Quotes About Life

The gods sustain and guide all their works.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

Wherever a man lives, he may live well.

Death--a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.

Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.

As if you had died and your life had extended only to this present moment, use the surplus that is left to you to live from this time onward according to nature.

Consider that as the heaps of sand piled on one another hide the former sands, so in life the events that go before are soon covered by those that come after.

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful – and hence neither good nor bad.

Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.

Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it. Small as the greatest renown, passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead.

He (God) remembers that we are but shadows and dust, therefore what we do in this life echoes in eternity.

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

No man can escape his destiny, the next inquiry being how he may best live the time that he has to live.

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life -- there, if one must speak out, the real man.

You can pass your life in an equable flow of happiness if you can follow the right way and think and act in the right way.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

The act of dying is also one of the acts of life.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.