Life Quotes

To be free is to have achieved your life.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

May you live all the days of your life.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Where there is love there is life.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

I work a lot in the slums of Tondo, Manila, and the life there is poor and very sad. And I've always taught to myself to look for the beauty of it and look in the beauty of the faces of the children and to be grateful.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.