Quotes About Life

Change your perspective. It could change your life.

The Constitution—the Bill of Rights in particular—was filled with "majestic generalities" precisely so that federal courts could breathe life into them as the reality of America changed.

I should like my epitaph to say, "He helped people see God in the ordinary things of life, and he made children laugh.

Courtesy is one's own affair, but decency is a debt to life

Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his or Fritz's cooking was an insult. But corned beef hash was one of life's toughest problems, never yet solved by anyone.

everything from war to picnics depends on the weather, as Wolfe remarked

Courtesy is one's own affair, but decency is a debt to life. You

Death is not a joke.

Courtesy is one's own affair, but decency is a debt to life.

Sai benissimo in cosa consista la vita, è fatta di qualità umane, tra le quali c'è un controllo dignitoso e intelligente degli appetiti che condividiamo con i cani. Un uomo non divora una carcassa o ulula su una collina dall'alba al tramonto; mangia cibo ben cucinato, se può permetterselo, e in quantità moderata, e adatta con saggezza i propri ardori alla convenienza.

The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized. You

far as life falls short of perfection it is more fun outside the grave than in it.

immigrants are artists because they create a life, a future, from nothing but a dream.

What I still ask for daily - for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

We crave nothing less that the perfect story; And while we chatter or listen all our lives to a din of craving – jokes, anecdotes, novels, dreams, films, plays, songs, half the words of our days – We are satisfied only by the one short tale we feel to be true; History is the will of a just God who knows us.

Women then very seldom wore watches. They did their chores till the chores were finished or they fell over dead, whichever came first.

The way my life goes, I can't tell if there are pits in my cherries or cherries among my pits, philosophically speaking.

If you are waiting until you are ready, you are using the wrong criteria to change your life.

The way you spend your time defines your life.

the force of love will change your life so fast that you will scarcely believe it!

You might think, 'I've got time to follow my dreams.' You don't have time. Life is short. The current life expectancy is 24,869 days. While some of us will live more days and some fewer, either way you have only a precious number of days to live this life, and so you do not have time to put off your dreams. It is now or never. If you don't do it now, you will keep putting it off, and you'll never do it. The time is now!

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

Life is simple. Your life is made up of only two kinds of things – positive things and negative things.