Quotes about: life

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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 Antoninus
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Your life is what your thoughts make it.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
– Jane Austen
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
– Jane Austen
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
– Saint Teresa of Avila
We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.
– Mahmoud Abbas
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
– Lyman Abbott
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
– Geoffrey F. Abert
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
– Edmond About
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
– Lucius Accius
Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
– Philip Andrew Adams
In the course of my life I have tried Boston socially on all sides: I have summered it and wintered it, tried it drunk and tried it sober; and, drunk or sober, there's nothing in it - save Boston!
– Charles Francis Adams, Jr.
It is easy thus to outline a few external characteristics of the seminary, but difficult to picture its inner life.
– Herbert Baxter Adams
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
– Stella Adler
I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life... whatever god blesses you with. Enjoying life for me is just normal.
– Mohamed Al-Fayed
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
– Mitch Albom
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
– Sholom Aleichem
Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories.
– Cathy Allen
I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
– Karen Allen
I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.
– Karen Allen
Woman embroiders man's life - Embroider is to beautify - The embroidery of cleanliness - Of a smile - Of gentle words.
– Mary Wood Allen
Life is precious to the old person. He is not interested merely in thoughts of yesterday's good life and tomorrow's path to the grave. He does not want his later years to be a sentence of solitary confinement in society. Nor does he want them to be a death watch.
– David Allman
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
– Gordon W. Allport
I'm the kind of person who just can't wait to get on a train and not know where I'm going. I definitely want to live life to the fullest. And that's the type of man I'm attracted to - somebody with that spontaneous spirit.
– Summer Altice
People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.
– Summer Altice
I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.
– Mukesh Ambani
I live a very real life.
– Anastacia
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
– Hans Christian Andersen
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
– Walter Anderson
I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
– Walter Anderson
My own mystic bent leads me to believe that musical variations, collage, reiteration and process, or evolution, are beautiful. Life is worth living and beauty is worth making.
– Beth Anderson
I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations.
– Judith Anderson
There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.
– Judith Anderson
My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.
– Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
The theory of Dirac requires further that a positron, when it finds itself in a very ordinary environment, as, for example, in passing through common substances, will, on the average, have only a very short life, of the order of one billionth of a second or less.
– Carl D. Anderson
Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
– Carl Andre
My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
– Carl Andre
As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.
– John Andre
You may go to Carlisle's, and to Almack's too; and I'll give you my head if you find such a host, for coffee, tea, chocolate, butter and toast; how he welcomes at once all the world and his wife, and how civil to folk he ne'er saw in his life.
– Christopher Anstey
I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.
– Adam Ant
I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
– Adam Ant
Performing is the most important single action in my life. It is a unique experience of hard work-elation and disappointment. Every move is an experiment in building up a successful repertoire.
– Adam Ant
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
– Lauren Bacall
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
– Lauren Bacall
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
– Richard Bach
I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
– Richard Bach
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
– Richard Bach
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
– Richard Bach
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
– Gaston Bachelard
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
– Gaston Bachelard
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
– Sir Francis Bacon
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
– Sir Francis Bacon
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
– Sir Francis Bacon
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
– Sir Francis Bacon
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
– Sir Francis Bacon
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
– Sir Francis Bacon
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
– Sir Francis Bacon
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
– Walter Bagehot
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
– David Bailey
Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.
– Pearl Bailey
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
– Pearl Bailey
Even though the college man raises no more wheat than his neighbor, he will have more satisfaction raising it. He will know why he turns the clod; he will challenge the worm that burrows in the furrow; his eyes will follow the field mouse that scuds under the grass; he will see the wild fowl winging its way across the heaven. All these things will add to the meaning of life and they are his.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
Fact is not to be worshipped. The life which is devoid of imagination is dead; it is tied to the earth. There need be no divorce of fact and fancy; they are only the poles of experience. What is called the scientific method is only imagination set within bounds. Facts are bridged by imagination. They are tied together by the thread of speculation. The very essence of science is to reason from the known to the unknown.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
I have no patience with the doctrine of pure science, that science is science only when it is uncontaminated by application in the arts of life; and I also have no patience with the spirit that considers a piece of work to be legitimate only as it has direct bearing on the arts and affairs of men.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
If today you care only for pinks and roses and other prim garden flows, next year you will also admire the wild convolvulus on the old fence and the winter stalks of the sunflower. There are times and seasons for all plants. One's sympathies are wide, as one's life is full and resourceful.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
It is a marvelous planet on which we ride. It is a great privilege to live thereon, to partake in the journey, and to experience its goodness. We may cooperate rather than rebel. We should try to find the meanings rather than to be satisfied only with the spectacles. My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
We must tell it to the world that the higher education is necessary to the best agriculture. We must tell our friends of our enthusiasm for the generous life of the country. We must say that we believe in our ability to make good use of every lesson which the University has given us. We must say to every man that our first love is steadfast, our hopes are high, and our enthusiasm is great. Our hearts are so full that we must celebrate.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
Life is always walking up to us and saying, Come on in, the living's fine, and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
– Russell Baker
I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people.
– Tom Baker
I've had to hold back certain things for legal reasons, or just out of common decency, but I think autobiography has got to be selected confessions, hasn't it? I could have said jolly things about some of the dreadful people I've spent my life with, but it would have been a cheat.
– Tom Baker
Movies have never been that big in my life, I'm always to busy doing other things to find time to go to the movies.
– Kenny Baker
I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.
– Colin Baker
Now I am very clear about what is important in my life. Once I might have lived to work, now I work to live for my family.
– Colin Baker
The drama is a great revealer of life.
– George P. Baker
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
– James A. Baldwin
One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.
– James A. Baldwin
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
– James A. Baldwin
I've had a great time. I've had a great career and I've obviously had a very radical conversion in my life. It's very tangible. It's very real. It allowed me and enabled me to become the person that I couldn't on my own. Which is the most powerful part of this whole equation for me. And now I want to do whatever I'm supposed to do to continue to be obedient to that.
– Stephen Baldwin
A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.
– William Baldwin
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
– Lucille Ball
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
– Lucille Ball
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
– Hosea Ballou
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
– Honore de Balzac
There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.
– Antonio Banderas
If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our ghettos, you would predict that all of them would be on drugs or psychological basket cases. Yet if you use criteria like gainful employment, forming partnerships and life without crime, you will find that most of those kids make it.
– Albert Bandura
There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.
– Albert Bandura
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
– Tallulah Bankhead
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
– Pedro Calderon de la Barca
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
– Brigitte Bardot
There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
– Carl Barks
We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
– Djuna Barnes
We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.
– Djuna Barnes
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
– Natalie Clifford Barney
Novels are longer than life.
– Natalie Clifford Barney
With renunciation life begins.
– Natalie Clifford Barney