The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
24 more quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
13 more sayings from Sydney J. Harris
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
23 quotes from T. S. Eliot
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
26 more quotes from Theodor Adorno
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
2 other quotes from Grandma Moses
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
2 other sayings from Florence Scovel Shinn
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
21 quotes from Leo Tolstoy
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
3 sayings from Karen Horney
I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
2 views from Grandma Moses
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
2 sayings from Elizabeth Kenny
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
4 quotes from Truman Capote
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
6 more sayings from O. Henry
Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
3 views from Karen Horney
Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
4 quotes from Jim Henson
Art is the proper task of life.
103 other wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
29 other quotes from Pablo Picasso
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
36 views from Theodore Roosevelt
Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.
9 more wisdom & wit from John Dewey
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
36 other quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
100 more quotes from Oscar Wilde
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
103 views from Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not regret one moment of my life.
6 other quotes from Lillie Langtry
I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.
5 more views from Michael Landon
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
30 quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works.
100 other views from Oscar Wilde
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
30 other quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
30 other thoughts from Eleanor Roosevelt
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
100 sayings from Oscar Wilde
In married life three is company and two none.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
100 sayings from Oscar Wilde
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
103 views from Friedrich Nietzsche
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
28 more views from Napoleon Hill
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
100 other views from Oscar Wilde
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
103 more views from Friedrich Nietzsche
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
100 other quotes from Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
100 other sayings from Oscar Wilde
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
100 wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
17 more views from John Lennon
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
30 more wisdom & wit from Eleanor Roosevelt
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
29 more wisdom & wit from Groucho Marx
My life is my message.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
36 other quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
36 views from Theodore Roosevelt
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
100 thoughts from Oscar Wilde
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
30 thoughts from Eleanor Roosevelt
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
100 other quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
103 more thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche
The lie is a condition of life.
103 more quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
29 quotes from Pablo Picasso
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
29 more quotes from Groucho Marx
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
100 views from Oscar Wilde
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
100 more quotes from Oscar Wilde
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
100 more quotes from Oscar Wilde
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
33 other sayings from Dwight D. Eisenhower
To know nothing is the happiest life.
15 other quotes from Desiderius Erasmus
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
13 views from e. e. cummings
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
What you get is a living, what you give is a life.
2 views from Lillian Gish
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.
100 more quotes from Oscar Wilde
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
30 quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
Where there is love there is life.
100 sayings from Mahatma Gandhi
Without music, life would be a mistake.
103 sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
36 views from Theodore Roosevelt
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
29 more views from Pablo Picasso
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
36 more quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
98 views from Mark Twain
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
11 other views from Bruce Lee
The less routine the more life.
13 quotes from Amos Bronson Alcott
The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
22 sayings from Jimi Hendrix
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
39 more quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
12 quotes from William Cowper
We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
57 thoughts from Will Rogers
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
52 more wisdom & wit from Albert Camus
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
74 quotes from Winston Churchill
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
98 other quotes from Mark Twain
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
52 wisdom & wit from Albert Camus
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
74 quotes from Winston Churchill
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
57 quotes from Will Rogers
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
22 wisdom & wit from Jimi Hendrix
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
21 other quotes from Dale Carnegie
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
78 other quotes from Voltaire
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
32 views from Martin Luther
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
12 quotes from James Allen
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
39 thoughts from Robert Louis Stevenson
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
52 wisdom & wit from Albert Camus
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
52 quotes from Albert Camus
Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
57 sayings from Will Rogers
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
32 views from Martin Luther
God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
78 other wisdom & wit from Voltaire
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
32 quotes from William Blake
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
14 sayings from Laurence Sterne
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
9 more views from Charles M. Schulz
I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
22 other quotes from Jimi Hendrix
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
11 views from Bruce Lee
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
74 wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
52 other quotes from Albert Camus
It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.
22 more thoughts from Jimi Hendrix
It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.
22 sayings from Jimi Hendrix
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
39 quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
10 sayings from Isaac Bashevis Singer
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
52 more quotes from George Eliot
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
2 other sayings from Corita Kent
Life is too short to work so hard.
5 quotes from Vivien Leigh
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
98 more quotes from Mark Twain
May you live all the days of your life.
19 more quotes from Jonathan Swift
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
74 wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
4 quotes from Marie Curie
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
39 more sayings from Robert Louis Stevenson
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
7 other quotes from Phillips Brooks
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
68 more sayings from Samuel Butler
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
23 wisdom & wit from Walt Disney
I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.
10 thoughts from Frank Sinatra
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
68 other quotes from Samuel Butler
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
68 more wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
11 thoughts from Rebecca West
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
7 quotes from Samuel Smiles
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
68 quotes from Samuel Butler
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
75 thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
14 more wisdom & wit from Jim Morrison
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
23 wisdom & wit from Henry Miller
This is the strangest life I've ever known.
14 quotes from Jim Morrison
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
26 views from Emily Dickinson
Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.
2 more views from Steven Biko
Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.
26 thoughts from Emily Dickinson
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
23 wisdom & wit from Walt Disney
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
46 other wisdom & wit from George Santayana
Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
24 sayings from W. C. Fields
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
19 more quotes from Edgar Allan Poe
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
6 views from William Lyon Phelps
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
40 more quotes from William James
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
40 quotes from William James
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
26 other quotes from E. M. Forster
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
41 other views from Martin Luther King, Jr.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
16 other quotes from Isaac Asimov
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
15 wisdom & wit from Albert Schweitzer
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
40 quotes from William James
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
56 more thoughts from Khalil Gibran
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
40 quotes from William James
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
56 quotes from Khalil Gibran
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
26 quotes from E. M. Forster
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
9 quotes from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
41 thoughts from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
56 quotes from Khalil Gibran
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
67 views from Francis Bacon
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
36 more quotes from Lord Byron
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
12 other thoughts from Simone de Beauvoir
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
36 views from Lord Byron
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
4 wisdom & wit from Carl Rogers
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
15 quotes from Albert Schweitzer
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
24 wisdom & wit from Carl Sandburg
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
40 other quotes from William James
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
2 more quotes from Jackie Robinson
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
96 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Franklin
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
14 more quotes from William Arthur Ward
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
19 views from Anton Chekhov
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
40 quotes from William James
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
12 other views from Simone de Beauvoir
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
96 sayings from Benjamin Franklin
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
12 wisdom & wit from Thomas Merton
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
56 quotes from Khalil Gibran
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
9 more views from Swami Vivekananda
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
2 wisdom & wit from Arthur Rubinstein
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
7 thoughts from Tallulah Bankhead
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
11 views from Meister Eckhart
It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
29 views from W. Somerset Maugham
Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
2 wisdom & wit from Sitting Bull
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
15 quotes from Albert Schweitzer
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
8 thoughts from Ernest Holmes
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
16 quotes from Isaac Asimov
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
56 quotes from Khalil Gibran
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
56 views from Khalil Gibran
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
96 views from Benjamin Franklin
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
12 more quotes from Thomas Merton
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
19 quotes from Edgar Allan Poe
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
56 more views from Khalil Gibran
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
3 quotes from Cary Grant
Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
24 other views from W. C. Fields
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
56 sayings from Khalil Gibran
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
7 quotes from Lewis Carroll
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
8 other sayings from Charles Darwin
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
47 wisdom & wit from Abraham Lincoln
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
5 quotes from Andre Breton
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
16 other quotes from Havelock Ellis
Children make your life important.
33 sayings from Erma Bombeck
Dreams are necessary to life.
21 more wisdom & wit from Anais Nin
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
3 more quotes from Alice Roosevelt Longworth
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
23 quotes from Thomas A. Edison
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
47 thoughts from Abraham Lincoln
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
24 more views from Ayn Rand
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
25 other quotes from Simone Weil
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
47 views from Abraham Lincoln
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
21 quotes from Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
21 quotes from Anais Nin
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
23 more quotes from Thomas A. Edison
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
11 more quotes from Bob Marley
People living deeply have no fear of death.
21 quotes from Anais Nin
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
24 other sayings from Ayn Rand
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
9 more quotes from Alfred Adler
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
73 views from Victor Hugo
There is no wealth but life.
45 more quotes from John Ruskin
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
21 more quotes from Anais Nin
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
7 more sayings from Langston Hughes
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
8 more quotes from James Dean
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
21 other views from Anais Nin
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
50 thoughts from Robert Frost
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
50 thoughts from Robert Frost
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
50 sayings from Robert Frost
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
105 more wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
18 other thoughts from Joseph Campbell
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
50 quotes from Robert Frost
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
18 thoughts from Joseph Campbell
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
6 views from William Morris
To be free is to have achieved your life.
17 more quotes from Tennessee Williams
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
18 wisdom & wit from Joseph Campbell
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
8 quotes from Vernon Howard
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
18 more wisdom & wit from Joseph Campbell
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
17 quotes from Tennessee Williams
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
18 more quotes from Jean Paul
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
17 quotes from Leo Buscaglia
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
4 other quotes from Jean Ingelow
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
18 more wisdom & wit from Joseph Campbell
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
50 more quotes from Robert Frost
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
23 other thoughts from Vincent Van Gogh
Don't let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
3 other views from Richard L. Evans
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
50 quotes from Robert Frost
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
18 thoughts from Jean Paul
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
105 thoughts from Albert Einstein
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
7 other wisdom & wit from B. F. Skinner
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
18 other quotes from Joseph Campbell
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
105 views from Albert Einstein
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
50 wisdom & wit from Robert Frost
It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
12 sayings from Julius Caesar
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
18 more sayings from Joseph Campbell
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
3 other wisdom & wit from Sholom Aleichem
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
18 views from Joseph Campbell
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
17 more wisdom & wit from Leo Buscaglia
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
17 quotes from Leo Buscaglia
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
50 other quotes from Robert Frost
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
105 more wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
18 more quotes from Joseph Campbell
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
27 quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
81 sayings from William Shakespeare
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
41 quotes from Marcus Aurelius
I bear a charmed life.
81 sayings from William Shakespeare
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
6 more thoughts from Emile Zola
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
7 wisdom & wit from Abraham Maslow
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
5 more views from Charlotte Bronte
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
42 more quotes from Josh Billings
Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
81 views from William Shakespeare
Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
11 views from William Ellery Channing
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
9 more wisdom & wit from Vladimir Nabokov
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
11 more quotes from Charlie Chaplin
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
81 other views from William Shakespeare
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
12 more quotes from George Herbert
Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
3 other quotes from Carl Friedrich Gauss
Life well spent is long.
27 more wisdom & wit from Leonardo da Vinci
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
41 other wisdom & wit from Marcus Aurelius
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
10 other sayings from Booker T. Washington
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
38 quotes from William Hazlitt
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
41 more quotes from Marcus Aurelius
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
70 other quotes from Thomas Jefferson
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
70 more thoughts from Thomas Jefferson
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
41 sayings from Marcus Aurelius
Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
41 thoughts from Marcus Aurelius
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
11 wisdom & wit from Charlie Chaplin
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
21 wisdom & wit from William Wordsworth
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
22 thoughts from Soren Kierkegaard
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
135 other views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
14 other thoughts from Audrey Hepburn
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
45 quotes from Bertrand Russell
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
16 quotes from Hubert H. Humphrey
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
22 more views from Soren Kierkegaard
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
23 more quotes from Niccolo Machiavelli
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
14 other quotes from Audrey Hepburn
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
52 other sayings from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
24 wisdom & wit from Joseph Addison
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
45 quotes from Bertrand Russell
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.
14 other wisdom & wit from Audrey Hepburn
With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.
135 other thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
26 quotes from Sigmund Freud
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
11 other quotes from Norman Vincent Peale
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
23 views from E. W. Howe
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
35 quotes from Rabindranath Tagore
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
15 other wisdom & wit from Christopher Morley
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
52 other quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
15 more quotes from Christopher Morley
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
135 more thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as there is life there is danger.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
2 wisdom & wit from Omar Khayyam
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
46 other quotes from John F. Kennedy
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
35 more quotes from Rabindranath Tagore
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
13 other views from James M. Barrie
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
135 other sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
35 views from Rabindranath Tagore
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
22 thoughts from Soren Kierkegaard
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
22 sayings from Soren Kierkegaard
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
2 quotes from Irving Berlin
Life is a long lesson in humility.
13 quotes from James M. Barrie
Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
4 quotes from Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life is hard it's harder if you're stupid.
4 sayings from John Wayne
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
22 quotes from Soren Kierkegaard
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
4 more thoughts from John Wayne
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
21 quotes from Malcolm X
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
46 quotes from John F. Kennedy
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
59 other quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
16 more thoughts from Vince Lombardi
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
21 more views from Mignon McLaughlin
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
26 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright
I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe
If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.
53 wisdom & wit from Marilyn Monroe
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
53 more wisdom & wit from Marilyn Monroe
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
17 wisdom & wit from Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
31 quotes from Helen Keller
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
4 other sayings from Gilda Radner
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
31 quotes from Helen Keller
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
31 quotes from Helen Keller
Life is just one damned thing after another.
59 more sayings from Elbert Hubbard
Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
2 more thoughts from Virginia Satir
Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
14 more sayings from Jean Anouilh
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
59 other quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?
53 wisdom & wit from Marilyn Monroe
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
31 quotes from Helen Keller
Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
53 thoughts from Marilyn Monroe
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
59 other views from Elbert Hubbard
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
59 sayings from Elbert Hubbard
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
16 other wisdom & wit from Vince Lombardi
The quality of life is more important than life itself.
5 sayings from Alexis Carrel
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
31 wisdom & wit from Helen Keller
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
15 quotes from Norman Cousins
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
26 more views from Frank Lloyd Wright
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
5 more quotes from Igor Stravinsky
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
117 views from Henry David Thoreau
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
19 quotes from Carl Jung
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
115 sayings from George Bernard Shaw
There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
117 more sayings from Henry David Thoreau
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
117 other views from Henry David Thoreau
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
117 other sayings from Henry David Thoreau
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
117 more quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
3 views from Karl A. Menninger
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.
115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
11 sayings from William Osler
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
117 more views from Henry David Thoreau
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
35 more wisdom & wit from Ernest Hemingway
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
32 more wisdom & wit from Henry Ford
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
3 more wisdom & wit from Mary McLeod Bethune
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
19 wisdom & wit from Alexis de Tocqueville
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
32 quotes from Henry Ford
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
117 views from Henry David Thoreau
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
115 more thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
14 quotes from Robert A. Heinlein
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
117 more sayings from Henry David Thoreau
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
5 other sayings from Aphra Behn
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
35 views from Ernest Hemingway
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
15 quotes from Jean de La Fontaine
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
117 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
19 other sayings from E. B. White
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
117 other quotes from Henry David Thoreau
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
35 more thoughts from Ernest Hemingway
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
117 wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau
Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
3 more quotes from Isaac Watts
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.
115 other quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
27 quotes from Dave Barry
Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
6 wisdom & wit from Abraham Cahan
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
115 other quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
115 views from George Bernard Shaw
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
115 wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
Live the life you've dreamed.
117 views from Henry David Thoreau
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
117 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
14 thoughts from Robert A. Heinlein
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
7 wisdom & wit from Jorge Luis Borges
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
4 more views from Ben Hogan
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
7 more quotes from Marcus Garvey
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
31 sayings from Mae West
Life is but thought.
6 quotes from Sara Teasdale
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
22 sayings from William Feather
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
11 wisdom & wit from Lucille Ball
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
22 wisdom & wit from William Feather
What we play is life.
4 quotes from Louis Armstrong
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
50 views from Napoleon Bonaparte