Top 100 Life Quotes

1

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

2

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

3

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

4

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

It's the imperfections that make things beautiful.5

It's the imperfections that make things beautiful.

6

In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.7

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

8

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

9

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

10

There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.

11

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

12

Be encouraged. Stay on your hustle. You can't fail until u quit.

13

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

14

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

15

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

16

The only real argument against the Bible is an unholy life. When a man argues against the Word of God, follow him home, and see if you cannot discover the reason of his enmity to the Word of the Lord. It lies in some sort of sin.

17

If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.

18

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.

19

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.

20

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.

21

[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

22

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

23

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

24

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.

25

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do - it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

26

When you ask for patience, what you get is a line at the bank. In other words, life gives you the people, places, and situations that are going to allow you to once and for all develop what it is you need.

27

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

28

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

29

Today I will stop trying to control my relationships. I will participate at a reasonable level and let the other person do the same. I can let go, knowing that the relationship will find its own life-or not-and that I don't have to do all the work, only my share.

30

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

31

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but ...32

Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.

33

If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell and people could be going to hell—or not getting eternal life or whatever—and you think that, well, it’s not really worth telling them this because it would make it socially awkward. . . . How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize? How much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?

34

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure.

35

I would challenge anybody in their darkest moment to write what they're grateful for, even stupid little things like the green grass that made them feel good, the friendly conversation they had with somebody on an alevator. You start to realize how rich you are.

36

Life is a game and true love is a trophy.

37

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union

38

In my life there is an infinite supply of love, it is in exhaustible, I can never use it all in this lifetime so I don't have to be sparing with it!

39

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

40

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.

41

I was always looking to be entertained. We lead such full lives and a lot of us don't lead very pleasant lives and don't like what we do... My dad worked his whole life as a salesman and that wasn't what he really wanted to do. He looked forward to two weeks vacation every year and he used to say to me, 'Whatever you do, make sure you do something you really like so you don't just have your vacation to look forward to.' And I love movies.

42

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change

43

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life

44

Simplify, simplify, simplify.

45

No one can save me. No one can live my life for me. It is mine for better or for worse. If I am wise, I shall begin to-day by the simplest and most natural of all processes to build my own truer and better world from within.

46

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

47

It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.

48

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

49

Although himself frequently a target of guerrilla decontextualization, a major part of the meaning of Michael Jackson's life was to help balance the accumulation of horrors with something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.

50

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

51

Sweet is a grief well ended.

52

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.

53

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

54

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

55

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

56

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

57

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

58

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

59

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

60

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

61

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

62

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

63

I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced.

64

Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical.

65

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

66

A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body.

67

Passions are the gales of life.

68

Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

69

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

70

Great artists have no country.

71

Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain: I know not which is sweeter, no, not I. Love, art thou sweet? then bitter death must be: Love, thou art bitter; sweet is death to me. O Love, if death be sweeter, let me die. ... I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow! let me die.

72

So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.

73

Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.

74

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

75

Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

76

O Love, O great god Love, what have I done, That thou shouldst hunger so after my death? My heart is harmless as my life's first day: Seek out some false fair woman, and plague her Till her tears even as my tears fill her bed.

77

Within walking distance of any spot on Earth there's probably more than enough mystery to investigate in a lifetime.

78

Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.

79

NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

80

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

81

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

82

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

83

From an endless dream we have come. In an endless dream we are living. To an endless dream we shall return.

84

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

85

I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

86

Despite everything I've achieved in my life, the culinary awards, the military commendations, the honorary degrees, I have never, ever lost sight of what's truly important. The thing that gives meaning to these triumphs. Someone to share them with. A companion. A help mate. A wife.

87

A committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because conditions are never exactly right. Indecision limits The Almighty and His ability to perform miracles in your life. He has put the vision in you - proceed! To wait, to wonder, to doubt, to be indecisive is to disobey God.

88

I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.

89

I think as a human being, as a mother, as someone who works internationally, I needed desperately to know a man like Louis Zamperini in my life, to know that there is hope.

90

Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

91

Don't go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are.

92

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

93

Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.

94

Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.

95

A Prayer of Anselm My God, I pray that I may so know you and love you that I may rejoice in you. And if I may not do so fully in this life let me go steadily on to the day when I come to that fullness . . . Let me receive That which you promised through your truth, that my joy may be full.

96

I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if you think you're going to have those odd moments again, then it makes life wonderful and have a meaning.

97

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

98

The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.

99

In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort, to make work as near pleasure as it can be.

100

I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the ‘dark ages’!

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