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May 2023 Life Quotes

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open."

— John Barrymore

"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every day is a new beginning, take a deep breath and start again."

— Unknown

"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek."

— Joseph Campbell

"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance."

— Eckhart Tolle

"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."

— Jim Rohn

"The most wasted of days is one without laughter."

— E.E. Cummings

"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive."

— Hafez

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

— Abraham Lincoln

"Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it."

— Lindsey

"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."

— William Arthur Ward

"Do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid."

— Arianna Huffington

"Do not discourage yourself with what you haven't done, encourage yourself with what you will do."

— Neale Donald Walsch

"What you do matters, but why you do it matters much more."

— Unknown

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."

— Michelangelo

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough."

— Oprah Winfrey

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

— Charles R. Swindoll

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

— Thomas A. Edison

"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."

— Albert Einstein

"Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth."

— Zhuangzi

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."

— Helen Keller

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

— Zig Ziglar

"Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there."

— Will Smith

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

— Mark Twain

"For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."

— Vincent Van Gogh

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

— Nelson Mandela

"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

— Maya Angelou

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking."

— Steve Jobs

"When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

— Vince Lombardi