Quotes by Subject: Life
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Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. | * | ||
If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little bit more. | * | ||
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. | |||
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. | |||
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. | |||
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. | |||
Our lives are frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. | |||
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. | |||
My father used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. | |||
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it. | |||
We are always getting ready to live but never living. | |||
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. | |||
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. | |||
Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life. | |||
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. | |||
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. | |||
I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor? | |||
Life is like a sewer -- what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. | |||
I'm gonna live forever, or die trying. | |||
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. | |||
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. | |||
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. | |||
Why wait? Life is not a dress rehearsal. Quit practicing what you're going to do, and just do it.; In one bold stroke you can transform today. | |||
Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. | |||
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. | |||
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. | |||
The best things in life aren't things. | |||
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear. | |||
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. | |||
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. | |||
This is the true joy in life: being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, and being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. | |||
There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down -- until,until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living. | |||
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference. | |||
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success. | * | ||
The nature of life is to make a virtue of the inevitable. | * | ||
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. | * | ||
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. | |||
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. | |||
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. | |||
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. | |||
Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm. | |||
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of habit. | |||
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. | * | ||
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. | |||
Life is love and work. | |||
He that lives upon hope will die fasting. | |||
In life, to be honest, I've failed as much as I've succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life, and I wish you my kind of success. (screenplay, Jerry Maguie, 1996) | |||
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. | |||
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. | |||
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. | |||
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to. | |||
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. | * | ||
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. | |||
Life is a long lesson in humility. | |||
After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life. | |||
We are such stuff as dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. (The Tempest) | |||
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, Good and ill together. (All's Well That Ends Well) | |||
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. | |||
My life is one long obstacle course, with me being the cheif obstacle. | |||
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. | * | ||
It's not over till it's over. | |||
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. | |||
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. | |||
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act and, in acting, to live. | |||
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. | |||
The secret to life is to fall seven times and get up eight times. | |||
Hope for the best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed. | |||
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it. | |||
Nothing very good or very bad last very long. | |||
All the world?s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. | |||
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannotget more time. | |||
To fill the hour, that is true happiness. | |||
Life is a great bundle of little things. | |||
Life is a long lesson in humility. | |||
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. | |||
When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody. | |||
It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much. | |||
In the great game of human life one begins by being a dupe and ends by being a rouge. | |||
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. | |||
Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived. | |||
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television. | * | ||
Life is too important to be taken seriously. | |||
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. | |||
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. | |||
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. | |||
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. | |||
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid. | * | ||
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man. | |||
Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousend are bastards. | |||
There must be more to life than having everything. | |||
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die. | |||
Maybe this world is another planet's hell. | |||
Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. | |||
Everybody has a plan until they get hit in the mouth. | |||
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. | |||
Live to the point of tears. | |||
Birth and copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks. | |||
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. | * | ||
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth, only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. | |||
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. | |||
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . .The other eight are unimportant. | |||
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. | |||
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. | * | ||
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old. | |||
There are more fools in the world than there are people. | |||
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are -that is the fact. | |||
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. | |||
I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? | * | ||
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. | * | ||
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. | |||
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. | |||
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse. | |||
It is not length of life, but depth of life. | |||
If I ever seem to take you for granted, forgive me. | * | ||
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. | |||
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. | * | ||
I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early. | * | ||
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. | |||
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. | |||
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. | |||
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. | |||
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. | * | ||
The secret of life is in art. | * | ||
Is it possible that a 70-year-old black man hates the whites? Let me enlighten you. You cannot find a 70-year-old black man who does not hate the whites. | |||
Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants. | * | ||
It's just a case of too soon old and too late smart. | |||
Recognize that the golden age is right now. We're not waiting for it to arrive. We're creating it. | |||
Dinner is where people become human. | |||
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