Life Quotes

"The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten"

"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped"

"When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart"

"States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live"

George W. Bush, President

"There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by"

Ivan Turgenev, Novelist

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life"

Frank Zappa, Musician

"Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

"It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

"If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud"

Emile Zola, Novelist

"I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity"

Emile Zola, Novelist

"You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen"

Paulo Coelho, Novelist

"Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act"

Paulo Coelho, Novelist

"Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning"

John Dewey, Philosopher

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself"

John Dewey, Philosopher

"I see music as a framework for life, a way to ask the bigger questions"

Wayne Shorter, Musician

"I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you"

Tyler Perry, Actor

"Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

"If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about"

Tiger Woods, Athlete

"Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune"

Owen Glendower, Royalty

"If life were just, we would be born old and achieve youth about the time we'd saved enough to enjoy it"

Jim Fiebig, Businessman

"Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark"

Dan Millman, Author

"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

"I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me"

Sarah Bernhardt, Actress

"If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

"I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

"I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it"

Hank Aaron, Athlete

"I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices"

William Robertson Smith, Scientist

"In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance"

Tiger Woods, Athlete

"Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

"It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life"

Rita Rudner, Comedian

"In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it"

Michael Servetus, Scientist

"Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are"

Susan Sontag, Author

"I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams"

Susan Sontag, Author

"All of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life"

Joe Baca, Politician

"There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

"I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

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