Life Quotes
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First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.
Elizabeth Lesser
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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.
Georges Carpentier
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You can't choose what you're famous for in life.
Dave Kellett
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When your private life has been dragged into public space, you tend to attain a zen-like composure.
Kalki Koechlin
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People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They’re stuck on that person I used to be. They can’t see that old life as just a moment in time that I’ve moved on from. It was a horrible life.
Eric Jerome Dickey
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Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.
William Lyon Phelps
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It would be nice if I was remembered at all. I don't really care about being remembered. I just want to enjoy my life today and do my best while I'm here. I'm not that ambitious, other than to have a good life now.
Sean Lennon
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Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.
Nick Hornby
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I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.
Joshua Waitzkin
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Life has been given us to enjoy.
Nikolai Leskov
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If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it not then follow that life could be, even ought to be, lived as a story, that what one has to do in life is to make the story come true?
Hannah Arendt
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So often we miss life’s beauty because we are preoccupied by its flaws.
Ann Spangler
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The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out.
Norman Sherry
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.
Nadine Gordimer
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And when Bëor lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Of course, I believe in love. Its beautiful when it's right. My love life is like my music.
Michael Jackson
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I think it's so trite to say you have lead characters. It's like someone saying I'm the lead in my life.
Lena Waithe
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The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off.
Steve Jobs
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Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.
Seneca the Younger
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I absolutely get thrills from taking on these big guys and recognizing how, behind all their power, they are so empty. I just keep going at it. Each of these balloons does deflate. Ive seen a lot of balloons get deflated in my life.
Vandana Shiva
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Life is the one thing you cannot get out of alive.
Casey Wilson
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I kind of look at this as a bookmark in my life, and once it’s over, I’m excited for what I can accomplish as both a soccer player and a runner.
Carrie Tollefson
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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
Tom Lehrer