Quotes about life

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“Life is like a bowl of spaghetti.
Every once in a while, you get a meatball.”

“Lord Illingworth: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.
Mrs. Allonby: It ends with Revelations.”

“How small a thought it takes to fill a life.”

“Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say”

“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP”

“The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.”

“The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.”

“Everyone must work to live, but the purpose of life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Only then have we ourselves become true human beings.”

“Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.”

“The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.”

“Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.”

“There's only us, there's only this / Forget regret, or life is yours to miss / No other road, no other way / No day but today!”

“No matter how much you hate or how much you suffer, you can't bring the dead back to life”

“Always live your life with your biography in mind.”

“It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.”

“The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.”

“Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.”

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”

“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.”

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”

“Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait."
"I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.”

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.”

“I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again…”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around.”

“Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.”

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”

“A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.”

“The visions you glorify in your mind,
The ideals you enthrone in your heart..
This you will build your life by…
This you will become.”

“To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.”

“There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the rest of it being afraid of everything.”

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”

“Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.”

“Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite.”

“The overman… Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.”

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”

“Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.”

“For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.”

“I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.”

“One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.”

“You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.”

“I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

“Sometimes I felt as if there were no tomorrows, that everything, my whole life, was crammed into one long day. A continuous stretch of meaningless time. Sometimes I even wished there was no tomorrow, if this was all I had to look forward to.”

“I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable.”

“To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.”

“Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.”

“It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that what children do in real life is snarl and take drugs.”

“You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.”

“And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.”

“Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation”

“Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”

“Welcome the view that the things which you think are wrecking your life - like your thoughts and emotions, or illness and death - are actually gifts for your transformation… Whether life presents us with a pleasant sound or an unpleasant sound, a pleasant smell or an unpleasant smell, a pleasant thought or an unpleasant thought, it's sheer delight because instead of identifying with the experience, we simply touch it and let it go.”

“Life is hard by the yard, son. But you don't have to do it by the yard. By the inch it's a cinch. And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.”

“I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.”

“Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.”

“Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.”

“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”

“Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?”

“Life is but a series of misunderstandings.”

“The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.”

“She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life.”

“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”

“Total absence of humor renders life impossible.”

“Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.”

“The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.”

“If you didn't do anything that wasn't good for you it would be a very dull life. What are you gonna do? Everything that is pleasant in life is dangerous. Have you noticed that? I'd like to find the bastard that thought that one up.”

“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

“The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live — moreover, the only one.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”

“Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.”

“Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

“what she loved: life, London, this moment of June.”

“Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.”

“When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.”

“How do you regret one of the best nights of your entire life? You don't. You remember every word, every look. Even when it hurts, you still remember.”

“I believe in reincarnation,” [Bjorn] said.
I KNOW.
“I tried to live a good life. Does that help?”
THAT’S NOT UP TO ME. Death coughed. OF COURSE… SINCE YOU BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION… YOU’LL BE BJORN AGAIN.”

“Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.”

“One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.”

“Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.”

“If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.”

“We have two lives, Roy, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.”

“Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.”

“I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.”

“… no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away… The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.”

“This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.”

“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”

“The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.”

“Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.”

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

“My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.”

“To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.”

“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals… They are not our brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life…”

“people who have failed in their lives, they are suffering their failure. People who have succeeded in their life, they are suffering their success.”

“All through your life your soul takes care of you… your soul is alive and awakened, gathering, sheltering and guiding your ways and days in the world. In effect, your soul is your secret shelter.”

“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories the next.”

“Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.”

“How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life.

[Written to his wife, Mileva]”

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”