Life Editor's Pick Quotes

"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference." — Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken (1916) Published in Frost's Mountain Interval, the poem this quote is taken from is often used to show that the "road less traveled" can mean important things for the traveler. However, the poet admits earlier in the poem that the roads "Had worn them really about the same," and that the choice to take the road less traveled was one of future recollection, but of no less import. Add Category or Author

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough." — Rabindranath Tagore
As quoted in Civilization's quotations: life's ideal (2002) pg. 41 Tagore, a Bengali philosopher and Nobel laureate, used the butterfly as a symbol frequently. Other instances of butterfly usage by Tagore include, "The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him," and "The little flower lies in the dust. It sought the path of the butterfly." Add Category or Author

"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen." — Mark Twain
As quoted in Autobiography with Letters (1939) pg. 965 Add Category or Author

"The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence." — Samuel Johnson
The Idler No. 39 (January 13, 1759) Published in a series of one hundred and three essays, in a periodical likely to have been produced strictly for the essays themselves. Add Category or Author

"Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others." — Neil Strait
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"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." — Albert Einstein
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." — Teilhard Chardin
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"It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through the tears." — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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"This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later." — Laura Schlessinger
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"Dont ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." — Howard Thurman
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"The times in our lives in which we feel that we have the least power are actually the times when we have the most. Those are the times in which we affirm or redefine who we are, what we believe, and make choices that can impact ourselves and those we encounter for a lifetime." — Gail Pursell Elliott
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"There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: Twins." — Josh Billings
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"Keep doing what your're doing and you'll keep getting what your're getting." — Author Unknown
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"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails." — Readers Digest
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"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing." — Marcus Aurelius
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"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting." — Elizabeth Bibesco
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"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." — Oprah Winfrey
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"Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly." — Author Unknown
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"You don't get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live." — Joan Baez
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"Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time." — Marian Edelman
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"There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself." — Hermann Hesse
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