Life Quotes

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Good
- Real
- Death
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Jean de la Bruyere
- Life
- Grief

For me, one of the things art has to examine is how to live your life, and unless it's doing that, it doesn't work for me.

Ben Miller
- Life
- Work
- Examine
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Bertrand Russell
- Good
- Knowledge
- Inspired
I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.

Salma Hayek
- Time
- Believe
- Age
There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

Andy Summers The Police
- College
- Rest
- Period
What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

S. Jay Olshansky
- Work
- Attention
- Focus
What I find is that it's the middle-aged authors who have lived a life who have the most important, interesting voices. They just need someone to give them the key to unlock the door.

Fiona McIntosh