life quotes

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you’re gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It’s yours. Seize your space.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

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

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

There is no wealth but life.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Children make your life important.

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

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are 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.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It’s commenting or observing or twisting life.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.