Life Quotes

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.

Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.