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Quotes About Life

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
~ Joseph Campbell
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
~ Stephen R Covey
It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
~ Mark Twain
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
~ Joseph Campbell
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Who knows what death is? Maybe life is nothing more than a beam of light passing slowly over our changing faces.
~ Unknown
All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to that moment.
~ Richard Bach
We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life.
~ Drew Barrymore
I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.
~ William Orville Douglas
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
~ William Blake
In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable we eventually learn that here, in this life, all symphonies remain unfinished.
~ Karl Rahner
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
~ Shirley MacLaine
Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
~ Keri Russell
The warrior's approach is to say yes to life: yea to it all.
~ Joseph Campbell
For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.
~ Dale Carnegie
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
~ Crowfoot
We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.
~ Ann Landers
Life is a contradiction at times - as are we.
~ Unknown
I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.
~ Angelina Jolie
You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.
~ Ronald Reagan
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
~ Unknown
One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.
~ Unknown
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
~ Anatole France
Without discipline, there's no life at all.
~ Unknown