life quotes

“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

“Life well spent is long.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Our life is made by the death of others.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

— Pablo Picasso

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

— Pablo Picasso

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.”

— Jane Austen

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

“Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.”

“If we don't know life, how can we know death?”

“The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.”

“My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. ”

— Winston Churchill

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. ”

— Winston Churchill

“In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. ”

— Winston Churchill

“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. ”

— Winston Churchill

“Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence. ”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.”

— Arthur Young