Top 100 Life Quotes

1

O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

2

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of ...3

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

4

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

5

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

6

Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

7

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

8

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

9

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

10

Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.

11

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

12

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

13

love the life you live. live the life you love.

14

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior ...15

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

16

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

17

We often just accept the things that we like, and complain a lot about the things that we don't like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell on the really great things in life the way we intensely dwell on the negative things in life; I think that would be fantastic.

18

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

The mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit is that such a life is ...19

The mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit is that such a life is continually and ever more and more occupied with Christ, that Christ becomes greater and greater as time goes on.

20

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

21

Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

22

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

23

UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.

24

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

25

I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!

26

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

27

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

28

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

29

If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another.

30

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

31

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.

32

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it

33

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

34

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

35

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.

36

There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!

37

The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.

38

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

39

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

40

Develop the wise art of being radically truthful and remaining considerate, thoughtful, and safe.

41

We often despise what is most useful to us.

42

It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.

43

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

44

How should they answer?

45

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

46

Now don't think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.

47

If we really want something done, it is best to do it ourselves.

48

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

49

It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.

50

You never fail until you stop trying.

51

The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.

52

I admit that thoughts influence the body.

53

The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

54

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

55

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

56

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

57

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

58

My life carries its own meaning in itself.

59

The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.

60

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

61

A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body.

62

You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.

63

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

64

She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.

65

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

66

We have two lives; The soul of man is like the rolling world, One half in day, the other dipt in night; The one has music and the flying cloud, The other, silence and the wakeful stars.

67

I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life.

68

God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.

69

And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.

70

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

71

Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind, One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea, One in many, O broken and blind, One as the waves are at one with the sea! Ay! when life seems scattered apart, Darkens, ends as a tale that is told, One, we are one, O heart of my heart, One, still one, while the world grows old.

72

Despising cowardice in others, I wished to prove myself no coward. Believing in the good, the gentle, the beautiful things of life, I addressed myself to the sweet duty of keeping these attributes for my children's sake and my own. And in striving to provide a living for them, I found a success beyond my wildest dreams.

73

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

74

Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.

75

Within walking distance of any spot on Earth there's probably more than enough mystery to investigate in a lifetime.

76

A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned to resist. He has learned the value of money, and how to refuse to spend it. He has learned the value of time, and how the conversion of it into useful things will make of his life something worthwhile. He has learned to say no, to say no at the right time and then to stand by it. Without resistance, and the self-denial which it often imposes, there is no real happiness. In the quest for happiness man must learn that temptation resisted strengthens the mind and the soul.

77

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

78

To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.

79

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

80

It is not good to have TOO MUCH of anything.

81

Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.

82

Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.

83

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

84

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

85

The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.

86

For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded and interrupted by the sea, continuously visited and abandoned by the tides. One must accept the serenity of the winged life, of ebb and flow, of intermittency.

87

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

88

Hidden paths can't be walked without moving obstacles.

89

You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.

90

We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.

91

In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them spoken, but we grow into them by experience and recognize them through understanding. Understanding is a great experience in itself, but it does not come through instruction.

92

There's always someone who secretly believes in myths and legends; or at least parts of them. Those are the people who will look beyond the obvious and see things in this world that are truly wonderful... But they won't say anything, even if they do. Because the rest of us who view the world as logical and scientific wouldn't see the truth if it was posted up on a billboard.

93

Always have old memories, and young hopes.

94

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

95

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

96

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

97

Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.

98

Breathe. It's only a bad day not a bad life.

99

There are always and only two trains running. There is life and there is death. Each of us rides them both. To live life with dignity, to celebrate and accept responsibility for your presence in the world is all that can be asked of anyone.

100

The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.

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