Life Quotes

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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something moulded.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Someone will say: Yes, Socrates, but cannot you hold your tongue, and then you may go into a foreign city, and no one will interfere with you? Now I have great difficulty in making you understand my answer to this. For if I tell you that this would be a disobedience to a divine command, and therefore that I cannot hold my tongue, you will not believe that I am serious; and if I say that the greatest good of a man is daily to converse about virtue, and all that concerning which you hear me examining myself and others, and that the life which is unexamined is not worth living — that you are still less likely to believe.

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Life is just what happens to you,
while you're busy making other plans.

Preaching is of much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument that you can offer to the skeptic.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

Anthony Bourdain

However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.

Frederick William Robertson

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that is comes early.

Anthony Trollope

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life. There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

When I am in my painting, I am not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a short of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

Jackson Pollock

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

Augusto Roa Bastos

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living.

Henri Poincaré

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

Stanley Kubrick

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.