Life Quotes

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.

What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.