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List of life quotes
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This is a list of life quotes
A good traveler
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu
A livingDon't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
A matter of waitingLife was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
Paulo Coelho
A vast practical jokeThere are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.
Herman Melville
A way of making a living
All theory
An adventureSecurity is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller
An experiment
Any idiotAny idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov
As a playLife must be lived as play.
Plato
Be regular and orderlyBe regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert
BelieveBelieve that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Beyond bothIgnorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Seneca
CourageA man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.
Lao Tzu
Day to day livingAny idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov
DeceptionLife is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
William Hazlitt
Divided into three termsLife is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
William Wordsworth
Don't lose itSometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
Steve Jobs
Don't waste timeIf you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. - Bruce Lee If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce Lee
Eating and livingOne should eat to live, not live to eat.
Moliere
Empty space
Even to liveSometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Seneca
Every creatureEvery creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau
Everything has been figured out
Fear and regretWe should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
Marilyn Monroe
Fear of deathEven death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Buddha
Finding peace
Funny thing about lifeIt's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham
Good lifeNot life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates
Good life
Great use of lifeThe great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James
Growing olderI don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
T. S. Eliot
Happy lifeA happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Bertrand Russell
I love life
ImmortalWhat we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pine
ImmortalityImmortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.
Arthur Miller
In earnestWhatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Charles Dickens
In three wordsIn three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
Indecency
It doesn't ceaseLife does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
It has meaning
It has no meaningLife has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is a complex matterI always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Walt Disney
It is a playLife's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Seneca
It is too short
It may become impossibleYou must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
Anton Chekhov
it repeats itselfHistory repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl Marx
It's our beliefsIt's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Tony Robbins
Keep learningAs long as you live, keep learning how to live.
Seneca
Keep smilingKeep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.
Marilyn Monroe
Learning how to liveWhile I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci
Length or depth?
Life
Life and mindLife isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
Eckhart Tolle
Life and thoughts
Life is a stormLife is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
Alexandre Dumas
Life is about movingLife is about moving, it's about change. And when things stop doing that they're dead.
Twyla Tharp
Life is pretty simpleLife is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Leonardo da Vinci
Live and learnLive as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
Living in harmonyHe who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Marcus Aurelius
Living mechanicallyBut better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
D. H. Lawrence
Living my lifeI want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
D. H. Lawrence
Making mistakesA life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Missing lifeSometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.
Nelson Mandela
MistakesI've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.
Muhammad Ali
Most perfectly aliveFor man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
D. H. Lawrence
My lifeI have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T. S. Eliot
My life
No oneNo one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
Euripides
One hour of timeA man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
One lifeThere is just one life for each of us: our own.
Euripides
Pain and lifeThere is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Oscar Wilde
Peace in your lifeYou find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
Eckhart Tolle
Perfection of characterPerfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
Marcus Aurelius
Pleasant lifeIt is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
Epicurus
Quiet livesThe good and the wise lead quiet lives.
Euripides
Raptute of livingOnce I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen Keller
Real living
RidiculousI realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
Arthur Miller
RisksYou have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Paulo Coelho
Series of changesLife is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu
Simplicity of lifeWe have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
Paulo Coelho
Succession of lessons Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Helen Keller
The beauty of lifeDwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
Marcus Aurelius
The best portionThe best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth
The best that we can doWhen we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
The boundaries between life and deathThe boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan Poe
The greatest impedimentExpecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Seneca
The key to immortalityThe key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Bruce Lee
The master of your destinyYou are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.
Napoleon Hill
The object of lifeThe object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
The other side of despair
The present momentDo not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
The price of anything
The quality of life
The richest experiencesThe person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The right regretsMaybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller
The secret of successThe secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Tony Robbins
The very lastDo every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
Marcus Aurelius
The wiseThe wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Paulo Coelho
Then a leap takenLife is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
D. H. Lawrence
Three wordsIn three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
To be alive
To value life moreSomeone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
Virginia Woolf
Us he devoursThe tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
T. S. Eliot
Useless life
Value of lifeA man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
Wasting lifeA man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
We have got to live
Well spent
What does a man do all his lifeThere is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
D. H. Lawrence
What is life?Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Virginia Woolf
What is life?Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
Seneca
What life is likeYou never know what life is like, until you have lived it.
Marilyn Monroe
What we do consistentlyIn essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Tony Robbins
When it is lived for othersLife is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
Helen Keller
When we rememberWhen we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
Why live?
Without music
workWork isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
Marc Chagall
Worth livingThis life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
William James
Worthy lifeIf you believe that life is worth living then your belief will create the fact.
Arthur Miller
You are the dance
Your livingYour living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Khalil Gibran
Your missionHere is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach
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