On Life Quotes

God has the final word on your life and His word is grace.

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.

Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

All I know is that I do not know anything

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.

Never Say Never if you know you can do what you love don't give up.

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.

Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last.

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.

I'm dying and all I hear are insults!

The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody.