Life Quotes

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Rachel Carson

Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.

Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

Bill Watterson, cartoonist

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.

Alexander A. Bogomoletz

Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.

Baltasar Gracian

This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Maitri Upanishads

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932

I 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

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.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Don't think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have.

Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, comments from his mother shortly before her suicide

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

Ursula K. LeGuin

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

Alice Kahn

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.

Henry L. Stimson

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Oscar Wilde

The goal of all life is death.

Sigmund Freud

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

George Santayana

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

Henry James

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

James Truslow Adams

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

Whittaker Chambers

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Amelia Earhart

I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.

Nathan Hale

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Muhammad Ali

Too much sanity may be madness - And the maddest of all - To see life as it is, and not as it ought to be.

Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

Clare Booth Luce

The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovering that makes life worth the effort.

Vijay Krishna

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Traditional Indian Saying

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Henri Frdric Amiel

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Marie Curie

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

William Faulkne

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

Eugene Delacroix

No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Pope John Paul II

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde