Quotes About Life

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life.

It's not the men in my life that counts--it's the life in my men.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.

This secret spoke Life herself unto me: Behold, said she, I am that which must ever surpass itself.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world.

My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Life works out - but not as you expect it.

Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

Christianity is a world that is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there a rumor going around the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Think P.I.G. - thats my motto. P stands for Persistence, I stands for Integrity, and G stands for Guts. These are the ingredients for a successful business and a successful life.

How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work for it.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.