life quotes

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

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

Life is short, the art long.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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

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

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

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

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Passions are the gales of life.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

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

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

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

I live in a crazy time.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

The 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.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

The honor of a nation is its life.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

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.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove – there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and Ladbroke Grove. It has come up a lot since I started Virgin more than 40 years ago, but there is so much character.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Life is wasted on the living.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.