We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.
Steve JobsI pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.
Abraham LincolnThe drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.
Taylor SwiftAll that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
Jean-Paul SartreWe think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.
Stephen HawkingIt’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.
Joyce MeyerOne is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.
Jean-Paul SartreWhat life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHealth is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
BuddhaSo thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
Henry David ThoreauRivers, ponds, lakes and streams – they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do – they all contain truths.
Muhammad AliOn life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Alexander PopeI think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David ThoreauThe day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaOne always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.
Jean-Paul SartreDeath is just life’s next big adventure.
J. K. RowlingMy favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
Steve JobsWhether for life or death, do your own work well.
John RuskinOne day it will be over, and I don’t care.
Karl LagerfeldEnlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.
Thich Nhat HanhWhen people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.
Mark ZuckerbergMan’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan PoeWe do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiLife is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
Isaac AsimovThe greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother TeresaFor this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
Jimmy CarterI think Bible principles are principles for life.
Joel OsteenLife loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘
Maya AngelouOur words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.
Joyce MeyerSome may never live, but the crazy never die.
Hunter S. ThompsonMy definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
Taylor SwiftLife’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
HippocratesMost of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Henry David ThoreauYour joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.
Joyce MeyerLife is a lively process of becoming.
Douglas MacArthurNo one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.
Billy GrahamOne can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar WildeDeath is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheYour life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.
Wayne DyerThe compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
F. Scott FitzgeraldMy books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark TwainMan needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Carl JungCourage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia EarhartEverybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Marcus Tullius CiceroA word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
Emily DickinsonA useless life is an early death.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIn war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston ChurchillIf I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
Angelina JolieI always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Walt DisneyForty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Hosea BallouThe figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert FrostThe feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.
Kurt VonnegutScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel KantLife 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 EmersonDost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin FranklinThere is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
Henry David Thoreau