Quotes About Life

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it

Adventure is the essence of life.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

Life's more amusing than we thought.

The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.

I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me.

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of infinitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.

Life is a yo-yo, and mankind ties knots in the string

Human life must be some form of mistake

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

All that I really have to recount are observations and notes made during the course of my life as a painter. I ask those who will have the patience to read these notes the indulgence usually granted to the writings of painters