Life Quotes

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

David Russell

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Okakura Kakuzo

I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Seneca

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Michael Johnson

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.

Erik H. Erikson

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Swami Sivanada

This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

Thomas Mann

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Olive Schreine

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.

Iris Murdoch

Life is a promise fulfill it.

Mother Theresa

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

Steven Weinberg

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Carl Jung, "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

Margaret Mead

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau

There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Cherokee Prove

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

William Orville Douglas

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein, "Job", 1984

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

Danny Kaye

We learn not in the school, but in life.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

From what we get, we can make a living what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Michael Landon

All my pupils are the crme de la crme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

Muriel Spark

Life is wasted on the living.

Douglas Adams

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.

Oscar Wilde

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, August 2004

All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and there is no cause to value one above the other.

H. P. Lovecraft

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

I could be content that we might procreate, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition it is the most foolish act a wise man commits in all his life.

Sir Thomas Browne

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Robert Byrne

What profits a man if he keeps his eternal soul when he could have lived life to the full and been forgiven at the end of it all anyway?

David Merritt, a. k. a. THE RED SHARK

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

G. K. Chesterton

Life is too serious to be taken seriously.

Mike Leonard

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Anthony Trollope