Quotes about life

Woody Allen -

I'm not afraid of death I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Søren Kierkegaard -

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

John Green - Will Grayson

Some people have lives some people have music.

Julian Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

Lao Tzu -

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Coco Chanel -

You live but once you might as well be amusing.

Wayne W. Dyer -

How people treat you is their karma how you react is yours.

Roy T. Bennett - The Light in the Heart

It’s your life you don’t need someone’s permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart.

Roy T. Bennett - The Light in the Heart

Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see it is what gives life its deepest significance.

Roy T. Bennett -

Be thankful for everything that happens in your life it’s all an experience.

Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching

A man with outward courage dares to die a man with inner courage dares to live.

Roy T. Bennett - The Light in the Heart

Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness they don’t need the approval of others.

Helen Keller -

Alone we can do so little together we can do so much

Søren Kierkegaard - Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

I see it all perfectly there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.

Friedrich Nietzsche -

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Steve Maraboli - and Being Free

Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!

Roy T. Bennett -

Some things cannot be taught they must be experienced. You never learn the most valuable lessons in life until you go through your own journey.

Joseph Stalin -

A single death is a tragedy a million deaths is a statistic.

Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

Roy T. Bennett -

Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others.

Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably the man who respects it has earned it.

William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels only when the clock stops does time come to life.

Roy T. Bennett - The Light in the Heart

Push your boundaries beyond the ordinary be that “extra” in “extraordinary.

Aldous Huxley - Crome Yellow

All that happens means something nothing you do is ever insignificant.

John Keats - The Complete Poems

Life is but a dayA fragile dew-drop on its perilous wayFrom a tree’s summit.

Voltaire -

We never live we are always in the expectation of living.

Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones

Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun it cannot be contained.

Roy T. Bennett - The Light in the Heart

Be careful the stories you're telling yourself about your current circumstances a head full of negative thoughts has no space for positive ones.

Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Seneca - On the Shortness of Life

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

William Arthur Ward -

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.

Roy T. Bennett -

Life is short. Focus on what really matters most you should change your priorities over time.

Roy T. Bennett -

Create your own miracles do what you think you cannot do.

Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

A lot of the conflict you have in your life exists simply because you're not living in alignment you're not be being true to yourself.

Kahlil Gibran -

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

Cassandra Clare - City of Glass

You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable even the bad ones

Emily Dickinson -

Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Lao Tzu -

The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself it gives life to others as it transforms.

Nicole Richie -

You just have to go after what you want and if it doesn't want you back then so be it it doesn't deserve you anyways.

Iimani David -

Love changes things hope allows us to endure until the change arrives.

Gautama Buddha -

The Way is not in the sky the Way is in the heart.

John Newton -

I am still in the land of the dying I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)

Criss Jami - Venus in Arms

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.

Kahlil Gibran - Sand and Foam

Desire is half of life indifference is half of death.

Brian Tracy -

Excellence/Perfection is not a destination it is a continuous journey that never ends.

Omar Khayyám -

This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and griefits a shame that not one of our problemswas ever solved.We departwith a thousand regretsin our hearts.

Omar Khayyám - Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! Life fliesOne thing is certain and the rest is Lies -The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

Lang Leav -

Letting him goThere is a particular kind of suffering to be experienced when you love something greater than yourself. A tender sacrifice. Like the pained silence felt in the lost song of a mermaid or the bent and broken feet of a dancing ballerina. It is in every considered step I am taking in the opposite direction of you.

Radiohead -

Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.

Brian Tracy -

Imagine no limitations decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible.

Confucius -

No lake so still but it has its wave.No circle so perfect but that it has its blur.I would change things for you if I could As I can't you must take them as they are.

Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Sometimes problems don’t require a solution to solve them instead they require maturity to outgrow them.

Steve Maraboli - and Being Free

Happiness is not the absence of problems it's the ability to deal with them.

Charles Bukowski - You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

when we were kidslaying around the lawnon ourbellieswe often talkedabouthowwe'd like todieandwe allagreed on thesamethingwe'd alllike to diefucking(althoughnone of ushaddone anyfucking)and nowthatwe are hardlykidsany longerwe think moreabouthownot todieandalthoughwe'rereadymost ofuswouldprefer todo italoneunder thesheetsnowthatmost ofushave fuckedour livesaway.

Dirk Wittenborn - Fierce People

We are the sum of all people we have ever met you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.

Jon Meacham -

A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.

Amy Grant -

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

Daniel Tammet -

Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorbing those experiences and somehow making intuitive responses in future situations that resemble them in some way.

Bjorn Lomborg -

When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.

Brit Marling -

So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.

Frances Conroy -

It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.

Norodom Sihamoni -

In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.

Steve Maraboli -

You are the ocean everything else is just waves and wind.

Aniruddha Sastikar -

Never mind those failures till yesterday. Each new day is a sequel of a wonderful life gifted with hopes to succeed.

Latika Teotia -

There are people whose suffering makes them take their mind off other things in life so focused are they on their misery that they fail to notice their simple blessings. My prayer for such people is May they not ignore the happiness that still exists. May they see the rainbow at the end of the road. May they find strength to carry on and never give up. May they never lose hope.

F.K. Preston -

There are no humans left. I should not be alone. I can’t help but wonder that. There were so many of us living. But time started growing young four years ago. It isn’t four years anymore. It’s a number I wouldn’t even be able to say. It feels like four years. It’s trapped in my tender memory as four years. It’s been an age. Multiple ages. It’s been lifetimes every single lifetime that used to exist. I remember my mother screaming. I recall the doctors naming me as nurses wiped away her blood and

Robert Vanleeuwen -

We carry on not by letting go of the worries that burden us but by staying true to our hearts & the meaning that surrounds us.

Kamal Khanzada -

Every great dream begins with a perspective change the world with the power and strength within you

Mayank S. Sengar - Life and The Grey Notes

Hope is an investment that never fails the investor don’t read the Red Herring prospectus before investing in hope.

Gary L. Francione -

We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important point in common: both institutions treat sentient beings exclusively as resources of others. That cannot be justified with respect to humans it cannot be justified with respect to nonhumans—however “humanely” we treat them.

Brian Tracy -

Develop the winning edge small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.

Brian Tracy -

Success equals goals all else is commentary.

Michel de Montaigne -

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful the best occupations are the least forced.

Hisham Fawzi -

We make the money money never make us

Janvier Chouteu-Chando - Flash of the Sun

It is not something we often find out but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Living beings have this in common the breath of life.

Sappho - Stung With Love: Poems and Fragments

Wealth without real worthinessIs no good for the neighbourhoodBut their proper mixtureIs the summit of beatitude.

Roy T. Bennett -

Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. Discipline your mind to think positively to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.

Roy T. Bennett -

Be thankful for the efforts of people who worked hard to get you where you are you should not take it for granted and treat them with indifference.

Roy T. Bennett -

Those who win never quit those who quit never win.

Anthony T.Hincks -

When you're lost in space it's time to buy some new furniture!

Anthony T. Hincks -

It's when you smell the breeze taste the salt and feel the waves beneath your feet that you truly know that you are alive.

Sherrilyn Kenyon -

That wasn't love that was stupidity.

Steve Maraboli -

Never run from the truth. It is always there it never changes – save your energy.

George Gordon Byron -

For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.

Jeremy Aldana -

A humble man will always receive the best that others have to offer for he recognizes the truth

Jodi Picoult - Handle with Care

I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

Toba Beta - My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

The truth is in the heartout there is true darkness.

Steve Maraboli -

Stop trying to explain yourself. People only understand things from their level of perception within the parameters of their agreement with reality. Save your energy.

Voltaire -

God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

God is the composer you are the song.

Sabah Carrim - Humeirah

An ugly face needs make-up that's why Man needs religion.

Shannon L. Alder -

Love doesn't make the world go 'round love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Solomon Northup - Twelve Years a Slave

Life is dear to every living thing the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.

Tess Gerritsen - The Sinner

The dead do not hurt you only the living do.

Gautama Buddha -

Be where you are otherwise you will miss your life.

Anne Lamott - Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

We all know we're going to die what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.