Life Quotes
Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
Browning, Robert
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
Butler, Samuel
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. -- Samuel Butler
Campbell, Joseph
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Campbell, Joseph
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Campbell, Joseph
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Campbell, Joseph
Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
Carlyle, Thomas
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. -- Thomas Carlyle
Churchill, Winston
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Cicero
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy. -- Cicero
Coleridge, Samuel T.
Life is but thought. -- Samuel T. Coleridge
Colton, Charles C.
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good. -- Charles Caleb Colton
de Montaigne, Michel
My trade and art is to live. -- Michel De Montaigne
France, Anatole
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal. -- Anatole France
Frost, Robert
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
Hazlitt, William
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. -- William Hazlitt
Howe, Edgar Watson
So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living. -- Edgar Watson Howe
Kabbalah
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow. -- Kabbalah
Kafka, Franz
We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life.
Khan, Pir Vilayat Inayat
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
Lang, Andrew
Life's more amusing than we thought. -- Andrew Lang
Lennon, John
Life is what happens while you are making other plans.
Lincoln, Abraham
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mencken, H.L.
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.
Millay, Edna Saint Vincent
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light! -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Mizner, Wilson
Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest. -- Wilson Mizner
Nagarjuna
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, Although they come and go by day, Are like the smith's bellows: They take breath but are not alive. -- Nagarjuna
Nehru, Jawaharial
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. -- Jawaharial Nehru
Paracelsus
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. -- Paracelsus
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. -- Pythagoras
Rieff, Philip
We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them. -- Philip Rieff
Robinson, Edwin A.
Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go. -- Edwin Arlington Robinson
Rogers, Will
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. -- Will Rogers
Rubinstein, Arthur
I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings--iT's All A Miracle. -- Arthur Rubinstein
Sarte, Jean-Paul
One always dies too soon—or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than you life.
Seneca
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. -- Seneca
Seneca
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. -- Seneca
Seneca
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
Sivananda
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
Sivananda
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realise the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself. -- Sivananda
Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates
Swain, Charles
Never rail at the world, it is just as we make it,- We see not the flower if we sow not the seed; And as for ill-luck, why, it's just as we take it,- The heart that's in earnest no bars can impede.
Teasdale, Sara
Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings And children's faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup. -- Sara Teasdale
Thurber, James
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. -- James Thurber
Tzu-ch'eng, Hung
Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness. -- Hung Tzu-ch'eng
Upanishads
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, andwhat beyond is in Eternity.
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
Life is the childhood of our immortality. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Wilde, Oscar
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
Winfrey, Oprah
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Winfrey, Oprah
Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings.