life quotes

“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.”

— Fran Lebowitz

“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.”

— Erich Fromm

“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”

— Josh Billings

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

“My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.”

— Charles Lamb

“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”

— Christopher Morley

“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”

— Will Rogers

“Giving is true having.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me. ”

“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”

— Marlene Dietrich

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.”

— Amelia Earhart

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”

— Isaac Asimov

“The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.”

— John Barrymore

“Love is a game in which one always cheats.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”

“I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.”

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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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— Robert Anson Heinlein

“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”

— George Eliot

“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”

— Edward Morgan Forster

“Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.”

— Patrick Jake O Rourke

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”

— William Penn

“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”

“I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle. ”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”

“I look at things as 'Everything is meant to be.'”

“All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance.”

“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”