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Quotes About Life

This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
~ Mark Twain
Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
~ Ani DiFranco
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
~ Henry James
I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.
~ Chavela Vargas
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.
~ Emmet Fox
The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
~ Unknown
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
~ Havelock Ellis
You change your life by changing your heart.
~ John Porter
The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's own or real life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.
~ Unknown
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
~ William Somerset Maugham
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
~ Charles R Swindoll
Death is life in reverse.
~ Angelina Jolie
The question shouldn't be is there life after death but is there life before death...
~ Unknown
Live or die, But don't poison everything.
~ Anne Sexton
Life in the now, is gone tomorrow The only way to know is die Then to reveal its convenient lie.
~ Unknown
Im sure now that grieving and healing are the same thing sometimes, and magic and death are the same thing sometimes, and trusting and failing are the same thing sometimes.
~ Jorja Fox
Utter happiness is a fallacy. The best most of us can hope for is that occasional span of time which occurs at irregular lengths and intervals throughout our lives wherein for an all too ephemeral period, nothing in particular sucks about living.
~ Unknown
The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.
~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If creating life is art, then living and dying must be poetry.
~ Unknown
Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.
~ Edvard Munch
Do not fear death... only the unlived life. You don't have to live forever; You just have to live.
~ Natalie Babbitt
Thank God life outlives death.
~ Harriet McBryde Johnson