What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
Charlie ChaplinThere are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel JohnsonThe worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Aldous HuxleyBe content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao TzuI don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
Isaac AsimovLife being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
John RuskinOnce you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.
Maya AngelouWhy are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?
Woody AllenTake care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Robert FrostMindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
Thich Nhat HanhKeep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar WildeNothing is worth more than this day.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.
Mr. TIt is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Oscar WildeI’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.
Michelle ObamaWe conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
Blaise PascalI can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
John D. RockefellerBlessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Jesus ChristLife is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
Lou HoltzHe who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad AliYou just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘
RihannaYou have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Paulo CoelhoLife is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.
Jackie RobinsonThis is not a bad life.
Stephen KingThe 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.
Colin PowellI want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.
Nipsey HussleWe learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.
Michelle ObamaOnce you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
Tennessee WilliamsTo not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.
Robert GreeneI’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.
Christopher HitchensThere is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
Jack LondonJust as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
BuddhaIf you desire many things, many things will seem few.
Benjamin FranklinChrist has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its sting. By virtue of Christ’s rising again, nothing any longer kills inevitably, but everything is capable of becoming the blessed touch of the divine hands, the blessed influence of the will of God upon our lives.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinLife belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAs is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIf my life was a movie, no one would believe it.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerFoolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Thomas CarlyleThe loss of life will be irreplaceable.
Dan QuayleMy greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.
Maya AngelouMan’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan PoeGod made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.
Joel OsteenLiving big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
Fidel CastroIf he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
Martin LutherIt is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Francis BaconLife 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.
Virginia WoolfTrue wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
SocratesOne looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl JungWe have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
Ronald ReaganIn a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinLife must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor RooseveltIf you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.
Edmund HillaryDelhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.
Virat KohliI’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.
Lady GagaA chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
William JamesParting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
Emily DickinsonI’ve been blessed in that regard through and through. So I’m just thankful for this opportunity to play the game that I love and share that with the world.
Stephen CurryAll our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.
Charles SpurgeonAlcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw