Quotes About Life

Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.

The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives...

What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.

I am only afraid of dying; not of being dead.

There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the soul.

A man's highest happiness is found in the bestowal of benefits on those he loves; love finds its most natural and spontaneous expression in giving.  The man who has nothing to give cannot fill his place as a husband or father, as a citizen, or as a man.  It is in the use of material things that a man finds full life for his body, develops his mind, and unfolds his soul.  It is therefore of supreme importance to him that he should be rich.

Una semilla que cae sobre la tierra estalla en actividad, y en el acto de vivir produce cien semillas más. La vida, al vivir, se multiplica a sí misma; está por siempre haciéndose más. Así debe hacer si quiere continuar existiendo.

The other attitude makes man like a flowing spring. Power comes out from the center of him. He has within him a well of water springing up into everlasting life, he radiates force; he is felt by his environment.

real life means the complete expression of all that man can give forth through body, mind, and soul.

The purpose of life for us is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth.

Hay tres motivos por los cuales vivimos: vivimos para el cuerpo, vivimos para la mente, y vivimos para el alma. 

Your part is to intelligently formulate your desire for the things which make for a larger life and to get these desires arranged into a coherent whole.

A person's right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual and physical unfolding -- in other words, his right to be rich.

That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is Life, seeking fuller expression.

I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.

I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!

I don't know about you, but I only have one life, and I don't want to spend it in a sewer of injustice.

She knows very well that the way to find happiness in this world is not to hate your life but to somehow learn how to accept your life. Take pride in your work, whatever it is. Derive whatever pleasure you can from whatever surrounds you—the sky, the people you like, the light falling on the brick wall.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.