life quotes

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

Death is a fearful thing.

Life is a song to me.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

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

Life is our dictionary.

Our 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.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

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

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

So 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.

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.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

Most 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.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

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

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

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

My life has been very full.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.