Life Quotes

"The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything"

Anatole France, Novelist

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited"

E. F. Schumacher, Economist

"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water"

Anatole France, Novelist

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another"

Anatole France, Novelist

"I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life"

Lucretius, Poet

"Life is one long struggle in the dark"

Lucretius, Poet

"And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all"

Lucretius, Poet

"People don't care about what someone says about you in a movie - or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people's life better, then that's something that's really good"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life"

Peter Tosh, Musician

"In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural"

Sallust, Historian

"It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life"

Franz Boas, Scientist

"In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be"

Ben Jonson, Poet

"I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living"

Christian Bale, Actor

"But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor"

Lee Grant, Actress

"In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed"

Sallust, Historian

"Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires"

H. Stanley Judd, Author

"Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth"

Franz Boas, Scientist

"I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine"

Christian Bale, Actor

"I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that"

Christian Bale, Actor

"I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene"

Christian Bale, Actor

"Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest"

Christian Bale, Actor

"You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not"

Christian Bale, Actor

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