Life Quotes

Sometimes in life you have to be your own best friend.

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man's frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?

Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.

How we shall earn our bread is a grave question; yet it is a sweet and inviting question. Let us not shirk it, as is usually done.It is the most important and practical question which is put to man. Let us not answer it hastily. Let us not be content to get our bread in some gross, careless, and hasty manner. Some men go a-hunting, some a-fishing, some a-gaming, some to war; but none have so pleasant a time as they who in earnest seek to earn their bread.

Preservation of life is the only true joy.

The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again

You may ask me for anything you like except time.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

Every morning when I wake up, now, I regard it as having another borrowed day.

Passion makes the old medicine new:Passion lops off the bough of weariness.Passion is the elixir that renews:how can there be wearinesswhen passion is present?Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue:seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!

Where do I go from here?

How can a man's life keep it's course If he will not let it flow, Those who flow as life flows know They need no other force: They feel no wear, they feel no tear, They need no mending, no repair.

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow-- Then draw it to the head and let it go!

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.

And one of my absolute favorite quotes of all-time, one that I've adopted as one of my greatest life mottos: Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."

What I know for sure is that it's only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow. That doesn't necessarily mean your process will necessarily lead you to wealth or fame. In fact, your dream may have nothing to do with tangible prosperity and everything to do with creating a life filled with joy, one with no regrets and a clear conscience. I've learned that wealth is a tool that gives you choices, but it can't compensate for a life not fully lived and it certainly can't create a sense of peace within you.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Success and happiness are not destinations, they are exciting, never-ending journeys.

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.

I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

Never assume that you're stuck with the way things are. Life changes, and so can you.

Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also are the organs required to effect them. ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

You are this universe experiencing itself, very briefly, as a human.

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

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.

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true

The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men; not one has been omitted; and each has answered them, according to his ability, by his words and his life.

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

Life [had] replaced logic.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

I've always been involved in music. Whether it be taking piano lessons or something, I always have.

She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.

Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know each other (though I met you once I think, on board a ship going to Africa), we can talk freely. The illusion is upon me that something adheres for a moment, has roundness, weight, depth, is completed. This, for the moment, seems to be my life. If it were possible, I would hand it you entire. I would break it off as one breaks off a bunch of grapes. I would say, "Take it. This is my life.

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.[Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]

Nature refuses to rest.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen arms to the light,--to see its perfect success; but most are content to behold it in the shape of many broad boards brought to market, and deem that its true success! But the pine is no more lumber than man is, and to be made into boards and houses is no more its true and highest use than the truest use of a man is to be cut down and made into manure.

All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.