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 CouplandGood men make life a twofold span to last: Twice does he live who can enjoy his past.
Marcus AureliusHe 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 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 AureliusI 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 WinfreyI'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 WattsFantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.
Dr. SeussWhen making your choice in life do not neglect to live.
Samuel JohnsonRoad 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 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.
BuddhaThe 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 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 CoelhoFor some reason I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.
Taylor SwiftIn 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 BabaAttention 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 FreudDespair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.
Herman HesseNot in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness only in his actions, in his life.
Herman HesseI have always been a great dreamer. In dreams I have always been more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of my health and energy.
Herman HesseMy real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
Herman HesseI 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 WildeLike the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
Lord ByronFor 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 FranklinThe 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 FranklinNever 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 SandburgA mother's life you see is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
Honore de BalzacOur 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.
AristotleThis 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 FrostMy mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
George WashingtonThe direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
PlatoA return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo MachiavelliOne 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 ReaganWe 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 FitzgeraldBut 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 DisneyLife 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-RossSuicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always, for cowardice sometimes prevents it, since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe 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 LincolnOne must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E. M. ForsterOnly 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 RobbinsEven a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl JungLife 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 BabaPolitics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo MachiavelliI'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
John LennonDestiny 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 JohnsonLife is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
Dave BarryLet 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 MontaigneOld 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 JobsMany of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. EdisonThug Life to me is dead.
Tupac ShakurI love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake you know?
Ernest HemingwayMusic 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 AureliusYour 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 GoetheOh I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.
Drew BarrymoreThere is just one life for each of us: our own.
EuripidesLife is just a journey.
Princess DianaI 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 ClintonLife is God's novel. Let him write it.
Isaac Bashevis SingerSurely 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 SheenIt is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI 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 MardenKnowledge 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 SenecaNobody 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 least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl JungFigure 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 HubbardLife 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 KalamA 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 JohnsonThere 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 KantWithout 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 AguileraWhatever you do in life surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
John WoodenYears 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 CouplandI 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 SchwarzeneggerSingleness 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 Morissette