Life Quotes

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.

Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.