Life Quotes

“The most important ingredients of a successful life are good health, honesty, love of humanity, intellectual curiosity, and a sense of fun, with the additional mingling of the celestial and diabolic which prevents a human atom from taking himself seriously.”

“Life is a little plot of light. We enter, clasp a hand or two, and go our several ways back into the darkness. The mystery is infinitely pathetic and picturesque.”

“Numerous metaphors have been used to describe life. Among them is the metaphor of life as a battle. Try not to think of life in these terms because, if you regard life as a struggle, it will become one, and you will have little joy. It is far better to think of life as a journey in which the difficulties are hills to climb. The hills are there for a reason (even if you don't know what that reason is), and the sense of satisfaction after climbing the hill is almost always worth the effort.”

“Existence rightly considered is a fair compromise between two instincts — the instinct of hoping one day to live, and the instinct to live here and now.”

“If life is not an adventure it's a sad venture, and drear at the price. After all life is after all; it is not what you make it, but what it makes you.”

“The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us.”

“Every day has a little bit of beauty and a little bit of chaos.”

“"I don't know... I am bewildered. I don't see my way." "Life is only a labyrinth — who does?"”

“We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth— we call it life. We know no other.”

“There is a reason you were born and a bunch of things you've got to do today regardless.”

“Life's more than breath and the quick round of blood: It is a great spirit and a busy heart. The coward and the small in soul scarce do live. One generous feeling — one great thought — one deed Of good, ere night, would make life longer seem Than if each year might number a thousand days,— Spent as is this by nations of mankind. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best. Life's but a means unto an end—that end, Beginning, mean and end to all things—God. The dead have all the glory of the world. Why will we live and not be glorious? We never can be deathless till we die.”

“Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.”