Life Quotes
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look at the stars.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasion, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
O, with what freshness,
what solemnity and beauty,
is each new day born;
as if to say to insensate man,
'Behold!
thou hast one more chance!
Strive for immortal glory!'
Life is a state of discipline. We are required to go through the fire of suffering.
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn – exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.
Life is what happens to you
While you're busy making other plans.
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
A life without love is like a year without summer.
All the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
