Top 100 Life Quotes

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beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.

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The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

3

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

4

The object of Art is to give life a shape.

5

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

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The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

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And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

8

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

9

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

10

Experience is the teacher of all things.

11

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

12

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

13

Don't be content in your life just to do no wrong, be prepared every day to try and do some good.

14

When people know they are created with a purpose, and not here by accident, it is life-changing.

15

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

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To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

17

Remember this: Anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.

18

What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.

19

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

20

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

21

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

22

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

23

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

24

It's never been about trying to look well-behaved. It's just how I am. I guess it's a weird thing to be 19 and not ever have been drunk, but for me, it just feels normal because I don't really know any other way. I don't know if I'd be comfortable getting wasted and not knowing what I've said. That doesn't mean when I'm older I won't have a glass of wine. I just don't think it's such a strange thing for me not to be wasted all the time.

25

giving up doesn't always mean your weak sometimes your just strong enough to let go

26

There is a certain hidden mediocrity in those who are stationed above us in life, an ability to take liberties in their pursuit of pleasures and diversions, without injuring the honor and respect we owe to them.

27

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

28

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

29

Working gets in the way of living.

30

We often despise what is most useful to us.

31

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

32

A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another, yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life's endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates life's beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.

33

Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?

34

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.

35

A word in season is most precious.

36

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

37

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

38

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

39

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

40

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

41

The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.

42

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

43

I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.

44

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

45

I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play.

46

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

47

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will.

48

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

49

When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up and return to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you're out of harmony with intention.

50

Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.

51

Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.

52

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

53

What good is strength if you have no sense?

54

But such is life, the silliest proverbs prove to be true, and when a man thinks, now it's all right, it's not all right by a longshot. Man proposes, God disposes, and there's always that last straw to break the camel's back.

55

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.

56

Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.

57

Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind, One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea, One in many, O broken and blind, One as the waves are at one with the sea! Ay! when life seems scattered apart, Darkens, ends as a tale that is told, One, we are one, O heart of my heart, One, still one, while the world grows old.

58

Your dreamers may dream it The shadow of a dream, Your sages may deem it A bubble on the stream; Yet our kingdom draweth nigher With each dawn and every day, Through the earthquake and the fire Love will find out the way.

59

ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .

60

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

61

DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed . . . deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life.

62

Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).

63

I cannot say to be glad or not glad to be on Everest. It is my life. I have opportunity to be here, so I am here.

64

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

65

See, the ‘small stuff’ is what makes up the larger picture of our lives. Many people are like you, young man. But their perspective is distorted. They ignore ‘small stuff,’ claiming to have an eye on the bigger picture, never understanding that the bigger picture is composed of nothing more than-are you ready?- ‘small stuff’.

66

Four Rules For Life Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results.

67

We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.

68

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.

69

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

70

What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.

71

Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?

72

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

73

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

74

So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it. I say Live, Live because of the sun, the dream, the excitable gift.

75

life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.

76

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

77

For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . . until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story.

78

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.

79

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

80

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

81

Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.

82

On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough.

83

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

84

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

85

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

86

The quality of life is determined by its activities.

87

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

88

"With my desire and drive, I definitely wasn't normal. Normal people can be happy with a regular life. I was different. I felt there was more to life than plodding through a normal existence. I'd always been impressed by stories of greatness and power. I wanted to do something special, to be recognized as the best. I saw bodybuilding as the vehicle that would take me to the top, and I put all my energy into it.

89

No one lives on the top of the mountain. It's fine to go there occasionally -for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That's where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the plowing and the work is done. That's where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks.

90

Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

91

We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams... Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.

92

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

93

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

94

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

95

Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.

96

Life is only worth-while through the eyes of a believer.

97

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

98

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

99

The greatest attribute of God is Love. The Tree of Life is located in the very depth of our soul. The most perfect and abundant fruit that grows and ripens is Life giving Love; it is the great healing force in the world. Love never fails to meet every demand of the human heart. The Divine principal of Love may be used to eliminate every sorrow, infirmity, in-harmony, ignorance and all mistakes of mankind. Love is God; eternal, limitless, changeless, infinite. It is the pulse of the world, the heartbeat of the Universe.

100

We've got to be able to distinguish between dangerous individuals who need to be incapacitated and incarcerated versus young people who are in an environment in which they are adapting, but if given different opportunities, a different vision of life, could be thriving the way we are. That's what strikes me. There but for the grace of God. And that, I think, is something that we all have to think about.

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