Quotes about life

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“Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then — our friends are not able to finish their stories.”

“You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.”

“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it.”

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”

“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”

“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves.”

“It’s impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.”

“Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.”

“When we talk of "exploring the mystical," we are not trying to dig into creation, because if you dig into creation, it will only get more complex. It will not bring clarity; it will only bring more complexity. That is why the yogis looked in a different direction. We looked inward. If you look inward, a different dimension opens up. Now instead of things getting more complex, you get to clarity. It is because of this that we say that those who look inward have a third eye. They see things that others cannot see. They have brought a new clarity to life.”

“Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.”

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”

“That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning.”

“I dreamt my lady came and found me dead
…………
And breathed such life with kisses in my lips
That I revived and was an emperor.”

“You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we're not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously use your power.”

“Life will find a way.”

“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”

“the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.”

“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”

“Life may contain the "essence" (what else could?); recollection, the repetition in imagination, may decipher the essence and deliver to you the "elixir"; and eventually you may even be privileged to "make" something out of it, "to compound the story." But life itself is neither essence nor elixir, and if you treat as such it will only play its tricks on you.”

“Life goes on within you and without you”

“You've got to have something to eat, and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.”

“The intellect of man is forced to choose
Perfection of the life, or of the work,
And if it take the second must refuse
A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.”

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.”

“No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.”

“Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.”

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”

“He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.”

“If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.”

“When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.”

“The life of every human being on earth can depend on the experience, judgment, and vigilance of the person in the Oval Office.”

“Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.”

“And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree.”

“Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.”

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”

“I'm not straight, and I'm not gay. I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.”

“You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.”

“She believed, of course… because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”

“After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.”

“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”

“Every moment there are a million miracles happening around you: a flower blossoming, a bird tweeting, a bee humming, a raindrop falling, a snowflake wafting along the clear evening air. There is magic everywhere. If you learn how to live it, life is nothing short of a daily miracle.”

“I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole—and yet—and yet—it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!”

“That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.”

“You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.”

“There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.”

“If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again.”

“None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.”

“I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around the corner.”

“Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.”

“We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.”

“There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.”

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

“You’re my best friend, Shmuel,’ he said. ‘My best friend for life.”

“Seeing the world with all the unspoiled simplicity of a young child, you are free from concepts of beauty and ugliness, good and evil, and no longer fall prey to conflicting tendencies driven by desire or repulsion. Why trouble yourself about all the ups and downs of daily life, like a child who delights in building a sand castle but cries when it collapses? To get what they want and be rid of what they dislike, look how people throw themselves into torments, like moths plunging into the flame of a lamp! Would it not be better to put down your heavy burden of dreamlike obsessions once and for all?”

“I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?”

“You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life”

“You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.”

“It’s just life. You can’t beat life.”

“I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.”

“It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”

“Life is difficult.”

“Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.”

“There is no doubt that the princess did become a queen---not only on the screen. One of the most loved, one of the most skillful, one of the most intelligent, one of the most sensitive, charming actresses---and friends, in my life---but also in the later stages of her life, the UNICEF ambassador to the children of the world. The generosity, sensitivity, the nobility of her service to the children of the world and the mothers of the world will never be forgotten.”

“Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn”

“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

“Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.”

“Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.”

“… memory can restore to life everything except smells, although nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”

“My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.”

“It is sweet to dance to violins
When Love and Life are fair:
To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes
Is delicate and rare:
But it is not sweet with nimble feet
To dance upon the air!”

“There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.”

“Life's too short to pretend and play games like that. I want to spend my time hanging out with people who make me feel good about myself. People who make me happy.”

“I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people”

“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.”

“Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.”

“How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or seen anybody die?”

“One thing we do know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.”

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. … Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”

“He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.”

“Fear is how you lose your life… a little bit at a time… What we give to fear, we take away from… faith.”

“If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.”

“How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull.”

“You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.”

“Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved”

“Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”

“Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.”

“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.”

“… in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.”

“To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.”

“My unhappiness protects me from life.”

“A life of short duration… could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.”

“Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”

“On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.”

“The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.”

“Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.”

“Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.”

“Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.”