Quotes About Life

This is life. It's not a dress rehearsal. If we don't do this now, we may as well start planning our own funerals.

To live is better than not to live. Even for a few hours, in the company of friends.

There is no preparation for a good death but a good life.

Consider the world as an abode where in you have dropped down for an hour, then you have got to leave it and go ahead; or (suppose it is) like the wealth which you lay hands upon in a dream and become over-joyed and glad. Then you wake up to find yourself empty handed.

Life is great if properly viewed in any aspect; it is mainly great when viewed in connection with the world to come.

While we seek to fill up life in a way that will best secure the ends of our existence here, our whole plan and course of action should be such as will not hinder but serve our preparation for a future world.

When life has been well spent; when there is a conscience without reproach; when there is faith in the Saviour; when there is a well-founded hope of heaven, there can be nothing that should disquiet us.

Yes, it is a truth that for a good man, honored, beloved, useful, with all around him that God ever gives to His children here; nay, with all that God could give him of earth, it would be " gain " to die. Heaven is a better, a happier, a more desirable world than this is or can be.

One of the best maxims in determining our course in life is, to select, at the outset, that in which virtue and principle will be least likely to be put to a test, and in which, from the nature of the calling, a man may bring around him such associations and influences as will be an auxiliary in keeping him in the path of virtue.

Life, if we would mark it, is made up of thousands of suggestions from some unseen quarter, prompting us to duty; starting some thought of what is wise and right and just and good; inclining us to thoughtfulness, to meditation, to prayer; making the soul dissatisfied with its present course, and drawing it along in the path of duty, benevolence, and peace.

This is the way that I think about my life, and I hope that you'll think of your life too. You should think about your life hoping that there will be many moments in it about which you can say; There is no place I'd rather be, there is no thing I'd rather be doing, there is nobody I'd rather be with, & this I will remember well.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

It's no use reminding yourself daily that you are mortal: it will be brought home to you soon enough.

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.