As one matures and realizes the value of life, one is grateful to be looking at this side of the dirt. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is being grateful to be alive.
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
Will Smith
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.
Sai Baba
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
Erma Bombeck
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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