I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Albert EinsteinLife is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
Marcus AureliusI find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
Doug CouplandSometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.
Doug CouplandHe who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
AristotleThe energy of the mind is the essence of life.
AristotleIt's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken.
AristotleThe only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
Ansel AdamsAll of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.
Deepak ChopraThe devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Albert EinsteinLife would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark TwainLife is sad, Life is a bust, All ya can do is do what you must.
Bob DylanThe happy life is thought to be one of excellence, now an excellent life requires exertion and does not consist in amusement.
AristotleHe who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Marcus AureliusIt was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive or who had ever been alive.
James Arthur BaldwinI am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
Oprah WinfreyThe important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert EinsteinWater and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
Jacques Yves CousteauI'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.
Vivien LeighYou get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Oprah WinfreyTo believe in something and not to live it is dishonest.
Mahatma GandhiWe do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.
Alan WattsNo one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
Alan WattsWhen you rise in the morning give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food, and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
TecumsehFantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.
Dr. SeussWe spend more time learning how to make a living than we do learning to make a life.
Muhammad AliWhen making your choice in life do not neglect to live.
Samuel JohnsonYou see, most people think Great God will come from the sky, Take away everything and make everybody feel high, But if you know what life is worth You would look for yours on earth.
Bob MarleyOnly the fittest of the fittest shall survive - Stay alive!
Bob MarleyRoad of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.
Bob MarleyLive for yourself and you will live in vain; live for others, and you will live again.
Bob MarleyI don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.
Bob MarleyI feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
Taylor SwiftSeeking but not finding the house builder, I traveled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders you have now been seen. You will not build the house again.
BuddhaIn death the many become one; in life the one become many.
Rabindranath TagoreThe same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.
Rabindranath TagoreIt is in the very heart of our activity that we search for our goal.
Rabindranath TagoreWhether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.
Rabindranath TagoreLife itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.
Rabindranath TagoreMy eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.
Rabindranath TagoreThe most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.
Rabindranath TagoreThe fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.
Rabindranath TagoreYou are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.
Rabindranath TagoreLife is a journey. How we travel is really up to us. We can just flow with the tide or follow our own dreams.
Paulo CoelhoThere are neither winners nor losers; there are only stages that must be gone through. When the human heart understands this, it is free and able to accept difficult times without being deceived by moments of glory.
Paulo CoelhoThey were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny.
Paulo CoelhoAll battles in life serve to teach us something, even the battles we lose.
Paulo CoelhoChoose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.
ConfuciusFor some reason I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.
Taylor SwiftA brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.
Paulo CoelhoIf you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.
Paulo CoelhoLife is tragic, simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day for each of us the sun will go down for the last, last time.
James Arthur BaldwinIn wilderness I sense the miracle of life and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
Charles LindberghI never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
Oscar WildeA life not lived for others is not a life.
Mother TeresaDesire is the worst enemy, it ruins many a human life. Desire, when fulfilled, breeds further desire.
Sai BabaMarriage is a wonderful institution but who wants to live in an institution?
Groucho MarxWe are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions, rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things we can accomplish those goals.
Stephen CoveyThey deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
Kahlil GibranLet us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark TwainAttention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
PlatoIf a man has been his mother's undisputed darling, he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
Sigmund FreudThe call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
Herman HesseMy real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
Herman HesseThere is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
Herman HesseThis life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.
BuddhaI felt as if I were walking with destiny and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and this trial.
Winston ChurchillLife is never fair and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar WildeIntelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
Richard DawkinsFor having lived long I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions, even on important subjects which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin FranklinBetween us and heaven or hell there is only life which is the frailest thing in the world.
Blaise PascalEverything is changeable, everything appears and disappears, there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
BuddhaIf we don't know life how can we know death?
ConfuciusThe adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive
Joseph CampbellA life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune, is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Denis WaitleyA life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
Bertrand RussellHe that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin FranklinLove life, engage in it, give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back many times over what you put into it.
Maya AngelouLife must be a constant education, one must learn everything from speaking to dying.
Gustave FlaubertNever part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
Jean PaulAmerica is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting and it is sure to be large.
E. M. ForsterLife is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Carl SandburgSelf-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin, are now emblems of the American lifestyle.
Billy GrahamThis is my life. It is my one time to be me. I want to experience every good thing.
Maya AngelouI have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
Ingrid BergmanMeditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon come out from behind the clouds! Shine!
BuddhaWe do not need to proselytise, either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mahatma GandhiThere is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.
Paulo CoelhoAs from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.
BuddhaOur lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.
Wayne DyerAnd in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
Stephen KingBashfulness is an ornament to youth but a reproach to old age.
AristotleLife is like dancing. If we have a big floor many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
Miguel Angel RuizThis way of life is worth defending.
George W. BushEducation doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Robert FrostThe direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
PlatoA risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.
Deepak ChopraLearn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert EinsteinWhen we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark TwainOne way or another we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
Joseph CampbellLife is one grand sweet song, so start the music.
Ronald ReaganIf it wasn't for pick-pockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
Rodney DangerfieldWe identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
Alan WattsA woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
Washington IrvingI like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham LincolnSometimes I lie awake at night and ask 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me 'This is going to take more than one night.'
Charles M. SchulzTo a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
F. Scott FitzgeraldObserve the life by cause and consequence. Explore the life by wisdom. Treat the life by equality. Complete the life by love.
BuddhaBut he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
Theodor W. AdornoAll the adversity I've had in my life all my troubles and obstacles have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Walt DisneyBut men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on
Francis BaconLife began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
George EliotI believe that we are solely responsible for our choices and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word and thought throughout our lifetime.
Elisabeth Kubler-RossThe moment in between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.
Barbara de AngelisAll my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow, in thought and mind.
Abraham LincolnWithout friends no one would choose to live, though he has all other goods.
AristotleOne must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E. M. ForsterOn a long journey of human life faith is the best of companions, it is the best refreshment on the journey, and it is the greatest property.
BuddhaOnly by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSometimes I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.
Nelson MandelaEveryman's life lies within the present, for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
Marcus AureliusIt's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Tony RobbinsLife is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
Charles LindberghTo grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it his problem, and to express it his dedication.
James DeanWe shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
Winston ChurchillI miss hanging out with my friends getting in a little trouble. I have to be so guarded now.
Tiger WoodsGod is the life-breath of every soul.
Sai BabaI made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.
Nelson MandelaDestiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe greatest pleasure of life is love.
EuripidesExecute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
Marcus AureliusSome desire is necessary to keep life in motion and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Samuel JohnsonThe chief condition on which life health and vigor depend on is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties increases its energy and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
Colin PowellLife is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
Dave BarryOur greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us but is always the result of a good conscience good health occupation and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas JeffersonI still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while it wouldn't be sustainable for me and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.
Alanis MorissetteLet me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
Albert SchweitzerWhat do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George EliotMarriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn Joseph Campbell
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion a woman loves her lover in all the others all she loves is love.
Lord ByronMy life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Michel de MontaigneMy philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives then work hard toward that goal we never lose - somehow we win out.
Ronald ReaganI promote a healthy lifestyle.
Kim KardashianOld age is the verdict of life.
Amelia BarrEach life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Stephen KingRemembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death leaving only what is truly important.
Steve JobsThug Life to me is dead.
Tupac ShakurThe worst enemy of life freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy, their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Aldous HuxleyMusic is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Jean PaulLife is like arriving late for a movie having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends
Joseph CampbellI just have an enthusiasm for life.
Lou HoltzOur life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus AureliusWant balance in your life? Then sure get your own act together but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
Stephen CoveyYour work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it.
Steve JobsI feel like my life is pretty special.
Tiger WoodsTrust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere is just one life for each of us: our own.
EuripidesLife is just a journey.
Princess DianaFar and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore RooseveltI feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.
Hillary ClintonYou know everybody has setbacks in their life and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.
Hillary ClintonSurely a long life must be somewhat tedious since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time which will never return.
Samuel JohnsonIt was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
SophoclesLife is ours to be spent not to be saved.
David Herbert LawrenceThere are three things we cry about in life things that are lost things that are found and things that are magnificent.
Doug CouplandI have never smuggled anything in my life. Why then do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
John SteinbeckI think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. SchulzLife all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.
Charlie SheenIs life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich NietzscheIt is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.
Michelle ObamaI feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest most sacred and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states although it may cost me my life.
Andrew JacksonA happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
Orison Swett MardenI know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
Ronald ReaganKnowledge about life is one thing, effective occupation of a place in life with its dynamic currents passing through your being is another.
William JamesAccept no one's definition of your life, define yourself.
Harvey FiersteinWe are born so to speak twice over, born into existence and born into life, born a human being and born a man.
Jean-Jacques RousseauOccupations and resultant attitudes have been assigned to the various stages of human life.
Sai BabaNo man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being to risk his body to risk his life in a great cause.
Theodore RooseveltGenius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald[But the strongest reason he gave for discounting the results of the B-sample tests from France was heartfelt and honest and totally typical of the iconic cancer survivor.] A guy who comes back from arguably you know a death sentence ... Why would I then enter into a sport and dope myself up and risk my life again? That's crazy. I would never do that. No. No way.
Lance ArmstrongWhat is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page And be alone on earth as I am now
Lord ByronLife if well lived is long enough.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaLife consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh BillingsNobody deserves to have their personal life pried into like I did and no one deserves to hear me whine about it so much.
Kurt CobainThe figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification such as sects and cults are founded on but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert FrostThe care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas JeffersonFigure out what it is in life you don't do well and then don't do it.
Doug CouplandPolygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
Elbert HubbardThe greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Elbert HubbardHe who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich NietzscheThere have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.
Judy GarlandLife does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
Simone WeilWoz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
Steve JobsVariety's the very spice of life That gives it all its flavor.
William CowperThe chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Robert FrostJust as the wave cannot exist for itself but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean so must I never live my life for itself but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Albert SchweitzerFor strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
Arthur Conan DoyleYour ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
Desmond TutuWe are certainly in a common class with the beasts, every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
Saint AugustineLife is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
Abdul KalamThe happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Elbert HubbardA free life cannot acquire many possessions because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
EpicurusGive me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Frank Lloyd WrightEarly in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
George OrwellLife is a struggle but not a warfare.
John BurroughsThe theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do.
Joseph CampbellWhen a man is tired of London he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel JohnsonI have had a wonderful life. I have never regretted what I did. I regret things I didn't do. All my life I've done things at a moment's notice. Those are the things I remember.
Ingrid BergmanTo me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.
Alanis MorissetteThere is no doubt that life is given us not to be enjoyed but to be overcome, to be got over.
Arthur SchopenhauerScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel KantSuch happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
John DeweyWithout God life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it, it is a body with no soul.
Sai BabaSomeone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
Virginia WoolfWhen you are tough on yourself life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
Zig ZiglarTo find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement but the real deep life-filling bliss.
Joseph CampbellNo matter how qualified or deserving we are we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.
Richard BachWe must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made or grow to our full stature.
Robert Louis StevensonLife is a mirage, It comes from no visible rain, It falls into no recognizable sea.
Sai BabaBy respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary profound and alive.
Albert SchweitzerIt's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.
Christina AguileraYears steal Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb, And Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim
Lord ByronThe things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price peace-at-any-price safety-first instead of duty-first the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Theodore RooseveltFor the meaning of life differs from man to man from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters therefore is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
Viktor E. FranklYou can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
Doug CouplandYouth comes but once in a lifetime.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowI didn't see it then but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
Steve JobsI always like to look on the optimistic side of life but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Walt DisneyGetting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!
Alanis MorissetteFor me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist to survive but to move ahead to go up to achieve to conquer.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerSir Walter with his 61 years of life although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40 had fortunately for the world a longer working career than most of his brethren.
Arthur Conan DoyleSingleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life no matter what may be one's aim.
John D. RockefellerThey're different kinds of challenges, depending upon what phase of life I'm in.
Alanis MorissetteLife an age to the miserable and a moment to the happy.
Francis BaconLet the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.