Life Celebration Quotes
Crafted with the reader in mind, this collection is clearly divided by themes:
Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Aristotle
You will never do anything in this life without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Bob Marley
Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but it’s everything in between that makes it all worth living.
Carl Jung
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Charles Bukowski
You’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that.
They thought I had guts but they had it all wrong. I was only frightened of more important things.
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us.
I was laying in bed one night and I thought I’ll just quit. To hell with it. And another little voice inside me said, “Don’t quit. Save that tiny little ember of spark. And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again.”
You have to die a few times before you can really live.
Frida Kahlo
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer! At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due — it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!
Georgia O'Keeffe
To create one's own world takes courage.
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
Hermann Hesse
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Mahatma Gandhi
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate, but it is fear.
Marie Curie
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Mark Twain
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
Maya Angelou
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Oscar Wilde
It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love.
Rumi
I do not waste my words on tired minds, I can only talk to those who are thirsty for the sea.
I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.
Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
Seneca
Nothing is more disgraceful than a man hesitant and uncertain and backing off in timidity.
Sir Isaac Newton
Live your life as an exclamation rather than an explanation.
You have to make the rules, not follow them.
Socrates
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
Thucydides
The secret to happiness is freedom. The secret to freedom is courage.
Vincent van Gogh
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Walt Disney
When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. And one thing it takes to accomplish something is courage.
William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
Other Voices
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Stand up for who you are. Respect yourself and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers. Choose your rights and work together with others to bring blessings into the lives.
Amit Ray
And there it stood, a flower on a rock, where nothing else lived for a hundred miles in every direction.
This flower was life, standing proud to the sky, lapping up sunlight, digging her roots into the ground, she was living, no matter what the world told her she couldn’t do, she just went on, chin up into the sun - and I realized, that life, by its very nature, is brave.
Atticus
Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.
Bell Hooks
The greatest antidote for fear, is competence.
Chris Hadfield
The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.
David Icke
There are four things in this life that will change you: love, music, art, and loss. The first three will keep you wild and full of passion. May you allow the last to make you brave.
Erin Van Vuren
Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
George Addair
Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman
Real courage… It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee
I imagine if one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Baldwin
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
John Maxwell
“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.” Spiritual hunger is a gift from God that must be guarded. In the natural, we get hungry by not eating.
Matthew 5:6
Soul would have us go where we fear to go in order to learn who we are intended to be.
Michael Meade
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive… the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
Miguel Ruiz
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
William Faulkner