On Life Quotes

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Let your customers and prospects recommend you to each other and let you competition wish they were you. That is our mission.

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

We don’t want to limit what God can do in our children by trying to parent them alone—Trust God to take care of them.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

Never be proud but show humility towards others, true wisdom lies in being humble.

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.

Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works

If you can't get a miracle, become one.

It is not good to have TOO MUCH of anything.

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.

You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life.

Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself.

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.

Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.

If four of you are playing hide and seek you'll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you're looking for? You are the very thing that you seek.

I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

I've had weight issues all my life. I've been on all the diets: Atkins, liquid protein, Scarsdale diet. Now I go to the gym often. I'm always on the StairMaster, and I do weights.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.

I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up.

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Even death has a heart.

Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

Those who hurt others will also hurt themselves.

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.