The Life Quotes

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.

Offer me that deathless death Good God, let me give you my life.

The world looks marvelous from up here, so peaceful, so wonderful and so fragile. Everybody, all of us down there, not only in Israel, have to keep it clean and good.

My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

Life presents us with repeated opportunities to face what we fear, what we need to become conscious of, or what we need to master.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the f*** I was going to do with my life.

There' something about universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life.

Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well.

Learning to celebrate joy is one of the great practices of the spiritual life.

To really appreciate life you got to know you're going to die.

I've been inspired by a shitload of people in my life so if there's ever anybody that I can inspire, to me that's a huge gift. To be able to turn that back around.

There's an element of fervor and passion that you can't describe when it comes to people who, their faith literally might cost them their life.

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late.

Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.

When we're connected to others, we become better people.

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

Life is movement. The more life there is, the more flexibility there is. The more fluid you are, the more you are alive.

Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain.

Breathe. It's only a bad day not a bad life.

Integrity means that if our private life were suddenly exposed, we'd have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means that our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.

To choose life with God is to choose a blessed life.

Like the seasons of the year, life changes frequently and drastically. You enjoy it or endure it as it comes and goes, as it ebbs and flows.

Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

When you lose what you love remember to stay strong. Look out the window and remember life goes on.

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.

How can anyone be against love?

Worrying is a necessary part of life.

What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?

I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said life.