life quotes

“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.”

“Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.”

“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.”

“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”

“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.”

— Mother Teresa

“If you would live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'”

— Stephen King

“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”

— Marie Curie

“I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.”

— Marie Curie

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”

— Marie Curie

“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

“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”

— Abraham Maslow

“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”

— Herbert George Wells

“I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.”

— Fidel Castro

“I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.”

— Fidel Castro

“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.”

— Oscar Wilde

“You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.”

— Paulo Coelho

“We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.”

“There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.”

— Antonio Banderas

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

— Robert Frost

“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”

— Agatha Christie

“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.”

— Agatha Christie

“The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.”

— Agatha Christie

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”

— Leonardo da Vinci