Life Quotes
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The greatest failure in life is the failure to participate in life.
Adam Khoo
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Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
Oscar Wilde
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By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him.
Allan Kaprow
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When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children.
Ann Hood
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Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.
Michael Emerson
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I think there are bound to be obstacles in any path to success. I mean, I'm Jewish, and there's nothing I can do about that. Instead of sitting around and feeling sorry for myself, I got over it and did something with my life.
Zach Braff
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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
bell hooks
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When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!
Brooke Burke
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I feel like my whole life, I've had to prove myself to so many people because I'm young and because I'm a female; it's just constant. I'm always surprising people.
Alessia Cara
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To me, in life, if you have a sense of humor about it, that's how you deal with anything.
Ralph Macchio
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If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.
Amanda Beard
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I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
Vita Sackville-West
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English is the only interesting thing that's left in my life.
Joseph Brodsky
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As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants. Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.
Vaclav Klaus
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Boredom is the deadliest poison.
William Francis Buckley
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Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.
Dalai Lama
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I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.
John Hawkes
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And as husbands and fathers and brothers, we have to step up - because every girl’s life matters. Every daughter deserves the same chance as our sons. Every woman should be able to go about her day - to walk the streets or ride the bus - and be safe, and be treated with respect and dignity. She deserves that.
Barack Obama
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So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
William Hazlitt
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Know that whatever is happening in your life right now, it's there for a reason. Just accept the things the way they are. Just relax and let go of all the mental constructs that your mind is creating. Acceptance leads to wholesome right action.
Brandon Bays
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Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won't dislike you.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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...for her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore...
Edgar Allan Poe