About Life Quotes

For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.

I am not my thoughts, feelings, circumstances of changing events in life, I am the awareness, the alertness, the changeless which remains present behind it.

Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

O philosophy, you leader of life.

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.

With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!

The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.

Don't let technology dictate your life.

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

Some things need to be let go before other things can be let in.

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.

The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

I think daily life is where the lessons come in - that's where the tests and the growth come in.

Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame.

Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out.

When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can.

I'm 5 foot 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield

How you live your life can affect your mental state.

Mental health and mental balance is critical to leading a healthy life.

When the people call Earth 'Mother,' they take with love and with love give back so that all may live.

I can’t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to be a great part of the substance of human life.

Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day.

My father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people youre with.

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days waiting for better ones ahead.

Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.

Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems.

Rules for today: 1) Pray 2) Laugh 3) Repeat. The only reason to take this life too seriously is if it's your only one.

Gray and overcast from my earthly perspective, but it's sunny above these storm clouds. Grace lets us see life from God's point of view.

If you're not spending 80 percent of your time marketing and selling, you are headed for trouble.

If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising.

In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life.

Life is true to form, records are meant to be broken

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

Social change involves helping people see new options for making life wonderful that are less costly to get needs met.

A difficult message to hear is an opportunity to enrich someone's life.

Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life; it is the pathway to it.

A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy.

This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights.

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure

When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.

It's a young country and a German only feels comfortable being with the masses. They have very little talent at creating an inner life, privacy. And I think there must be something wrong.