Life Celebration Quotes
Crafted with the reader in mind, this collection is clearly divided by themes:
Agatha Christie
But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
Albert Camus
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead.
Walk beside me… just be my friend.
Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
Anaïs Nin
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
I can only connect deeply or not at all.
Bertrand Russell
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Carl Jung
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Bob Marley
The biggest coward is a man who awakens a woman’s love without the intention of loving her.
Dalai Lama
What is love? Love is the absence of judgement.
Erich Fromm
Love isn’t something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t feeling, it is a practice.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
Georgia O'Keeffe
You are one of my nicest thoughts.
Hermann Hesse
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love what it will.
Desire and pleasure end in sorrow and love has no sorrow.
Leo Tolstoy
When you love someone, you love the person as they are,
and not as you’d like them to be.
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
Leonard Cohen
This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, we have the sense that we cannot live without love, that life has very little meaning without it.
To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.
Mahatma Gandhi
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it - always.
Marcus Aurelius
Never value anything as profitable that compels you to break your promise, to lose your self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything that needs walls and curtains.
It never ceases to amaze me. We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
Pablo Picasso
Love is the realest refreshment in life.
Plato
Love is a serious mental disease.
Simone de Beauvoir
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Socrates
By all means marry; if you get a good [spouse] , you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
Vincent van Gogh
The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
William Shakespeare
Don’t waste your love on somebody who doesn’t value it. is the greatest refreshment in life.
O Lord that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
Akira Kurosawa
Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.
Averroes
Love is something you and I must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. We must have it because without it we become weak and faint. Without love our self-esteem weakens. Without it our courage fails. Without love we can no longer look confidently at the world. We turn inward and begin to feed upon our own personalities, and little by little we destroy ourselves.
With it we are creative. With it we march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others.
Chief Dan George
Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons.
Denzel Washington
I think I fall in love a little bit with anyone who shows me their soul. This world is so guarded and fearful. I appreciate rawness so much.
Emery Allen
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
George MacDonald
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
To hate
Is an easy lazy thing
But to love
Takes strength
Everyone has
But not all are
Willing to practice
Rupi Kaur
Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.
Thomas Merton
The best portion of a good man’s life; his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
William Wordsworth
To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. To love is a consummation.
Victor Hugo
Gratitude
Alan Watts
The meaning of happiness consists in three elements - freedom, gratitude, and the sense of wonder.
Carl Jung
If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.
Maya Angelou
Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Rumi
Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything.
Why not keep this resource at your fingertips?
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Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
A.A. Milne, 'Winnie-the-Pooh'
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop
What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.
Brené Brown
The root of joy is gratefulness. It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.
Brother David Steindl-Rast
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever.
Charlotte Brontë
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
C.S. Lewis
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.
Douglas Wood
It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.
Germany Kent
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy
Gratitude bestows reverence...changing forever how we experience life and the world.
John Milton
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thornton Wilder
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
Willie Nelson
