The Life Quotes

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life

To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided.

Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.

Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.

Don't take life too seriously.

The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.

Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.

Life is about the moments: Don't wait for them, create them!

The essence of life is to care. The beauty of life is to give.

O excellent! I love long life better than figs.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.

Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life - being a citizen, being part of humanity - to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

Man's life is but a jest, A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best.

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

It's OK to be different.

I studied painting and sculpting at school and became an actress by mistake .... I've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

Depression is useful. It signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds you to take action.

I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted.

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

Loving God more than anyone or anything else is the very foundation of being a disciple. If you want to live your Christian life to its fullest, then love Jesus more than anyone or anything else.

Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller.

Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life

Life is series of opportunities. The often neglected fact of life is that opportunities multiply as you take advantage of them.

If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio.

Our duty is to understand youth, but more, to help them understand themselves that they may release their varied abilities... We must help them to discover a life work, not work for life.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

Death is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.

Hours fly, Flowers die: New days, New ways: Pass by! Love stays.

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it is one of life's great tragedies for everybody who gives up an instrument.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

Everyone has their personal topics. My comedy has always been very strong on observational humor, it stems from what I see every day in my life.

I could always live in my art but never in my life

I like doing a challenging class because it makes me more brave in life. My perception of hardships is now completely different. I'm not whining and moaning inside as much.

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

Life is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing.