Life Quotes

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

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

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

If you had to define stress, it would not be far off if you said it was the process of living. The process of living is the process of having stress imposed on you and reacting to it.

Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.

He only earns his freedom and existence who daily conquers them anew.

Life ain't like books. Books got somebody writin' 'em and tryin' to entertain ya. Life is more like a set of Legos. Unless you take care of 'em, you lose a few pieces and you end up steppin' on 'em with bare feet. You gotta take care of your life.

The great use of a life is to spend for something that outlasts it.

Life is not a spectacle or feast; it is a predicament.

The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "compared to what?"

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.

You don’t have to live your life so that your life is suitable for small talk. Life can be lived in ways that circumnavigate a myriad of colors and landscapes.

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

The unexamined life is not worth living.