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1000 Best Life Quotes

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. William Hazlitt

The person lives twice who lives the first life well. Robert Herrick

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Henry David Thoreau

What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations. Adam Braun

Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something. Ralph Marston

Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are. Emmy Rossum

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. Dr. Seuss

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party. Ron White

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

It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it. John Burroughs

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it. Danny Kaye

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Cesare Pavese

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it. Ralph Marston

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. Edmund Burke

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit. Christopher McCandless

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. Jiddu Krishnamurti

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations. L. Lionel Kendrick

You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens. Kirsten Dunst

A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father. Frank Abagnale

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern. Matthew Arnold

Growth is the only evidence of life. John Henry Newman

I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world - the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life. Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life. Marc Anthony

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes. Hugh Prather

Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. Anderson Silva

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw

My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life. Carla Gugino

Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up. Ezra Taft Benson

The best path through life is the highway. Henri Frederic Amiel

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. Pablo Picasso

To know nothing is the happiest life. Desiderius Erasmus

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have. Ralph Marston

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 others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Steve Jobs

Character develops itself in the stream of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything in life is luck. Donald Trump

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you're able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting. Joyce Meyer

I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model! Sally Ride

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. Adlai E. Stevenson

Life is a game and true love is a trophy. Rufus Wainwright

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! Bob Marley

Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure. Phylicia Rashad

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. Ann Landers

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. Brooke Shields


The less routine the more life. Amos Bronson Alcott

There is just one life for each of us: our own. Euripides

We believe in working hard and having fun at the same time. It's a way of life for me, and I feel tremendous. Robert Stigwood

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. Tom Brokaw

As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin. Rosa Parks

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. Joan Lunden

I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same. Lil Wayne

I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do. Martin Lawrence

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. George Eliot

Life is hard. After all, it kills you. Katharine Hepburn

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny. Stephen Hawking

My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life. Natalie Massenet

Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. A willingness to forgo sleep. A penchant for sadomasochism. Ability to weather crises of faith and self-confidence. Accept exhaustion as fact of life. Addiction to caffeine a definite plus. Unfailing optimism that the end is in sight. Khaled Hosseini

The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience. Wayne Dyer

The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer. Johnny Cash

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. Baltasar Gracian

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

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. Christopher Morley

Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms. Travis Bradberry

Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it. Katrina Kaif

I feel like life is really short, and it's important to enjoy yourself and embrace whatever comes your way, whether it's a challenging day or a great day, just welcome it with open arms. No matter who you are, you can't escape challenges; they are part of life. Miranda Kerr

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. Eleanor Roosevelt

I've known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don't know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life. Jasmine Guinness

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult. Prem Rawat

Life is too short to work so hard. Vivien Leigh

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things. Tom Petty

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same. Angelina Jolie

That's who my mom is. She's a listener and a doer. She's a woman driven by compassion, by faith, by a fierce sense of justice and a heart full of love. So, this November, I'm voting for a woman who is my role model, as a mother, and as an advocate. A woman who has spent her entire life fighting for families and children. Chelsea Clinton

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. Buddha

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. Anais Nin

Weight loss can change your whole character. That always amazed me: Shedding pounds does change your personality. It changes your philosophy of life because you recognize that you are capable of using your mind to change your body. Jean Nidetch

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human. Rosa Parks


Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. Alan Alda

Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life. Janine di Giovanni

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. Langston Hughes

I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home. Aleksandar Hemon

I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul. Caitlyn Jenner

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. Charlotte Bronte

Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it. Aidan Quinn

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Khalil Gibran

My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life. Kate Middleton

Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life. Renee Olstead

The difficulty in life is the choice. George A. Moore

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. Jimi Hendrix

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last. Marcus Aurelius

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life. Robert Baden-Powell

I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy. Paula Cole

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living. Terry Pratchett

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. Ronald Reagan

Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. Iain Duncan Smith

Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow. Tom Wilson

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. Helen Keller

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. Michelle Obama

Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else. Tim Hetherington

Everyone can have their heart broken. Even if you know the relationship isn't working, it's still sad. Even in a bad relationship, they're part of your life for a long time, and saying goodbye to that can be difficult. James Marsden

I bear a charmed life. William Shakespeare

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living. Ursula Andress

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. Charles Lindbergh

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life. Jackie Robinson

Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip. Ginger Rogers

No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them. Alana Stewart

Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it. Karolina Kurkova

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. Ben Stein

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Isaac Asimov

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. Anna Freud

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. Pat Conroy

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad. Robert Wagner

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. Og Mandino

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us. Alan Cohen


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. E. B. White

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it. Laurence Sterne

Into each life some rain must fall. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. Charles R. Swindoll

Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife. Tim Gunn

Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is. Mary Ellen Mark

No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have. Dong Dong

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. Victor Hugo

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. Henry Adams

There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe. Michael Keaton

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. William Osler

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death. Buddha

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. Phillips Brooks

Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination. A. R. Rahman

Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful. There is nothing I can think of that is quite as isolating as this. Giles Andreae

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong. Tom Welling

I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus. Ranbir Kapoor

Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride. Gary Allan

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

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. Paulo Coelho

My life needs editing. Mort Sahl

Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life. Neil deGrasse Tyson

The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is brotherhood. Edwin Markham

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl Jung

Today's a beautiful day, and yesterday was a beautiful day, so that means it's a great life. Gnash

When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day. Ella Woodward

All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten. Robert Fulghum

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious. Will Rogers

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. Frank Lloyd Wright

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful. Christina Milian

I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life. Cara Delevingne

It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Rita Rudner

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu

Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way. Andrew Shue

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. Samuel Butler

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. Carol Burnett

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. Swami Vivekananda

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. Pierre de Coubertin

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

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. E. M. Forster

You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about. Sophia Loren

Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light. Tori Amos

Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there's a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. And I'm no longer alone. Edward Snowden


I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding. George Lucas

I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible. Josh Zuckerman

Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things - of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires. Sheri L. Dew

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. Oscar Wilde

Life is never easy for those who dream. Robert James Waller

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. Henry Rollins

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change. Sarah Ban Breathnach

Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate. Norman Davies

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Marcus Aurelius

There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it. Queen Latifah

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us. Joan D. Vinge

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop. Dorothy Height

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life. George W. Bush

Each day is the scholar of yesterday. Publilius Syrus

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

I have never in my life found myself in a situation where I've stopped work and said, 'Thank God it's Friday.' But weekends are special even if your schedule is all over the place. Something tells you the weekend has arrived and you can indulge yourself a bit. Helen Mirren

I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to. Martin Freeman

Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you do have in life. Be thankful for the blessings of the little things, even when you don't get what you expect. Victoria Osteen

Life is full of adventure. There's no such thing as a clear pathway. Guy Laliberte

Life must be lived as play. Plato

My life is my message. Mahatma Gandhi

People living deeply have no fear of death. Anais Nin

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. Alfred Adler

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. Cesare Pavese

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. Kevyn Aucoin

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'. Erma Bombeck

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. Thomas Merton

I am hopeful that one day I will meet that right man and will have a very happy life partner. Lara Giddings

I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings breathe out carbon dioxide into the air, the leaves of plants pick this carbon dioxide up, and the plant gives off oxygen, which we can breathe in and keep our life going. Percy Julian

In this world, with thy earthly life, thou art under heaven, stars, and elements, also under hell and devils; all ruleth in thee, and over thee. Jakob Bohme

Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed. Vidya Balan

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace. Carly Fiorina

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.' Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow. L. Ron Hubbard

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do. Billy Graham

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. William James

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments. Chris Rock

We all have different things that we go through in our everyday life, and it's really important to know just at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what you face, you know, that you're going to win at the end of the day. You got to believe in yourself. You got to believe in God, know that He's going to get you through it. Kelly Rowland

With renunciation life begins. Amelia Barr


A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential. John C. Maxwell

Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process. Paul Rand

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Steve Jobs

I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible. Isaac Asimov

I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up. Nas

It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life. Teena Marie

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

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. Lou Holtz

Memories are the best things in life, I think. Romy Schneider

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. William Feather

'Sunrise Sunset' is about trying to get to a place where life is simple and not letting the stress and happenings in the world get in the way of your happiness. Benny Cassette

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. Oprah Winfrey

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend. Jack Nicholson

We live in a rainbow of chaos. Paul Cezanne

You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family. Rod Stewart

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. Richard L. Evans

Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life. Nuno Bettencourt

I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all! Christopher McCandless

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. Bruce Lee

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance. Morgan Freeman

Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life. Domhnall Gleeson

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia. Alexis Carrel

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses. Isabel Allende

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. Havelock Ellis

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? Edgar Allan Poe

The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy. Kenneth H. Cooper

To me I've just really, really found a relaxed, peaceful side of my life and I'm enjoying it. Greg Norman

Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and give your best. Whether you want to be a chef, doctor, actor, or a mother, be passionate to get the best result. Alia Bhatt

Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life. Ernie Harwell

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. Sophocles

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Arnold Schwarzenegger

I do not regret one moment of my life. Lillie Langtry

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone. Robin Williams

It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. Joel Osteen

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise. George Gershwin

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best. Maude Adams

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

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood. Agatha Christie

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. Booker T. Washington

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Niccolo Machiavelli

There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space. Buzz Aldrin


We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change. John Cleese

As I get older, the things that I want are starting to make more sense. Being able to travel makes me happy, and I am a person that lives in the moment. I also want to live a good life. Traveling makes everyday issues seem so much smaller and really changes my perspective on things. Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it. Andrew Jackson

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud. Emile Zola

I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life. Emilia Fox

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love. Marla Gibbs

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

Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling. Claude Pepper

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. C. S. Lewis

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change. Gretchen Rubin

School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American. W. E. B. Du Bois

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith. Billy Graham

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. Horace Walpole

Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in. Emmitt Smith

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. Erich Fromm

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching. Swami Sivananda

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life. Brian Tracy

Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends. Divyanka Tripathi

I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to share this. Eric Idle

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. Marcus Garvey

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown. Stephen Gardiner

Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour. Eckhart Tolle

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. Hans Christian Andersen

My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret. Tina Turner

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together. Linda Thompson

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. Oprah Winfrey

The purpose of our lives is to be happy. Dalai Lama

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

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. Wayne Dyer

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. Walter Hagen

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Confucius

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. Vince Lombardi

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it. Audrey Hepburn

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person. Judith Hill

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family. Philip Green

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. Pope Francis

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. Henri Frederic Amiel

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man. Joyce Meyer

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. Elie Wiesel

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Dr. Seuss

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. Henri Frederic Amiel

There is nothing I can do to undo what I did. I can only say again how sorry I am to those I let down and then strive to go forward with a greater sense of humility and purpose, and with gratitude to those who stood with me during a very difficult chapter in my life. David Petraeus


We do not remember days, we remember moments. Cesare Pavese

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind. Joyce Meyer

At the end of the day, life is about being happy being who you are, and I feel like we are so blessed to have the support system and the best family to really just support each other no matter what we're going through. Kim Kardashian

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today? Mary Manin Morrissey

I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset. Chris Evans

I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends. Cindy Morgan

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Albert Schweitzer

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again. Stephen King

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. Benjamin Franklin

My trade and art is to live. Michel de Montaigne

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure. Paulo Coelho

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. Carl Rogers

The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life. Karl A. Menninger

While there's life, there's hope. Marcus Tullius Cicero

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life. Jean Ingelow

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. Joel Osteen

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson

I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy. Jamie Lee Curtis

I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else? Shailene Woodley

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. Napoleon Hill

Life is a horizontal fall. Jean Cocteau

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

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. Groucho Marx

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

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. Steve Jobs

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. Frank Lloyd Wright

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. Nelson Mandela

We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives. Gary Zukav

You can really only enjoy life when you're extremely busy. Josephine de La Baume

A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful. Theodore Zeldin

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. John F. Kennedy

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder. David Maraniss

I think the biggest misconception about me is people really don't know who I really am. They see the party side of me, they see the crazy side of me. But I also have a laid-back side. You know, I'm chill, down to earth. If you want to grab a cup of coffee and just talk about life, I can do that. Nicole Polizzi

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls Wilder

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. Vladimir Nabokov

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went. Jonathan Sacks

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

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. Keri Russell

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. Frederick Douglass

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism. bell hooks

We cannot put off living until we are ready. Jose Ortega y Gasset

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. Oliver Goldsmith

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings. Publilius Syrus

I had no blood relatives till I made some. Andy Dick

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times. Saint Augustine

Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile. Langston Hughes

Life is a zoo in a jungle. Peter De Vries

Life is wasted on the living. Douglas Adams

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life - that is, to be happy. Robert Baden-Powell

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped. Charles Stanley

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. Peter Marshall

A happy wife is a happy life. Gavin Rossdale


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

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. Swami Vivekananda

I feel like I have a new life and I'm going to take full advantage of it. William Green

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life. Plato

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream. Hugh Hefner

Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night. A. J. McLean

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Joseph Campbell

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Garrison Keillor

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. Marcus Aurelius

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. Henry James

We pass through this world but once. Stephen Jay Gould

You learn more about life from watching 'Big Brother' than from reading a book. John de Mol, Jr.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. Robert Frost

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. Victor Hugo

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. Voltaire

I feel I am lucky. I am grateful for this life that God has given me. I am happy, as I am getting to do work that I want to do and enjoy doing it. Sonam Kapoor

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. James Dean

It's very hard to find true friends when your life is a bumpy ride full of twists and turns. But, I'm glad that amidst all the ramblings in my life I have managed to win some great friends. Harbhajan Singh

Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it. Sai Baba

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments! Jurgen Klopp

Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is. Louis Armstrong

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living? Bob Marley

Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living. Travis Barker

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. Max de Pree

You just got with the flow because life is just all about how you feel. Post Malone

Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven. Victoria Osteen

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them. Eminem

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality. Emily Dickinson

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. John Burroughs

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward. Drew Houston

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. Irving Berlin

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard

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. Mel Brooks

No man is a failure who is enjoying life. William Feather

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. Helen Hayes

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. Albert Schweitzer

We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community. Paul Bloom

Without football, my life is worth nothing. Cristiano Ronaldo

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time. Dwayne Johnson

Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway. Louise L. Hay

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

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. Paulo Coelho


I'm a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life. Mary McGarry Morris

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. Rabindranath Tagore

Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith. Kareena Kapoor Khan

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. Jane Austen

My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.' Magdalena Neuner

People will always have an opinion, but you have to live life the way you want to. It's very easy to tell others what to do, but difficult to implement it on yourself. Preity Zinta

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. John F. Kennedy

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Groucho Marx

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven. Jackie Robinson

When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent. Buzz Aldrin

A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy. Yanni

Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air, fire, water and the earth. This is what gives value to humans and elevates their spiritual qualities. If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. Laura Esquivel

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret. Robert E. Lee

I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I've been so blessed that I could never say, 'I wish this didn't happen.' It's part of who I am. There's nothing in my life that's so ugh. Jennifer Lopez

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau

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, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward. Henry Ford

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. Victor Hugo

Money doesn't mean anything to me. I've made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important. Keanu Reeves

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. Novalis

Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death. George Whitefield

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is. Dennis Rodman

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

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen. Ben Carson

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. Lord Byron

Every one has her own love life. Every one has a dream to get a perfect life partner. But this is not so easy in real life. In fact, one doesn't love; it happens. Katrina Kaif

I am I plus my circumstances. Jose Ortega y Gasset

I respect all religions, but I'm not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the right way, respecting other people. I wasn't brought up in a religious way, but I believe there's something out there that looks after you. David Beckham

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

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be. Abraham Cahan

Liza, I love you more than any words can say. You have made me a complete person. You are everything to me. And I cannot think of living life without you. And I love you forever. David Gest

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen Keller

The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born. David Duchovny

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. Stephen Covey

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success. Henry Rollins

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens. John Scalzi

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

I don't fear pain or failure anymore because I'm too grateful for the pains and failures of my past - they have made me who I am, and most of the good things in my life are a direct result of them in some way. Scott Derrickson

I want to live my life, not record it. Jackie Kennedy


It's never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make peace with it and move on. Francois Hougaard

Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation. Nia Peeples

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

Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that. Jon Kabat-Zinn

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love. Sophocles

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. Boris Pasternak

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. Thales

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong. Mary J. Blige

We live in the world when we love it. Rabindranath Tagore

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. Winston Churchill

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. Leonardo da Vinci

Don't Make Assumptions. 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. Don Miguel Ruiz

He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed. Tertullian

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live. Judy Collins

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy. Thich Nhat Hanh

Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Life is either a great adventure or nothing. Helen Keller

Life loves the liver of it. Maya Angelou

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past. Hugh Leonard

Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube. Joan Rivers

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. Thomas Jefferson

The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough. Yoko Ono

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving. Jerry Seinfeld

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ. Billy Graham

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning. Lillian Gish

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful. Thich Nhat Hanh

Every man dies. Not every man really lives. William Wallace

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important. David Rockefeller

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that. Kevin Bacon

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love. Eckhart Tolle

Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are. Chris Pine

Life is made up of marble and mud. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive. Matt Cameron

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

Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional. Brian Greene

The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work. Lucas Grabeel

There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game. Lionel Messi

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. Jacques Yves Cousteau

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. Wilma Rudolph

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain. William James

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. Wayne Dyer

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. W. Clement Stone

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. Arthur Rubinstein


If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. William J. Clinton

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. Dave Barry

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. Karen Horney

My life has been a blessing. I'm grateful for everything I do have and the places I'm going and the things I've seen. Leah LaBelle

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last. Lawrence Welk

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Richard Bach

The real business of life is trying to understand each other. Gilbert Parker

To live is to think. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you. John Wooden

Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life. Tyler, The Creator

Beware the barrenness of a busy life. Socrates

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. Khalil Gibran

I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things. Brian Baumgartner

I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way to live life is to do the things that you want to do and be the person that you want to be no matter who that is or what that is or how you have to do it. That's the only way you can be genuinely happy. Tucker Max

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. Elizabeth Kenny

Life is a long lesson in humility. James M. Barrie

Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it. Orhan Pamuk

May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying. Joan of Arc

Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head. A. R. Rahman

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. Albert Einstein

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. George Sand

We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children. Justin Trudeau

You change your life by changing your heart. Max Lucado

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

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is. Bob Feller

I am all for the short and merry life. Edward Fitzgerald

I love the sensation of being out in the open air, far away from all the distractions of modern life. I will usually disappear for a couple of hours, and that time on my bike is quite sacred, as it's when I do all my serious thinking. Sometimes I will stop off at bikers' cafe and have a bacon sandwich. Paul Hollywood

In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don't force it. You just don't force love, you don't force falling in love, you don't force being in love - you just become. I don't know how to say that in English, but you just feel it. Juan Pablo Galavis

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone. Charlie Chaplin

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Albert Einstein

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. Jean Paul

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. Carl Sandburg

Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle. Jackee Harry

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. Hubert H. Humphrey

The whole point is to live life and be - to use all the colors in the crayon box. RuPaul

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else. Ugo Betti

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

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity. Mark Hyman

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not. Valerie Bertinelli

I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy. Maeve Binchy

If you go around being afraid, you're never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you've got to have fun. Lindsey Vonn

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life. Isaac Bashevis Singer

Life is all about having a good time. Miley Cyrus

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find? Ridley Scott

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. Cary Grant

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. Henry David Thoreau

The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone. Karen Salmansohn

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. Robert Byrne

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. Samuel Butler

What we play is life. Louis Armstrong

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events. Joel Osteen

Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity. Tracy McMillan

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life. Douglas Coupland

I decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I could. Evel Knievel

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. Barbara Bush

It's a wonderful time when you sit down around the table for dinner and discuss life. No matter where you are, it gives the semblance of normalcy to my crazy world. Melina Kanakaredes

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. Oliver Goldsmith


Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have. Viggo Mortensen

Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss. Fabrizio Moreira

Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child. Peter Diamandis

Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path. Phillip Sweet

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. E. M. Forster

There is no wealth but life. John Ruskin

We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life and to an equal opportunity to reach their full potential as citizens. Those children who have been denied that right in the past deserve better than to see fences thrown up to deny them that right in the future. Thurgood Marshall

You cannot find peace by avoiding life. Virginia Woolf

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. Mark Twain

Don't go through life, grow through life. Eric Butterworth

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. Anne Roiphe

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life. Jerry Lewis

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. Oscar Wilde

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. Buddha

Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case. Norman Lear

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. Rose Kennedy

My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans. Richard Dawkins

Our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life. Carl Lewis

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. Joseph Campbell

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. John Burroughs

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it. Juliette Binoche

Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way. Skylar Grey

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. Pope Paul VI

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it. Al Lopez

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom. Rumi

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet. Jane Fonda

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about. Tiger Woods

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. Leonardo da Vinci

Life is about growing and improving and getting better. Conor McGregor

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. Grandma Moses

My daughter is my passion and my life. Tamara Mellon

Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities. Myles Munroe

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. H. L. Mencken

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

To be free is to have achieved your life. Tennessee Williams

What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones. Jensen Ackles

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Khalil Gibran

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Mark Twain

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. Gilbert K. Chesterton

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. Socrates

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. George Washington Carver

A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life. Deborah Tannen

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. Norman Cousins

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. Melody Beattie

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' Muhammad Ali

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. Bruce Lee

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. Buddha

Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Rain' was very much about choices. The message - we are what we chose to be. Graham Brown

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. John Lennon

My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along. Denise Van Outen

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. Soren Kierkegaard

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. Marcus Aurelius

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. Anais Nin

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice. Lord Acton

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. Joseph Campbell

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren't enough to hold us steady when the challenges come... We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life's hard times. Billy Graham

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? Ernest Hemingway

In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps. Queen Rania of Jordan

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth. Zhuangzi

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it. William Christopher Handy


Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts. Amy Winehouse

My theory on life is that life is beautiful. Life doesn't change. You have a day, and a night, and a month, and a year. We people change - we can be miserable or we can be happy. It's what you make of your life. Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. Horace

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. George Eliot

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. Aristotle

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. B. R. Ambedkar

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences. Eckhart Tolle

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. John Locke

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. Roger Caras

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain

I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. Darren Aronofsky

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. Meister Eckhart

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan

Life is a work in progress. Jeff Rich

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now. Audre Lorde

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Berthold Auerbach

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. Thomas Jefferson

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. Henry Miller

The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in. Paris Hilton

Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre. Lillian Russell

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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. Albert Camus

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash. Ruth Ann Minner

Everything has been figured out, except how to live. Jean-Paul Sartre

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random. Steve Jobs

I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life. Yayoi Kusama

It is not length of life, but depth of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. D. H. Lawrence

No water, no life. No blue, no green. Sylvia Earle

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful. Rashida Jones

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical. Julius Erving

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. Maya Angelou

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days. Robert Hall

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. Shania Twain

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person. Leo Tolstoy

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. Shakuntala Devi

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes

I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side. Rashida Jones

I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with. Sara Paretsky

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. Albert Schweitzer

Life is hard, but there are moments, sometimes hours - and, if you're really lucky, full days - where everything feels just right. Andy Grammer

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. Mark Twain

My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure. Brian Blessed

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life. Jimmy Dean

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life. Wayne Dyer

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me. Oprah Winfrey

Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair. Rick Warren

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way. Dalai Lama

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. Henry Ward Beecher

Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse. H. P. Lovecraft

Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals. Kallam Anji Reddy

I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth. Stephen Hawking

I thank God that I'm a product of my parents. That they infected me with their inspirational and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I'm grateful that I know where I come from. Shakira

It doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to. Stephen Curry

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam


Life is not an exact science, it is an art. Samuel Butler

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories. Ariana Grande

No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments. Regina Brett

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. Eddie Cantor

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. Christopher McCandless

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. Sophia Loren

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep. William Shakespeare

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life. W. E. B. Du Bois

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver

I look at where I'm at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life. Kendrick Lamar

I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling. Serena Williams

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard

Life is largely a matter of expectation. Horace

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. Jim Henson

My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two. Anne F. Beiler

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. Joseph Addison

Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche

Adopting a really positive attitude can work wonders to adding years to your life, a spring to your step, a sparkle to your eye, and all of that. Christie Brinkley

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. William Alexander

High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I'll take with me the rest of my life. Giancarlo Stanton

I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community. Magic Johnson

I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life. Manny Pacquiao

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. Lao Tzu

Life is half spent before we know what it is. George Herbert

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. Samuel Smiles

My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about. Kelly Wearstler

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. Dorothea Lange

The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day. Jeremy Luke

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. Leo Tolstoy

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations. Tom Brady

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up. Les Brown

As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life. Amy Poehler

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. Jorge Luis Borges

Each person must live their life as a model for others. Rosa Parks

Hiding, secrets, and not being able to be yourself is one of the worst things ever for a person. It gives you low self-esteem. You never get to reach that peak in your life. You should always be able to be yourself and be proud of yourself. Grace Jones

I have to say I have an amazing therapist. She's my best friend for life. She's taught me how to balance everything out. Nikki Bella

I'm in love with red. I think it's such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. It's power, there's no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don't. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. They're all magic. Bryan Batt

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. Morihei Ueshiba

Life well spent is long. Leonardo da Vinci

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. Maya Angelou

Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life. Joni Eareckson Tada

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once. Abraham Cahan

The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short. Homaro Cantu

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. John Wayne

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. Eleanor Roosevelt

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe. Wayne Dyer

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive. Joan Rivers

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. Corazon Aquino

It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave. Tupac Shakur

Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome. Danny Meyer

Life is too short for long-term grudges. Elon Musk

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Plato

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. Tony Robbins

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. Arnold H. Glasow

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters. Audrey Hepburn

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. William Shakespeare

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Paulo Coelho

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. Viktor E. Frankl

Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most. Ben Shapiro

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Jesus Christ

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. Rabindranath Tagore

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. Bradley Whitford

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. George Sand

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. Oscar Wilde

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me. Anne Hathaway

No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother. Michael Franti


Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. Woody Allen

The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn. David Russell

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why. William Barclay

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can. Will Rogers

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. Albert Einstein

Art is the proper task of life. Friedrich Nietzsche

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent. Billy Graham

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. Muhammad Ali

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. Jackson Pollock

I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life. Karen Salmansohn

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children. Sitting Bull

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. Ashley Smith

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. Rebecca West

My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up, and everyone I know is like, 'LOL JK best long-running practical joke ever', so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything. Tavi Gevinson

People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes. Ralph Baer

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.' Billy Graham

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. Thomas Hobbes

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come. Swami Sivananda

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. Willie Nelson

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. Elizabeth Gaskell

City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make meetings, trying to make ends meet, trying to meet deadlines, trying to get kids to and from activities. There aren't enough hours in the day for all this business. Rebecca Pidgeon

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. Jean de La Fontaine

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity. Chris Rock

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman. Diane von Furstenberg

It's never too late in life to have a genuine adventure. Robert Kurson

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. Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. John W. Gardner

Money can't buy life. Bob Marley

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Albert Einstein

Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life. Teri Garr

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. Amelia Earhart

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. Rumi

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. Friedrich Nietzsche

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. Vernon Howard

Automobiles have always been part of my life, and I'm sure they always will be. What is it about them that moves me? The sound of a great engine, the unity and uniqueness of an automobile's engineering and coachwork, the history of the company and the car, and, of course, the sheer beauty of the thing. Edward Herrmann

Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line. Ray Lewis

He not busy being born is busy dying. Bob Dylan

I have moments where I feel incredibly ugly or fat, and it sucks, you know? I'll usually try to keep a positive attitude because I'm really so grateful for where I am and the life I get to live, but I definitely have to work hard not to feel insecure. Charlotte McKinney

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon. Emil Zatopek

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Life moves so fast. You gotta document the good times, man. Big Boi

My life is mine to remember. Drake

Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Menachem Begin

The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be. Oprah Winfrey

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character. Arnold Schwarzenegger

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone. Reba McEntire

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

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. Joseph Campbell

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

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time. Jean Paul

I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect. Walter Payton

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. Abraham Lincoln

In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. James E. Faust

Life has a higher end, than to be amused. William Ellery Channing

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. O. Henry

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. Immanuel Kant

Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen. Corin Nemec

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection. Henri Nouwen

There are no regrets in life, just lessons. Jennifer Aniston

Water is life, and clean water means health. Audrey Hepburn

With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that, I make no apologies. I do like to see the best in people, and when someone is nice to my face, I tend to believe them. Joyce Giraud

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


Coffee has always been a significant part of my life. For me, it's a chance to start my day and gather my thoughts - it's fuel for my creative process. Connor Franta

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. Mignon McLaughlin

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell

I want someone who is my partner in life. Who supports me, and I support her. I can share all my experiences in life with her, and she can share hers back with me. Not only do we love each other, but we accept, embrace, nurture, and care for each other. Tucker Max

It's fun to have a partner who understands your life and lets you be you. Kim Kardashian

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. Ernest Holmes

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

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars. Jack Kerouac

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. Lewis Carroll

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them. Jack Canfield

The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want. Chris Pine

There's a time in your life where you're not quite sure where you are. You think everything's perfect, but it's not perfect... Then one day you wake up and you can't quite picture yourself in the situation you're in. But the secret is, if you can picture yourself doing anything in life, you can do it. Tom DeLonge

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. Iris Murdoch

You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common. Lyle Lovett

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low. John Wooden

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. Lyman Abbott

I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily. Lil' Kim

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. Isabel Allende

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. Margaret J. Wheatley

Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important. Nev Schulman

Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down. Vanessa Paradis

Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain! Louis Tomlinson

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That's my life motto. Demi Lovato

Schools reward their students for a combination of inspirational, perseverance, and hard work - in the classroom and on the playing fields. But these metrics don't help kids understand that great grades are not a pass for a great life. Steve Blank

The greatest pleasure of life is love. Euripides

The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one. Edward Fitzgerald

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. Barbara Kingsolver

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. William James

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. Ayn Rand

Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come. Henri Nouwen

Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end. Tom Hiddleston

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center. Seamus Heaney

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed. Kanye West

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. Earl Nightingale

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. Helen Keller

Life itself is the proper binge. Julia Child

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring. Prince William

Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life. Ravi Zacharias

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. Martin Luther King, Jr.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. John Henry Newman

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

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Samuel Ullman

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. Seneca

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. Vince Lombardi

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. B. F. Skinner

I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are. Diane von Furstenberg

It's amazing. Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it. Lindsey Vonn

Life is a lively process of becoming. Douglas MacArthur

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet. Sarah Louise Delany

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. Khalil Gibran

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life. John F. Kennedy

Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue. Sally Ride

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.' Max Lucado

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

We have a lot of people that are oppressed. We have a lot of people that aren't treated equally, aren't given equal opportunities. Police brutality is a huge thing that needs to be addressed. There are a lot of issues that need to be talked about, need to be brought to life, and we need to fix those. Colin Kaepernick

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. Steve Jobs

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life. Arthur Rubinstein

I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic. Harry Houdini

I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea. Rafael Nadal

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become. Molly Ringwald

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

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time. Don Miguel Ruiz

Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things. Kenneth Branagh

My whole life is about winning. I don't lose often. I almost never lose. Donald Trump

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Steve Jobs

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Bertrand Russell

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. Myles Munroe

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor. William Cowper

While we are postponing, life speeds by. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. George Bernard Shaw

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard


Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man. Robert Baden-Powell

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

If you don't embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won't be able to live a happy life. Ciara

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Oscar Wilde

Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference. Amisha Patel

Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty. Zoe Foster Blake

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. Steve Jobs

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. Dalai Lama

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. Audrey Hepburn

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. Albert Schweitzer

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. Buddha

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. Steve Jobs

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family. Madonna Ciccone

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 take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. Carl Jung

Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life. Kay Granger

I love life. There's so much to learn and see all the time, and nothing nicer for me than to wake up, and the sky is blue. Pattie Boyd

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing. Langston Hughes

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about. Rollo May

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. Charles M. Schulz

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' Martin Luther King, Jr.

My son has been the best thing that has happened in my life. He has been amazing, and he is truly heaven-sent. And so, I just feel all that love. Ciara

Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life. Andrew J. Bernstein

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity. Lewis Grizzard

The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it. Jennifer Love Hewitt

Unbeing dead isn't being alive. e. e. cummings

Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gandhi

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Carl Sandburg

Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who's looking back at you. And you can only do that if you're being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life. Aaron Rodgers

Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc. N. R. Narayana Murthy

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Stephen Hawking

I love life because what more is there? Anthony Hopkins

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one. John Lennon

Life changes when you have a child, when you have your own family. You become more careful about what you do. You're not going to be out late, going out to clubs, hanging out with your friends. You're going to be at home, taking care of your daughter, playing with her. Paul Pierce

Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life. Avril Lavigne

Life's more amusing than we thought. Andrew Lang

My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly. Pancho Villa

Relax! Life is beautiful! David L. Wolper

The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick. P. T. Barnum

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. Eminem

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. Golda Meir

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Tecumseh

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is more to life than increasing its speed. Mahatma Gandhi

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. William Blake

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms. Sterling K. Brown

How sweet it is! Jackie Gleason

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. Grandma Moses

I'm really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me. Rihanna

Life changes so quickly. feeling grateful to be around such wonderful people to strengthen and grow with. Riley Keough

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. Charles Lindbergh

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years. Paul Merton

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life. Eckhart Tolle

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

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. William Morris

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships. Stephen Covey

When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others. Cara Delevingne


A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. Jackie Robinson

Being confident is the key to life. Don't be afraid to be you! I'm super different from a lot of kids my age with style and personality, and I'm OK with it. And if you are OK with it, everyone else will be, too. Just be yourself. Leo Howard

First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life. Oksana Baiul

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun. Charles R. Swindoll

I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life. Vanessa Minnillo

It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job. Chris Kyle

Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you are and loving who and what you are. Kelly McGillis

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas A. Edison

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. Marie Curie

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life. Billie Jean King

The love of husband and wife, which is creative of new human life, is a marvellously personal sharing in the creative love of God who brings into being the eternal soul that comes to every human being with the gift of human life. Vincent Nichols

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

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

You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter. Alison Jackson

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. Walter Anderson

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. Solomon Ortiz

Honestly, I feel like everything in life happens for a reason, and my son has been the greatest gift that God has given me in my life and been the most game-changing thing that's happened to my life, in a necessary way. Ciara

I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times. Kimberly Elise

I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears. Heidi Klum

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch

Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour. Carolina Herrera

Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. Joel Osteen

My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier. Anthony Hopkins

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. John Updike

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. Confucius

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities. Benjamin E. Mays

True life is lived when tiny changes occur. Leo Tolstoy

When you are grateful - when you can see what you have - you unlock blessings to flow in your life. Suze Orman

Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia does. It's a crime. It's an absolute evil. Pope Francis

Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth. Malcolm X

Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life. Adam Gopnik

I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself. Bobby Brown

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau

I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do. J. R. Martinez

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. Charlie Chaplin

Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing. Eric Davis

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Ludwig van Beethoven

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. Jean Anouilh

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life. Bill Gates

The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion. Watkin Tudor Jones

Time is long but life is short. Stevie Wonder

Wellness is not a 'medical fix' but a way of living - a lifestyle sensitive and responsive to all the dimensions of body, mind, and spirit, an approach to life we each design to achieve our highest potential for well-being now and forever. Greg Anderson

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Becoming a father increases your capacity for love and your level of patience. It opens up another door in a person - a door which you may not even have known was there. That's what I feel with my son. There's suddenly another level of love that expands. My son is my greatest joy, out of everything in my life. Kyle MacLachlan

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. John Barth

I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter's tough, but spring's coming. I believe that there's a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better. Steve Southerland

I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup. Drew Barrymore

It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices. Kirk Cameron

Life is a DNA software system. Craig Venter

Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it. Pilou Asbaek

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. Thomas Merton

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 as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Steve Jobs

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life. Yoko Ono

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. Bruce Lee

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability. Sharron Angle


We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again. Sheena Easton

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. Theodor Adorno

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. Walt Disney

Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're too special. Ariana Grande

God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease. Bernie Siegel

I feel like I'm really blessed and lucky that I have a very good social life outside of the gym, and I have a really amazing family. My parents are so supportive. I have a younger brother and two younger sisters, and they're really awesome. So I feel like I get the best of both worlds. Aly Raisman

If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs. John Clare

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out. Serena Williams

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed. Corita Kent

Life is too short to be scared and not take risks. I'd rather be the person that's like, 'I messed up,' than, 'I wish I did that.' Justine Skye

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. Jean Paul

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. Robert Louis Stevenson

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet. Emily Dickinson

The only disability in life is a bad attitude. Scott Hamilton

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too. Will Smith

Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility. Anne Hathaway

America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger. Barack Obama

Be willing to step outside your comfort zone once in a while; take the risks in life that seem worth taking. The ride might not be as predictable if you'd just planted your feet and stayed put, but it will be a heck of a lot more interesting. Edward Whitacre, Jr.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. James Allen