Life Quotes

"The act of dying is one of the acts of life"

"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, Soldier

"There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another"

Richard M. Nixon, President

"And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Your life is what your thoughts make it"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Our life is what our thoughts make it"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Do every act of your life as if it were your last"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have"

Ralph Marston, Writer

"Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it"

Ralph Marston, Writer

"She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit"

Sri Aurobindo, Philosopher

"India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities"

Sri Aurobindo, Philosopher

"Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

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

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"Life is not fair; get used to it"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

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