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

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

It’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.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

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.

My life is my argument.

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

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

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

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

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

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.