Life Quotes

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

A useless life is an early death.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Life itself is the proper binge.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.