life quotes

This is not a bad life.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

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

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

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

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

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

We 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.

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.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

My life is my argument.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

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

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

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

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

One 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.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

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

One 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.

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.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

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

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

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

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.