Life Quotes

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

A human life is a schooling for eternity.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.