Life Quotes

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth... That's the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.