Life Quotes

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.