Life Editor's Pick Quotes

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." — John Wooden
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"You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate" — Logan Smith
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"Seek simplicity, and distrust it." — Alfred Whitehead
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"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it." — William Osler
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"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." — William James
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"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." — Mahatma Gandhi
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"The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them." — Frank Clark
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"Better to ask twice than to lose your way once." — Danish Proverb
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"Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself." — Saint Francis de Sales
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"It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it." — Georg Lichtenberg
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"Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well." — Lord Chesterfield
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"The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool." — William McFee
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"God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way." — Author Unknown
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"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." — A. Milne
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"Some of the greater things in life are unseen; that's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream." — Author Unknown
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"A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble." — Charles Spurgeon
As quoted in Moderator-topics, Volume 5 (1884), pg. 175 Add Category or Author

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." — Author Unknown
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"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." — James M. Barrie
As quoted in Christ's Second Coming Fulfilled (1917) pg. 144 Add Category or Author

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." — Helen Keller
We Bereaved (1929) Add Category or Author

"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." — Buddha
As quoted in The Problem Behind All Problems (2009) pg. 103 Add Category or Author

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad." — C.S. Lewis
The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics (2007) pg. 158 Written in Lewis's book, "Mere Christianity," this quote shows his strong belief in the divine potential of man. Add Category or Author