We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Life Quotes from Travis Barker, Mark Twain, Marilu Henner, Viggo Mortensen, Joseph Campbell. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.
I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.’
Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.
Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.
The less routine the more life.
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
Life is hard enough. Life is always going to be hard, so you need to push for what you want.
Life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest.
Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.
Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.
My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I’ve always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.
Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
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.
You got one life to live. So I’m living it the way I want to live it.
The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way. If you’re not, you’ll find an excuse.
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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.
We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.
Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
Life is a work in progress.
Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
I bear a charmed life.
We pass through this world but once.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Life is never easy for those who dream.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person.
Don’t Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.
I’ve only been in one fight in my whole life… in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I’m a maniac.
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Our life is made by the death of others.
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
I am happy every day, because life is moving in a very positive way.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
I have, like, a playlist with all my favourite songs on it. Sadie’s Playlist is the soundtrack of my life. ‘Wonderwall’ by Oasis, ‘Under The Bridge’ by Red Hot Chili Peppers, TLC, ‘Waterfalls’ – I love the ’90s.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
I just really enjoy life.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
There is no love of life without despair of life.
Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.
I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.
Never give up. There are always tough times, regardless of what you do in anything in life. Be able to push through those times and maintain your ultimate goal.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
I just enjoy life in a way where I like being my own person.
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.
The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.
Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.
I look back on my life like a good day’s work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.
Life is God’s novel. Let him write it.
You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.
A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
There’s only two people in your life you should lie to… the police and your girlfriend.
Life is a DNA software system.
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
What you put into life is what you get out of it.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
I had no blood relatives till I made some.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
I’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have.
It’s not the men in my life that count, it’s the life in my men.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
I have said that propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation have always been part of political warfare. Social media and other new platforms have given it a new life and reach through which the fake news phenomenon can reach everywhere.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
My life is my message.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
While there’s life, there’s hope.
I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.
The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Life is tough, but it’s tougher if you’re stupid.
Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
The difficulty in life is the choice.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
Life isn’t black and white. It’s a million gray areas, don’t you find?
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
Life is full of challenges, but I always have the Three Ps: Passion, patience and persistence. And the fourth one is pizza.
I am lucky to do what I do and enjoy life.
It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Life is fragile. We’re not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you’ve got.
Life is too short to work so hard.
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
In life, you have got to make the best of every situation; you have to keep going.
You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.
Attitude determines the altitude of life.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things.
I am I plus my circumstances.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Life should be great rather than long.
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
What we play is life.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
It’s really not about what you have. It’s about how you’re able to enjoy life in general.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. ‘Black Rain’ was very much about choices. The message – we are what we chose to be.
We live in the world when we love it.
Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
Life loves the liver of it.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Relax! Life is beautiful!
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Our ability to handle life’s challenges is a measure of our strength of character.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
All I really need to know… I learned in kindergarten.
Life is too short to be scared and not take risks. I’d rather be the person that’s like, ‘I messed up,’ than, ‘I wish I did that.’
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
Life is a gift, given in trust – like a child.
Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.
The only rule is don’t be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.
Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.
To live is to think.
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life.
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
There is no wealth but life.
Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death – and everything else is open to discussion.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Once your mind and body is healthy, it creates a freedom that helps you enjoy life.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway.
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Everyone has a right to their own opinion about me, and that’s fine. I’m just going to keep being myself and living my life. That’s all I can do.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery – there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
I try to work and enjoy life, and that’s about all.
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.
Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.
Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
I’m taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.
All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
Positivity, confidence, and persistence are key in life, so never give up on yourself.
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
See, life is a journey and every chapter is very interesting.
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.
All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Everything in life… has to have balance.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
I’m a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone’s life.
You don’t have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life’s about change.
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
Your life is your canvas, and you are the masterpiece. There are a million ways to be kind, amazing, fabulous, creative, bold, and interesting.
Life moves so fast. You gotta document the good times, man.
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.
Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Love is energy of life.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.
Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
You get out of life what you put into it. I think you need a bit of luck but you also make a bit of luck. I think that if you’re a pretty decent person you’ll get back what you put in.
All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
If you aren’t humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.
The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘try to be a little kinder.’
My life is a struggle.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns.
To know nothing is the happiest life.
We cannot put off living until we are ready.
Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
You can really only enjoy life when you’re extremely busy.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Our entire life – consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
In this world, with thy earthly life, thou art under heaven, stars, and elements, also under hell and devils; all ruleth in thee, and over thee.
The way to know life is to love many things.
Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
To be free is to have achieved your life.
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
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.
My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
There’s theater in life, obviously, and there’s life in theater.
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Live the life you’ve dreamed.
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
I like people that enjoy life, ’cause I do the same.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
It’s never too late – in fiction or in life – to revise.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Life ain’t always beautiful, but it’s a beautiful ride.
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
So if you stay ready, you ain’t gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.
I realize that humor isn’t for everyone. It’s only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
Always keep your smile. That’s how I explain my long life.
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
I grind and I graft, but I will make sure that I get that time off here and there to unwind and relax and have a life.
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
I just want to live each moment to the fullest. And enjoy life.
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
Nothing is more precious than life… especially the life of your child.
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’
Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
You can’t get anywhere in life without taking risks.
Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and give your best. Whether you want to be a chef, doctor, actor, or a mother, be passionate to get the best result.
The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.
You never know where life is going to take you. So everything I do, I just take it one day at a time, and it always leads you to the right place.
Don’t die old, die empty. That’s the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard.
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being. It shifts your perspective from lack to abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your life, which in turn pulls more goodness into your reality.
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Water is life, and clean water means health.
Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it’s a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.
Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.
Don’t go through life, grow through life.
I think our life is a journey, and we make mistakes, and it’s how we learn from those mistakes and rebound from those mistakes that sets us on the path that we’re meant to be on.
We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Without rain, there is no life.
At its best, life is completely unpredictable.
You change your life by changing your heart.
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.
I decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I could.
Life is wasted on the living.
No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.
There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.
Life is too short to do the things you don’t love doing.
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.
May you live all the days of your life.
This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can’t see how deep it is.
Man’s love is of man’s life a part; it is a woman’s whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.
Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
I need to celebrate life because I’m in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and happy with what I do for a living, and sometimes I just focus and overwhelm myself so much with the fights and getting better, that I just need to slow it down and enjoy life and enjoy training.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
You will always have ups and downs in your life and your career, but just stay positive and go for it.
I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.
I am overwhelmed with gratitude, and my heart is full. ‘American Sniper’ has broken records, which follows such an honest path of Chris’s life.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.
It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life… just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
Time is long but life is short.
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Into each life some rain must fall.
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Life’s so unpredictable. You never know when the next high or low will strike you. The trick is just to flow with the tide.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.
It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
I’ve been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.
I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing – it can’t fly.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
My view of life is, ‘If you’re going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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.
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.
To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
No matter what you achieve, what you want to aspire to be, or how famous and powerful you become, the most important thing is whether you are excited about each and every moment of your life because of your work and people around you.
Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You’re not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you’re at peace with yourself. Learning life’s lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.
Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.
I am blessed with a funny gene that makes me enjoy life.
It’s never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make peace with it and move on.
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Life is all about having a good time.
I am an artist… I am here to live out loud.
I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
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. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There’s a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
