Life Quotes

Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.

Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have.

We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we're going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young.

Fame is a heavy burden.

Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Live how we can, yet die we must.

The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.

The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

Life is a search after power.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

You are the sum total of your choices.

Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.

There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.

Your time on this earth is limited, don’t live someone else's life, live by your vision.

Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either.

Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last.

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.

And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring,And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar,And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fireGirdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. . . . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.

The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.

Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.

A well-fashioned day - with a beginning and an end, a purpose and a content, a color and a character, a feel and a texture - takes it place among the many and becomes a valuable memory and treasure. At midnight the winged messengers come and gather up all these pieces and take them off to wherever the mosaic is kept. And surely, on occasion, one messenger says to another, 'Wait 'til you see this one.'

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

I live in an atmosphere of music.

Remember this. Bear Bryant retired at age 69, and he died 28 days after he stopped coaching. If you don't have something, and a purpose in your life, you're gonna die.

If I understand Change, I shall make no great mistake in Life

I wish the first word I ever said was the word "quote", so right before I die I could say "unquote".

No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.

Sometimes I wonder what it will be like to look back on all this. Whether it will seem real.

From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation?

Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This 'outgrowing', as I formerly called it, on further experience was seen to consist in a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest arose on the person's horizon, and through this widening of view, the insoluble problem lost its urgency. It was not solved logically in its own terms, but faded out when confronted with a new and stronger life-tendency.

We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Who are you, Nature?I live in you;for fifty years I have been seeking you,and I have not found you yet.

Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us.

Love is simply creation's greatest joy.

The secret of life is in art.

I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will what he wants,’ has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in part, gives humour its due.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry,-determine to make a day of it.

If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.