life quotes

“Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.”

“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones”

— William Shakespeare

“My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.”

— Matthew McConaughey

“Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.”

— Jim Morrison

“I don't think life is about a pace, living slow or fast. I think you just live, y'know what I mean?”

“If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters. ”

“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'”

— Maya Angelou

“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.”

— Desmond Tutu

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.”

— Douglas Adams

“Life is wasted on the living.”

— Douglas Adams

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”

— Terry Pratchett

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. ”

“Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. ”

“Life must be lived as play.”

“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.”

“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”

“It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.”

“I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.”

“Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.”

“Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”

— Albert Einstein

“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.”

— Albert Einstein

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.”

— Albert Einstein

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Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.
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— Robert Sheckley

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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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— Robert Anson Heinlein

“The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.”

— Philip Kindred Dick