing your talents to blossum

  • Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius. Robert Brault
  • Life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom. Les Brown
  • Talent
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Life is about learning

  • Life is a dance. If you’re smart, you learn the steps. Yiddish Proverb
  • Life is a schooling for eternity. Gottfried Keller
  • Life is a long lesson in humility. James M. Barrie
  • Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be. Steve Maraboli
  • Life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
  • Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Helen Keller
  • All of life is a constant education. Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Life is the only real teacher. It offers many experiences….But the lessons of experience are hidden.  Dan Millman
  • Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. Edith Wharton
  • Life is one long experiment in learning. Who can be perfect all the time? Sometimes I feel half- wise, sometimes half- stupid.   Terri Guillemets
  • Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love. Henry Drummond
  • Learning
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Life is about experimenting and making mistakes

  • Life is trying things to see if they work. Ray Bradbury
  • Life is a kind of laboratory where you’re constantly experimenting with your own higher knowing, always increasing your capacity to design the life you choose. David Emerald
  • Life is an experiment in which you may fail or succeed. Explore more, expect least. Santosh Kalwar
  • Life is one long experiment in learning. Who can be perfect all the time? Sometimes I feel half- wise, sometimes half- stupid.   Terri Guillemets
  • Experimentation,  Mistakes
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Life is about personal transformation and refinement

  • Life is a refining process. Our response to it determines whether we’ll be ground down or polished up. Barbara Johnson
  • Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. Anaïs Nin
  • Life is a continous journey of transformation. Sukant Ratnakar
  • Life is a constant process of limitless creation. It is about recreating Who You are, by remembering all you have always known, and choosing what you want to experience of your Self. Neale Donald Walsch
  • Life is transformation; staying static is a kind of death. Lori Deschene
  • Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shore
  • Transformation
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Life is about shaping yourself and forging your character

  • Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. Samuel Butler
  • Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are shaping ourselves at every moment by every decision we make. Kent Nerburn
  • Character
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Life is about practicing the art of living and making your life into a masterpiece

  • Life is a creative act – like a painting, or a concerto. Ram Dass
  • Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. John Gardner
  • Life is art. Life is sacred art.  The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from the soul rather than the ego.  Gabrielle Roth
  • Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes, your easy smile is your museum. Ansel Adams
  • Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. Danny Kaye
  • Life is a creative process, not a journey of discovery or a school of learning. Neale Donald Walsch
  • Life as a work of art,  Mastery
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Life is about appreciating what a sacred gift life is and sharing that gift with others

  • Life is a gift, given in trust – like a child. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Life is a gift and a challenge. Jay Payleitner
  • Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. Marge Piercy
  • Life is one of those precious fleeting gifts, and everything can change in a heartbeat.
  • Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. Tony Robbins
  • Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate. Albert Einstein
  • Life is a gift,  Appreciation
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Life is about relationships

  • Life is nothing without friendship. Cicero
  • Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much longer. But all are necessary, otherwise they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act. Wayne Dyer
  • Life is relationships… The rest is just details.
  • Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations. Deborah Tannen
  • Life is nothing without friendship. Cicero
  • Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
  • Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations. Deborah Tannen
  • Principles for healthy relationships
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Life is about loving

  • Life is about making love. To everything. Love is the point of it all. Neale Donald Walsch
  • Life is nothing but the expansion of love. Sri Chinmoy
  • Life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter. Oprah Winfrey
  • Life is nothing but the expansion of love. Sri Chinmoy
  • Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love. Henry Drummond
  • Life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter. Oprah Winfrey
  • Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art. Miguel Ruiz
  • Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way. Bernie Siegel
  • Life is love, enjoy it. Sai Baba
  • Love
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Life is about helping others

  • Life is a wall, you have to climb it by pushing others to climb over and you will be pushed as well. Give a helping hand today. Bernard Kelvin
  • Helpfulness
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Life is about making a contribution

  • Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. Tony Robbins
  • Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell. Benjamin Zander
  • Life is a contribution. Pete Seeger
  • Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way. Bernie Siegel
  • Contribution
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Life is about the journey, not the destination

  • Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. Oliver Goldsmith
  • Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way. Nancy Simms
  • Life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination. Tal Ben- Shahar
  • Life is a journey, not a destination. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. Oliver Goldsmith
  • Life is a voyage. Victor Hugo
  • Life is a journey
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Life is about following your own path

  • Life is a journey towards God, and no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road. Pat Buckley
  • Follow your own path
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Life is about taking small, consistent steps

  • Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life. Ralph Ransom
  • The power of small steps
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Life is about overcoming obstacles and solving problems

  • If life is a highway, I wish someone would finish with construction already. I’m tired of the detours, road blocks and pot holes.
  • Life is a journey, with problems to solve, lessons to learn, but most of all, experiences to enjoy. Ritu Ghatourey
  • Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that. James Dyson
  • Life is problems. Living is solving problems. Raymond E. Feist
  • Life is like a highway, no matter what they say, the construction is never finished. There’s always gonna be bumps in the road and detours every now and then. Nishan Panwar
  • Obstacles,  Problem solving
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Life is about making choices and decisions

  • Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. Timothy Fuller
  • Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make. Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • Life is the sum of all your choices. Albert Camus
  • Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more. Ray Dalio
  • Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. Lillian Dickson
  • Choice,  Decision making
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Life is about capitalising on opportunities

  • Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you. Osho
  • Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. Tony Robbins
  • Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way. Bernie Siegel
  • Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Mother Theresa
  • Opportunity
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Life is about taking risks

  • Life is a risk. Diane Von Furstenberg
  • Life is a gamble, at terrible odds – if it was a bet you wouldn’t take it. Tom Stoppard
  • Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. Denis Waitley
  • Life is for the gambler, it really is. Anthony de Mello
  • Risk taking
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Life is about appreciating how fleeting life is

  • Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death. Desmond Morris
  • Life is like a buffalo. Its there and then its gone. Life comes and goes like the cloud of a moist breath on a cloudy morning. Sioux Saying
  • Life is brief—a flash of lightning, a snap of eternity’s fingers. Dan Millman
  • Life is eternal. But the expressions of life are ephemeral, momentary, transient. Deepak Chopra
  • Life is too short to be little. Disraeli
  • Life is half spent before we know what it is. George Herbert
  • Each instant of life is a step toward death. Pierre Corneille
  • Life is fleeting,  Impermanence
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Life is about embracing each experience of living

  • Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. Henry Ford
  • Your life is a multipart series of all your experiences – and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Oprah Winfrey
  • Life is a run-on sentence. The object is to punctuate it with experience. William Finegan
  • Life is a conspiracy to shower you with a nonstop feast of interesting experiences, all of which are designed to help you grow your intelligence, shed your pretensions, and master the art of ingenious love. Rob Brezsny
  • Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard
  • Embrace all experiences
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Life is about seizing the moment and living for today

  • Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none. Albert Einstein
  • Life is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour and moment. Dale Carnegie
  • Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow. Ron Hubbard
  • Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. William Butler Yeats
  • Life is not a dress rehearsal. Stop practicing what you’re going to do and just go do it. In one bold stroke you can transform today. Marilyn Grey
  • Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it. Lucinda Basset
  • Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.  Ernestine Ulmer
  • Embrace the gift of today
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Life is about embracing adventure

  • Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the sooner we will be able to treat life as art. Maya Angelou
  • Life is an adventure, dare it. Mother Theresa
  • Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty and love. Saul D. Alinsky
  • Life is an adventure. I can only wonder what treasure awaits at the top of the path.  Jonathan Lockwood Huie
  • Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen Keller
  • Life is an adventure in forgiveness. Norman Cousins
  • Adventure
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Life is about playing on the field, not sitting on the sidelines

  • Life’s a game. You have to options. Either you play along or you sit in the bench, watching others play it.
  • Life is a game, play it. Sai Baba
  • Life is the game that must be played. Edwin Arlington Robinson
  • Life is a game and true love is a trophy. Rufus Wainwright
  • Life is a game
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Life is about living a life worth writing about or starring in

  • Life is a book and you are its author. You determine its plot and pace and you—only you—turn its pages. Beth Mende Conny
  • Life is like a novel. You are the author and everyday is a new page.
  • Life is a movie written by, directed by, produced by, and starring—you guessed it—YOU! We are all self- made. It is vital that we control our minds in order to re- create our lives. Will Bowen
  • Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. Jim Henson
  • Life’s like a play; it’s not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters. Seneca
  • Be the author of your life story
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Life is about living in the moment

  • Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed. Corita Kent
  • Life is available only in the present moment. Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Life is just a series of moments. If you miss the moments, you miss your life. Robin Sharma
  • Life is going on Right Here, Right Now — pay attention to that and all will be well. Neale Donald Walsch
  • Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it. Sarah Breathnach
  • Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be. Eckhart Tolle
  • Life is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour and moment. Dale Carnegie
  • Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow. Ron Hubbard
  • Live in the present
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Life is about exploring and discovering

  • Life is an unchartered territory to explore
  • Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time. Leo Buscaglia
  • Life is a myriad of territories to discover. Jeanne Moreau
  • Life is like a vast landscape with both soft grass and sharp thorns; impatience rails at the thorns; patience puts on a pair of shoes. Rick Hanson
  • Exploration,  Discovery
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Life is about finding yourself

  • Life is a cosmic game of hide and seek in which we lose ourselves to find ourselves. Deepak Chopra
  • Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want. Jean Vanier
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Life is about discovering truths

  • Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. Hypatia
  • Life is truth, revealing Itself to Itself. Neale Donald Walsch
  • Life is like an apple. You gradually take bites and eventually, you get to the core. Carly Michelle
  • Truth
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Life is about joy and pain

  • Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix. Mignon McLaughlin
  • Life is a tragedy full of joy. Bernard Malamud
  • Life is a rainbow which also includes black. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Life is a combination of magic and pasta. Federico Fellini
  • Life is a cycle of breaking and mending. It breaks you, only to heal. The process should not make us hard, but strong yet gentle… John B. Bejo
  • Life is a cycle, always in motion. If good times have moved on, so will times of trouble. Indian Proverb
  • Life is a rainbow which also includes black. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Life is like a rainbow. You need both the sun and the rain to make its colors appear.
  • Life is happy and sad. Life is joy and grief. Life is health and sickness. Life is excitement and boredom. Life is having friends and being lonely. Life is achieving your goals and failing at your goals. Life is being confused and being sure. John Kehoe
  • Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Cesare Pavese
  • Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. William Goldman
  • Joy,  Pain
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Life is about facing up to the struggle that life can be and not giving up

  • Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight. Haile Gebrselassie
  • Life is a long process of getting tired. Samuel Butler
  • Life is a struggle, but not a warfare. John Burroughs
  • Life is a beautiful struggle.
  • Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas. L. Mencken
  • Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. Voltaire
  • Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes.  Luigi Pirandello
  • Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night. Marion Howard
  • Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work. Indian Proverb
  • Life is problems. Living is solving problems. Raymond E. Feist
  • Adversity,  Perseverance
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Life is about appreciating the wonder and mystery of life

  • Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement. Welwyn Wilton Katz
  • Life is a mystery; don’t waste your time trying to figure it out. Dan Millman
  • Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy. Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. Martin H. Fischer
  • Wonder,  Mystery
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Life is about nurturing and growing your soul

  • Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity. William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Life is a chance to grow a soul. Powell Davies
  • Life is a celebration of awakenings, of new beginnings, and wonderful surprises that enlighten the soul. Cielo
  • Life is sacred art. The art of sacred living means… acting from the soul rather than the ego.  Gabrielle Roth
  • Growth,  The soul
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Life is about awakening and lifting your level of consciousness

  • Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness. Remy de Gourmont
  • Life is a state of consciousness. Emmet Fox
  • Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy. Deepak Chopra
  • Life is consciousness. Emmet Fox
  • Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect. Eckhart Tolle
  • Consciousness
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Life is about following your yearnings

  • Life is not only merriment, it is desire and determination. Kahlil Gibran
  • Life is a desire, not a meaning. Charlie Chaplin
  • Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • Desire
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Life is about realising your dreams

  • Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art. Miguel Ruiz
  • Life is a dream, realise it. Sai Baba
  • Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. Sholom Aleichem
  • Dreams
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Life is about purposeful action

  • Life is a purposeful action. Asa Don Brown
  • The purpose of life is a life of purpose. Robert Byrne
  • Action,  Purpose
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Life is about bouncing back and keeping moving

  • Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce. Vivian Komori
  • Life is really about moving on. Oprah Winfrey
  • Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right. Pope Francis
  • Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. Albert Einstein
  • Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one’s eternal peril. Laurens van der Post
  • Life is full of endings, but every ending is a new beginning.
  • Life is like riding a bicycle. You don’t fall off unless you plan to stop peddling. Claude Pepper
  • Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still. Lou Erickson
  • Momentum
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Life is about making the best of things, even during hard times

  • Life is not about getting through the storms, but about dancing in the rain. Bunny Armstrong
  • Life isn’t finding shelter in the storm. It’s about learning to dance in the rain. Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. Voltaire
  • Life is a roller coaster.You can either scream every time you hit a bump or you can throw your hands up in the air and enjoy it.
  • Life is a series of ups and downs. Relax, let go a little, and enjoy the ride.
  • Adversity
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Life is about laughter and seeing the humour

  • Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. Charlie Chaplin
  • Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it. L. M. Montgomery
  • Life is too important to take too seriously. Richard Carlson
  • Laughter,  Humour
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Life is about thriving

  • Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well. Marcus Valerius Martial
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Life is about improvising as you go

  • Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. John Gardner
  • Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Samuel Butler
  • Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise. George Gershwin
  • Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. Samuel Butler
  • Life is a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments. Lewis Mumford
  • Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. Somerset Maugham
  • Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. Samuel Butler
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Life is about fun and enjoyment

  • Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured. Gordon B. Hinckley
  • Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling. Jim Henson
  • Life is playfulness… We need to play so that we can rediscover the magic all around us. Flora Colao
  • Life is like an ice cream. Enjoy it before it melts.
  • Enjoyment,  Fun
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Life is about how your interpret and respond to things

  • Life is the movie you see through your own unique eyes. It makes little difference what’s happening out there. It’s how you take it that counts. Denis Waitley
  • Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. Charles R. Swindoll
  • Life is determined by how we interpret things so… we might as well choose the most empowering interpretation. Brian Johnson
  • Life is not the way it’s supposed to be. It’s the way it is. The way you deal with it is what makes the difference. Virginia Satir
  • Life is like a seesaw, it has its ups and its downs, but your perception and how you take those ups and downs will determine how you will react to them. Collin Mitchell
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Life is about learning to smile back at life

  • Life is a mirror. If you smile, it smiles back at you; if you frown, it frowns back. William P. Magee
  • Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. Ernest Holmes
  • Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.
  • Smiling
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Life is about flowing with the tide

  • Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult. Prem Rawat
  • Life is a continuous ebb and flow, like the seasons, like the ocean’s waves. When we learn to “ride” with them, our life becomes easier, with less resistance.  Romy Macias
  • Life is a series of ups and downs. Relax, let go a little, and enjoy the ride.
  • Going with the flow
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Life is about change and embracing the unknown

  • Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner
  • Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. David Herbert Lawrence
  • Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu
  • Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. Karen Kaiser Clark
  • The unknown
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Life is about being flexible

  • Life is all about how you handle Plan B.
  • Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans. John Lennon
  • Flexibility
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Life is about going with the flow and letting go of attachments

  • Life is the dancer and you are the dance. Eckhart Tolle
  • Life is water, and we tend to push too hard, thrash about, force things, struggle. Instead, learn to float, learn to allow things to become effortless. Leo Babauta
  • Life is not suffering; it’s just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind’s attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens. Dan Millman
  • Life is safe; flowing with the current of being is the simplest way to live. Resistance never really succeeds. Controlling the flow of life is impossible. Deepak Chopra
  • Non-attachment
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