Life Quotes

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why we're here: to evolve as human beings.

Life itself is a gift. It’s a compliment just being born: to feel, breathe, think, play, dance, sing, work, make love, for this particular lifetime. Today, let’s give thanks for life. For life itself. For simply being born!

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

The three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.