On Life Quotes

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

Our attitude determines our approach to life.

Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.

When we separate music from life we get is art.

My life is being ruined by the internet!

I never saw an ugly thing in my life.

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

This life is a stellar opportunity to realize what you are, to bring what you first are into manifestation.

The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.

Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing.

To me, as to Pythagoras, music is not merely entertainment or amusement...but therapy...for actuating...the healing power that exists within us all: Life Energy.

The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning.

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

I want you to know there's nothing... nothing to be afraid of. On one side, there's life. And on the other...there's life, too.

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.

I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.

There is a celestial mind-force, a great sympathetic force which is life itself, of which everything is composed.

Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life.

The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.

I try to live life so that I can live with myself.

You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life.

You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

It is a good life, Hazel Grace.

Take any problem in life and it will fall under one of three categories... money, health or relationships.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn, but much also to unlearn.

Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy.

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.

The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.

His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.

Criticism is a life without risk.

My teacher asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I said happy. She told me I don't understand the assignment, I told her she doesn't understand life.

I believe in everything until it's disproved.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done.

What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

The book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, I read it when I was about 17-and-a-half or 18. It changed my life.