Quotes About Life

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a pretty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

What I'm concerned about is the people who don't dwell on the meaninglessness of their lives, or the meaningfulness of it-who just pursue mindless entertainment.

Why isn't my life like a situation comedy? Why don't I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do but drop by and instigate wacky adventures? Why aren't my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms? Why don't my friends demonstrate heartfelt concern for my well being when I have problems? ...I gotta get my life some writers.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortunes.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

Happiness keeps you sweet, sorrows keep you human, life keeps you humble, success keeps you glowing, but only God keeps you going.

The greatest work of art created first by god and then by man, is the creation of life. The whole process is an amazing art in itself. The fact that it takes two artists, man and woman, each bringing their own parts of a pallet to create a work of art that not only has a piece of both artists but is also a living, breathing, ever-changing, piece of art with an identity of its own.

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Dont ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.

Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.