The Life Quotes

What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

But to me the notion that spirituality is separate from the rest of life does not allow for a practical approach to living a life that has extraordinary quality.

Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.

Life is a smoke that curls- Curls in a flickering skein, That winds and whisks and whirls, A figment thin and vain, Into the vast inane. One end for hut and hall.

Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth.

The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.

I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

Every moment is the manifestation of the whole. Life itself is, therefore, nothing but the continuous moment of the whole, and everybody is living the continuous moment of the whole.

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.

I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.

Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well

You're so good at helping everybody else, I think you're in danger of leaving yourself out of your own life.

If you think something is missing in your life, it is probably YOU.

It’s not about the money. Its about creating a business out of your life’s purpose and mission.

If you own a butcher shop, don't hire vegetarians. To hire the right people, you have to let the wrong people go.

A mistake is a signal that it is time to learn something new, something you didn't know before.

Whatever you want in life, you've got to give away first.

That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.

He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light. No joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards

As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity.

Love the road of your life... There is so much beauty to see, so much music to hear, so many flowers to smell, so many thoughts to be thought, so much love to be had, so much Divinity to be felt.

Nothing can be good if you do it for money or for fame.

I always think everything is going to be my last job so every single day is a gift. This whole life is an accident for me.

I never really considered myself attractive, really. I was always kind of gangly in school.

I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march - more or less every second of my life, waking and sleeping.

I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.

Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.

Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.

What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.

In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel.

Life tests the big dreamers the Passionate revolutionaries.

Don't LIVE the same year 75 times and call it a Life

Either you set your goals and, in doing so, have your life governed by choice or you do nothing and have your life governed by chance.

If you don't act on life, life will act on you

The more messes you allow into your life, the more messes will become a normal (and acceptable) part of your life.

The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task.