Quotes About Life

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

I'm tired of all this isolation. I'm tired of this triviality of life. I want real human emotion. I want to feel the natural spontaneity of life, the beautiful randomness and rawness that is life. I want to see you and I want you to see me and I want to bask in that moment of humility and intimacy and the acknowledgement of your dignity and my humanity, even if it is for a second. That'll be enough.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

'While there is life, there's hope,' he cried; 'Then why such haste?' so groaned and died

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... Just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps 'til the legend, 'over steep ways to the stars,' fulfills self.

I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.

You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

My garden, like my life, seems to me every year to want correction and require alternation.

You can like the life you're living, you can live the life you like. you can even marry harry, but mess around with ike and that's good, isn't it grand? isn't it great? isn't it swell? in fifty years or so, it's gonna change you know, but oh it's heaven now a days.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more

Where is the Life we have lost in living?