Friday, August 3, 2012

Top 100 Quotes about Life

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving"- Albert Einstein

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”- John Lennon

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”- Mother Teresa

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on" - Robert Frost

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first" - Mark Twain

"Every man dies. Not every man really lives" - William Wallace

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's learning to dance in the rain" - Unknown

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all” - Oscar Wilde

"Where there is love, there is life"- Mahatma Gandhi

"While we are postponing, life speeds by" - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive" - Elbert Hubbard

"We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same and worth saving" - J.K.Rowling

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time” - Mark Twain

"Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans" - John Lennon

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: This is the ideal life" - Mark Twain

“Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.”- John Wayne

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life”- Virginia Woolf

“Life is to be enjoyed, not endured” - Gordon B. Hinckley

“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something” - William Goldman

“Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder”- Stephenie Meyer

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody” - Stephen Chbosky

“Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live” - Natalie Babbitt

“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.” - Peter Shaffer

“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”- Oprah Winfrey

“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made” -  Groucho Marx

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud”- Émile Zola

“May you live every day of your life” - Jonathan Swift

“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of” - Markus Zusak 

"Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor"- Sholom Aleichem

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced" - Soren Kierkegaard 

"Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it" - Samuel Butler 

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less" - Marie Curie

"Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are" - Jean Anouilh 

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes" - William James 

"There is just one life for each of us: our own" - Euripides 

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well" - Josh Billings

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough" – Mae West 

 “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” - Isaac Asimov 

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me" - Erma Bombeck
 
" You should live everyday like it's your birthday" - Paris Hilton 

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing" - George Bernard Shaw

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out" - Anton Chekhov

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live" - Jean-Paul Sartre

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined"- Henry David Thoreau 

"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back" - Arthur Rubinstein

"I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it" - Charles M. Schulz 

"Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about" - Oscar Wilde

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome" - Isaac Asimov

"Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep" - Fran Lebowitz 

“Why do you live?"m"Because I have something worth living for” J.K. Rowling 

“The life so short, the craft so long to learn ”- Hippocrates

“The art of life is the art of avoiding pain”- Thomas Jefferson 

"Life well spent is long" - Leonardo da Vinci

"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life" -John F. Kennedy 

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile" - Albert Einstein

"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions" - Alfred Adler

"The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century"- William Lyon Phelps

"The less routine the more life"- Amos Bronson Alcott

"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself" - George Bernard Shaw

"Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor"- William Cowper 

"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" - Barbara Kingsolver 

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life" - William Osler 

"We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it" - Lauryn Hill 

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us" - E. M. Forster

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

"We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion" - Max de Pree

"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner"- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"What we play is life" - Louis Armstrong 

"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?"- Sydney J. Harris

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained"- Mark Twain 

"While there's life, there's hope" - Marcus Tullius Cicero

 "Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies" - Erich Fromm

"Wrong life cannot be lived rightly"-Theodor Adorno

"You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change" -John Cleese

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need"- Vernon Howard 

"The only disability in life is a bad attitude" - Scott Hamilton

"The person lives twice who lives the first life well"- Robert Herrick 

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it"- Henry David Thoreau 

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are" - Joseph Campbell 

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose"- Robert Byrne 

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases"- Carl Jung

"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life"- William Morris

"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well" - Horace Walpole

"There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles"- Stephen Covey 

"There is just one life for each of us: our own"- Euripides

"There is no wealth but life" - John Ruskin 

"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last" - Robert Louis Stevenson

"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it" - William James 

"To be free is to have achieved your life" - Tennessee Williams

"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance" - Buddha

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else" - Emily Dickinson 

"Get busy living or Get busy dying" - Stephen King“The most important thing is to enjoy your life to be happy, it's all that matters.” ― Audrey Hepburn 

“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”- Sylvia Plath

“Live simply so others may simply live.” - Mother Terasa

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”- Henry Miller

“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”  Eleanor Roosevelt