On Life Quotes

Every moment of our life is important.

All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.

The very life which we enjoy is short. [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]

We all owe death a life.

Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.

You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.

If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.

Free speech is life itself.

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

Chronological time does not exist; what indeed exists is esoteric time, because life is an eternal instant.

Let's work and rest happily, abandon us to the course of life; let's run out the muddy and rotten water of the daily thinking and within the Void will flow the Gnosis and with it, the Joy for living.

It's indispensable to fully understand the basis and modus operandi of the Law of Karma to orientate the ship of our life in a positive and exemplary way.

I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

Born in a cellar, and living in a garret.

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. All the opportunities in the world are waiting to be grasped by people who are in love with what they're doing.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little

Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.

Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.

My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life.

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.

Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

I've basically grown up with Harry Potter, as so many kids my age have. It's kind of a part of my life.

It's just a crazy damned life, that's all.

When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.

We definitely tend to gravitate toward writing more on the darker side of life, but also incorporate the light at the end of the tunnel; you can see a positive in it.

I've slowly gone back, later on in life, to fish and then chicken and then, last year, red meat.

Fall in love with someone who truly deserves your heart. Not with someone who plays with it.

Life isn't easy, no matter where you are. You'll make choices you think are right, and then suffer for them.

Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.

Take a stand, America! You deserve better. Resolve to live life vibrantly by looking to family, faith, and freedom in this new year!

Family is the most important thing in my life, so I guess it's not surprise that I like to write about it.

Do not contemplate on death; it is just an incident in life; contemplate on God, who is the master of all life.

Earn by your efficiency and enthusiasm, The right to play higher and higher roles ,That is the meaning and purpose of life.

The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift.