Life Quotes

"Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!"

Edwin Markham, Poet

"I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms"

Graham Nash, Musician

"The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?"

Edwin Markham, Poet

"For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out"

Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet

"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

"Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

"A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life"

Issey Miyake, Designer

"Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"Life is God's novel. Let him write it"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about"

Elias Canetti, Author

"Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now"

Audre Lorde, Poet

"In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head"

Adam Weishaupt, Clergyman

"There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

"You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"That it will never come again is what makes life sweet"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

"Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

"The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion"

Marcel Proust, Author

"We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it"

Judy Garland, Actress

"Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life"

Charles Darwin, Scientist

"Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth"

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

"Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible"

Edward Teller, Physicist

"Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe"

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

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