Life Celebration Quotes
Crafted with the reader in mind, this collection is clearly divided by themes:
Albert Einstein
A human being experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Bertrand Russell
Philosophy cannot itself determine the ends of life, but it can free us from the tyranny of prejudice and from distortions due to a narrow view. Love, beauty, knowledge, and joy in life; these things retain their lustre however wide our review. And if philosophy can help us to feel the value of these things, it will have played its part in man’s collective work of bringing light into a world of darkness.
Confucius
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Franz Kafka
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Henry David Thoreau
It’s the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.
Khalil Gibran
Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.
Maya Angelou
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Socrates
No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of
intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded.
Thich Nhat Hanh
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
Other Voices
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. William Arthur Ward
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I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
Boris Pasternak
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity.
William S. Burrows
