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Quotes about Life


There must be more to life than sitting wondering if there is more to life.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Diane Ackerman

It takes only one person to change your life - you.

Ruth Casey

What I do today is important because I am paying a day of my life for it. What I accomplish must be worthwhile because the price is high.

When you have solved all mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

Kahlil Gibran

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

Boris Pasternak

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Mark Twain

If today is the first day of the rest of your life, what was yesterday?

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of the lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.

Mahatma Gandhi

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

D. Elton Trueblood

Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Montaigne

Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?

Martin Luther King

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

Amelia Burr

Life is like a dog-sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Lewis Grizzard

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Helen Adams Keller

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

Life: a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Ambrose Bierce

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Helen Adams Keller

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Goethe

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore

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