Quotes about life

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“The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.”

“When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.

--from WHEN DEATH COMES”

“There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.”

“I just want to say to the kids out there watching: You can do anything you want in life. Unless Jay Leno wants to do it too.”

“I'll be all right in a minute, I'm just bewildered - by life…”

“One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.”

“Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown — even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.”

“~ I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found. I'm only here tonight because of you. You're the only reason I am… you're all my reasons.~”

“We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.”

“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”

“Love is energy of life.”

“life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one”

“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”

“Was that life? Well then, once more!”

“If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.”

“Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”

“There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.”

“Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.”

“A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.”

“It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”

“Yes, very sensible… People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.”

“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”

“Give me some more wine, because life is nothing.”

“It's your life-but only if you make it so.”

“Art is the proper task of life.”

“I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”

“Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to.”

“Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.”

“One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.”

“Forget Regret, or life is yours to miss”

“I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.”

“Move out or grow in any dimension and pain as well as joy will be your reward. A full life will be full of pain.”

“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”

“It’s strange,” Moominmamma thought. “Strange that people can be sad, and even angry because life is too easy. But that’s the way it is, I suppose. The only thing to do is to start life afresh.”

“A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.”

“I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.”

“Others see their possibility in the reality of you. Your message is your life lived.”

“I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living and that economy is a prime requisite of a sound financial structure, whether in government, business or personal affairs.

I believe that truth and justice are fundamental to an enduring social order.

I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man's word should be as good as his bond, that character—not wealth or power or position—is of supreme worth.

I believe that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind and that only in the purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of the human soul set free.

I believe in an all-wise and all-loving God, named by whatever name, and that the individual's highest fulfillment, greatest happiness and widest usefulness are to be found in living in harmony with His will.

I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world; that it alone can overcome hate; that right can and will triumph over might.”

“The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.”

“We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap and poison, the statesman with pen, the most of us with machines, votes, and dollars, but it all comes to the same thing: peace in our time. A measure of success in this is all well enough, and perhaps is a requisite to objective thinking, but too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run. Perhaps this is behind Thoreau’s dictum: In wildness is the salvation of the world. Perhaps this is the hidden meaning in the howl of the wolf, long known among mountains, but seldom perceived among men.”

“Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”

“The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.”

“Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.”

“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

“Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.”

“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.”

“You don't know what can happen tomorrow. Life is like a novel, isn't it? It's filled with suspense. You never know what's going to happen until you turn the page.”

“There are moments in life that you wish with all your heart you could take back. Like, just erase from existence. Like, if you could, you'd erase yourself right out of existence too, just to make that moment not exist.”

“Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.”

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”

“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.”

“Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.”

“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.”

“My only point, the only point that I'm making, is life has got to be allowed to continue even after theof life is--all--over….”

“Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.”

“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.”

“Life has more imagination than we do.”

“The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.”

“I've loved you for as long as I can remember, and I'm going to love you for the rest of my life.”

“I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.”

“If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.”

“If I want a long boring story with no point to it, I have my life.”

“I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.”

“Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.”

“I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.”

“As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support.”

“The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.”

“Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!”

“Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.”

“Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.”

“Experience is a question of instinct about life.”

“It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.”

“It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.”

“And the cost of a thing it will be remembered as the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.”

“There is only one success … to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

“It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.”

“I never considered disobeying an order or even a request from Daddy. I loved and admired him, and one of my preeminent goals in life was to earn his approbation. I learned to expect his criticisms, always constructive, but his accolades were rare. My”

“To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.”

“Avoid roasted cabbage, do not eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”

“Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.”

“It is easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is one who will smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.”

“The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.”

“Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.”

“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.”

“There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.”

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”

“Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.”

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”

“We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”

“The teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure to ourselves what that life would be if these teaching were removed.”

“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.”

“Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.”

“Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?”

“For it all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”

“We can only begin to live when we conceive life as
Tragedy.”

“One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.”

“Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.”

“Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”