Quotes About Life

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise.

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have life itself.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations.

He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't have nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment of birth every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering. Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.

Those who dont love themselves as they are rarely love life either.

Into each life some rain must fall.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

I love inspiring people, and if I can make a difference in one person's life, then that's success for me!

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

I come to you with only Karate, Empty Hands. I have no weapons, but should I be forced to defend myself, my principles, or my honor, should it be a matter of life or death, of right or wrong, then here are my weapons, Karate, my Empty Hands.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.