Life Quotes

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Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

Of the 1960s

The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

Stephen Vizinczey

I don't really believe in evil at all. I mean, I don't believe in God. I certainly don't, therefore, believe in some sort of supernatural or trans-historical force that somehow organizes life on dark or black principles. I think there are only people behaving, and sometimes behaving monstrously.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity which whispers in our ears that failures are not faults!

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Georgia O'Keeffe

... it is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Randall Jarrell

I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.

Steven Pressfield

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape

Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does—that's what makes it so boring.

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Charles J. Givens

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colours for those who see none.

Olivier Messiaen

I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND THANK THE LORD. GOODBYE AND MAY GOD BLESS ALL!

Christopher McCandless

I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Life — a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

Charles Lindbergh

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.

Muriel Rukeyser

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.