Life Quotes

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.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Everything in life is luck.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

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.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

I love life because what more is there.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

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.

Life is but thought.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

Life is never easy for those who dream.

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

Life is wasted on the living.

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize.

Life must be lived as play.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

May you live every day of your life.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

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.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

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

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Only a few things are really important.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

There is no wealth but life.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

What we play is life.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

While there's life, there's hope.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Grace means more than gifts. In grace something is transcended, once and for all overcome. Grace happens in spite of something; it happens in spite of separateness and alienation. Grace means that life is once again united with life, self is reconciled with self. Grace means accepting the abandoned one. Grace transforms fate into a meaningful vocation. It transforms guilt to trust and courage. The word grace has something triumphant in it.

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

A life lived in love will never be dull.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after -- lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no one can live.

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

To be awake is to be alive.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything.

We spend most of our lives conjugating three verbs: to want, to have, and to do.

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Life has got to be lived -- that's all there is to it.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.