Life Quotes

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.

Chris Evert

There must be more to life than having everything.

Maurice Sendak

I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week... to remind me how fragile life is.

Andy Warhol

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Bertrand Russell

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Marcus Aurelius

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.

Bette Davis

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

Quoted by Benjamin Franklin, Pearls of Wisdom, by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.

Henry James

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

Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.

Percy B. Shelley

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.

Reinhold Niebuhr, Rockford (IL) Register Star newspape

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.

Anais Nin

Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Richard Bach

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies.

Adrienne E. Gusoff

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Karen Kaiser Clark

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Robert Darwin

It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Benjamin Johnson

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

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

John Patrick

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

Albert Camus, The Strange

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Speech to the graduating class at Harvard (1978)

Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.

Mavette Sadile

It? s never too late?? in fiction or in life?? to revise.

Nancy Thaye

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Andre Malraux

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

Julia T. Alvarez

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Alice Walke

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

James Truslow Adams

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

Rene Angelil

When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.

Haniel Long

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.

Kelle

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

Bill Vaughan

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952