About Life Quotes

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.

Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.

The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.

The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.

The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.

We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life, at least as a working hypothesis?

I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

The most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career but for a life as a citizen.

Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be there to know what we have done for those we love.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?

Maybe they notice me wincing whenever I hear them say it, but I don't know: there are all sorts of reasons I could be wincing. Life is a wince-a-thon.

Scobe's Tenth Law: In all endeavors, in all aspects of life, there are more horses asses than horses!

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.

All my life, following the warrior's code has taken me to places I was afraid to go. But always when I got there I was glad I made the journey.

I'm of the mind that your private life is private and you don't need to put everything out there about yourself - but on there, I describe myself as a citizen of the world, a man of music.

All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.

Coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life the universe.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow-- Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.

Slippery stages were the terror of my life.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.

What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.

In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.

Most people who have been enlightened in previous incarnations normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment around the age of twenty-nine, when their astrological Saturn return takes place.

There is something beyond power. The totality of one's being. Some call it nirvana. We have a higher destiny. Before you can scratch the surface, you have to bring your life into order.

One aspect of power is to bring our past-life awareness into this lifetime. The second aspect of power is to go into new fields of awareness that we have never experienced.

The cool thing about the universe is that it can format itself into tiny little manifestations that are not entirely aware of all aspects of life.

The study of enlightenment is really a reorganization of our perceptual body or our perceptual field. We learn to see life more directly and more clearly.

Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops.

Your life is pure joy, pure ecstasy, when you live in humility.

Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection.