Life Quotes
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There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.
Lois Lowry
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
William Ellery Channing
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When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.
Elin Hilderbrand
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Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.
John Lennon The Beatles
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Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.
Soren Kierkegaard
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When you begin to create the life of your dreams - or maybe better stated, when you begin to live the life that God dreams for you - you take responsibility to prepare for the future.
Erwin McManus
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Real democracy is food on the table, the ability to plan your life, the ability to walk on the street without getting mugged.
Jair Bolsonaro
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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
Philip James Bailey
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The fact speak for themselves.
Demosthenes
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There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
Tim Ferriss
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Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed.... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage.
D. H. Lawrence
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It is clear that friendship is by and large crucial to human life. And I believe, in contrast with most of the philosophical tradition deriving from Aristotle, that it is not limited to a very few perfect individuals.
Alexander Nehamas
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I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
Eugenio Montale
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A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The greatest secret to living a happy, fulfilled life is the realization that everything is created in our minds before it manifests itself in the outer world. We must believe it before we can see it.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.
Charlie Kaufman
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Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series 'on purpose' ?
Bill Crawford
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A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun.
Emily Dickinson
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Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Dear God, what is my purpose of life? What should I do to find it? Once I found it, will I become stronger? ....Oh no, my mind is blank. a strange sound kept ringing in my head. What sound is that...? Ah, I know. It's... The sound of emptiness.
Chica Umino
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So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
William Shakespeare
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One doesn’t just chuck away the story of one’s life, however much one wishes it had read differently.
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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A word does not say anything And at the same time it hides everything Just as the wind that hides the water Like the flowers that mud hides. A glance does not say anything And at the same time it says everything Like rain on your face Or an old treasure map A truth does not say anything And at the same time it hides everything Like a bonfire that does not go out Like a stone that is born dust. If one day you need me, I will be nothing And at the same time I will be everything Because in your eyes are my wings And the shore where I drown.
Carlos Varela
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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
William Hazlitt