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Quotes About Life

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
~ Seneca
We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
~ Gary Ryan Blair
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
~ Seneca
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
~ Horace
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
~ Helen Keller
Ignorance is the peace of life.
~ Proverb
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isnt it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am askedas I am surprisingly oftenwhy I bother to get up in the mornings.
~ Richard Dawkins
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
~ Unknown
In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually.
~ Victor Hugo
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
~ Douglas Adams
Pain does not have a moral value. Drugs do not have a moral value. Life is good... to be cherished, promoted and supported. We, as physicians, should not be moralizing about pain or its treatments.
~ Unknown
The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
~ Charlie Brown
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief
~ Lionel Trilling
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs
~ James Allen
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song.
~ Charles Kingsley
When all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.
~ Mitch Albom
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
~ Mark Twain
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
~ Buddha
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
~ Jim Bouton
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
There are two good things in life freedom of thought and freedom of action.
~ William Somerset Maugham
So, often in the course Of life's few fleeting years, A single pleasure costs The soul a thousand tears.
~ Francis William Bourdillon
You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.
~ Johnny Depp