Quotes about life
I have selected out various themes of quotations to make them a little easier to browse, all these quotes are about 'Life'.- The tragedy of life is not that is ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. (W. M. Lewis)
- Yesterday is the past. Tomorrow is the future. Today is a gift and that's why we call it the present. (Unknown)
- Your actions in life set your course and determine the destination of your travels. Your reactions in life create the climate in which you travel. (Beth Johnson)
- How do we nurture the soul? By revering our own life. By learning to love it all, not only the joys and the victories, but also the pain and the struggles. (Nathaniel Branden)
- We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe in most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly. (Shakti Gawain)
- Although there are countless teachings that instruct how to obtain enlightenment in a future life, almost all of them are nothing more than expedients, as the ultimate instruction there is simply no teaching that is superior to the true practice of the awakening to one's own nature. (Unknown)
- I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see and pursuing that vision. (Howard Schultz)
- There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. (Albert Einstein)
- The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. (Abraham Lincoln)
- The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life. (Dalai Lama)
- My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference! (Harry Truman)
- Through hard work, the successful person can expect to attain their every goal in life. The unsuccessful person, because they hardly work, can only expect to obtain a cheap, pale imitation of success in their life. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
- Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you. (Jerry Brown)
- Live your own life. We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think should. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail... We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart. (Julie Cameron)
- Life isn't about what happens to us. It's about how we perceive what happens to us. (Unknown)
- He who drinks from the fountain of life and quenches his thirst for knowledge never comes up dry. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
- If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man's life a sorrow and a suffering enough to disarm all hostility. (Henry Longfellow)
- If one attempts to walk the straight and narrow path in life, it may be advisable to remain thin and sober. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
- Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life. (Germaine Greer)
- If we truly realized how precious the Gift of life is, we would not waste a moment trying to improve it. If we really understood how precious we are to the Gift of life we would not waste time trying to fix ourselves. (Unknown)
- One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life. (Edward B. Butler)
- Beyond anything else, listen to yourself. You are meant to discover reality from inside and to direct your life in this way. As you begin to live according to your own guidance and your own daring, everything changes completely. (B. Marciniak)
- The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... and fight for what you believe in? (Dan Quayle)
- Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. (Eckhart Tolle)
- Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. (Buddha)
- When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. (Winston Churchill) [former Priminister]
- When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. (Peter Marshall)
- While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. (Angela Schwindt)
- Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. (Berthold Auerbach)
- Life is an ever revolving door; you can be 'in' one minute and 'out' the next. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
- Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. (Alfred Adler)
- Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. (Marie Curie)
- I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming. (Goethe)
- If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. (Nadine Stair)
- Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. (Les Brown)
- Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it. (Shakti Gawain)
- Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. (Carl Jung)
- The purpose of life is a life of purpose. (Robery Byrne)
- Discouragement often is the result of listening to people who have their own best interests planned for your life. (Doug Firebaugh)
- Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know - that man is here for the sake of other men. (Albert Einstein)
- Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things. (Stephen Covey)
- It is a funny thing about life: If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. (Somerset Maugham)
- Life begins as a quest of the child for the man, and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child. (Sam Ewing)
- In the new enlightenment, the reason we are driven to become one with the life-process is not merely to experience some form of mystical oneness with everything. We strive to become one with it for the biggest reason there could be - so we can ultimately take responsibility for where it's going. (Andrew Cohen)
- If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. (Rene Descartes)
- Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. (Melody Beattie)
- Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. (William James)
- Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated. (Confucius)
- Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Was it worth it? (Unknown)
- There are four questions of value in life - What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. (Don Juan DeMarco)
- Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. (Soren Kierkegaard)
- We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go we take a little of each other everywhere. (Unknown)
- No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself. (Denis Waitley)
- When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one smiling and everyone around you is crying. (Unknown)
- Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus. (Oprah Winfrey)
- Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is bliss, taste it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it. (Mother Teresa)
- You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. (Charles F. Kettering)
- Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. (Mark Twain)
- Take the road less traveled. It will provide the journey of a lifetime. (Robert Finkelstein)
- On Life's long, hard journey, it would be wise to pack light any ego, false pride, and deceit, and take away and make well of your faithful travelling companions - integrity, truth, and honesty of character. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
- Allowing the truth of who you are - your spiritual self - to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life. (Oprah Winfrey)
- Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you. (Jim Rohn)
- The sad part about life is we tend to comment only on those who do it wrong and neglect to balance it with praise for those who do it right. (Keith Ready)
- in the grand 'game' called 'life', it is better to always plan one step 'ahead' of your competitors, as the chess master, rather than the inferior pool player left perpetually to stand 'behind' the eight ball. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
- In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy. (Albert Clarke)
- The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. He alone lives, while other people, slaves of ceremony, let life slip past them in a kind of dream. (Virginia Woolf)
- The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than growing with them. (Bernard M. Baruch)
- Life can sometimes turn into one big 3 ring circus. When we attempt to climb upward on the ladder of success we sometimes are required to juggle while performing a precarious balancing act on a taught tight-rope like a trapeze artist left to hang without a net. We are also constantly confronted with assorted clowns and court jesters. Like the ringmaster, our boss may sometimes expect us to jump though hoops. If not, they're eager and ready to feed us to the lions. Like the elephant, we sometimes are expected to work a full day for just peanuts, while also trying to make a monkey out of us. So, if you become disillusioned with you job and decide to seek greener pastures and a change of scenery, remember the old adage: 'It may be a jungle out there'. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
- If you want to see the brighter side of life, you first must remove your blinders. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
- The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
- To a great extent, the people with whom you choose to associate influence the direction of your life. (Unknown)
- We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves. (George Matthew Adams)
- A calendar is the most useless of things to the unambitious who have neither desire or have never set a timetable to attain and achieve any goal in life. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
- Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional. (Roger Crawford)
- The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing. (Michael E. Gerber)
- Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. (Anais Nin)
- If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything. (Allyson Jones)
- View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? what would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? what were the happy moments? what were the sad? what would you do again, and what you wouldn't? (Victor Frankl)
- What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. (Colette)
- Life isn't measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away. (Unknown)
- Very little is needed to make a happy life; it's all within yourself, in your way of thinking. (Marcus Aurelius)
- To get ahead in life you have to learn to saddle your own horse (Unknown)
- In the grand game and art called life, it is wise of one to cultivate an environment of understanding, knowledge and purpose of heart to reach and attain all your noble and lofty goals in life, unlike others who pursue and chase vague, shallow and other meaningless trivial pursuits. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
- The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs. (James Allen)
- It is easier to seek forgiveness than to obtain permission. (Unknown) Click here for illustrated quote
- Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile. (Paul Tornier)
- View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie. (Unknown)
- He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. (Marcus Aurelius)
- You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value. (Phillip C. McGraw)
- Fashion your life as a garland of deeds. (Buddha)
- You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. (Evan Esar)
- A life of meditation is to perceive at any time the beauty of the moment. Mind and body are always one. (Tong Po )
- Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. (Harvey Fierstein)
- Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life. (Northrup Christiane)
- Your life has the potential to be a wondrous journey, filled with exciting moments and astonishing experiences. It can be a thrilling ride if you are open to exploring all that is available to you. Adventure is the result of your willingness to live with a spirit of enthusiasm. (C. Carter-Scott)
- Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. (Unknown)
- Some doors are positioned to swing both ways, while others open in one direction and return closed to their original position, still others are positioned to revolve in a circle. So learn from the door, to place yourself in the proper position in life where all the doors to success will always remain open to you. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
- If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. (Albert Einstein)
- The greatest legacy and inheritance an individual can leave to others is a life lived and remembered by fond memories of unselfish love, devotion and service to god, family and mankind. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
- The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions (Alfred Adler)
- Life... it tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations. (Richard M. DeVos)
- Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. (Mary Anne Radmacher)
- Focus on the positive in your life, for what you focus on increases. (Unknown)
- Life is a leap into the unknown. If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster (Bill Harris)
- Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today. (James Dean)
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