Life Quotes

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Laurence Sterne

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
Robert Frost

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White

I love those who yearn for the impossible.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
Ursula Andress

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. Schulz

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Robert Louis Stevenson

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
Carl Sandburg

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
Jean Ingelow

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything in life is luck.
Donald Trump

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlin

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney


I do not regret one moment of my life.
Lillie Langtry

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
Grandma Moses

I love life because what more is there.
Anthony Hopkins


Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

Don't go through life, grow through life.
Eric Butterworth

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Richard L. Evans



A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
James Allen
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Seneca

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
Jean Paul