417 quotes
“All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruin.”
— Ovid
“Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.”
— Bob Goff
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”
— James Dean
“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life.”
— Mary Oliver
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
— Charles Darwin
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
— Khalil Gibran
“Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.”
— Sarah Louise Delany
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
— Unknown
“Because you are alive everything is possible.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Life is a school, and learning is the goal.”
— Robert Kiyosaki
“In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.”
— Tony Robbins
“Where there is love there is life.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.”
— Seneca
“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift of life is yours; it is an amazing journey; and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.”
— Bob Moawad
“In the end it is not the years in your life that count it is the life in your years”
— Abraham Lincoln
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”
— Joyce Brothers
“Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to the amount of wonder we bring to it each day”
— Anaïs Nin
“The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
— Thomas Hobbes
“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.”
— Zhuangzi
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.”
“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”
— Kakuzo Okakura
“Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.”
— Baltasar Gracián
“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
— Theophrastus
“Change is the only constant in life.”
— Heraclitus
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.”
— Socrates
“Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.”
— Tom Wolfe
“We do not what we ought, what we ought not we do, and lean upon the thought that chance will bring us through.”
— Matthew Arnold
“Be as simple as you can be you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated life can become”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“Life is trying things to see if they work.”
— Ray Bradbury
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
— Tennessee Claflin
“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.”
— Gail Sheehy
“We are always getting ready to live but never living.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
“Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don’t work out, just take another shot.”
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
“How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.”
— Annie Dillard
“To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.”
— Alan Watts
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
— Virginia Woolf
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”
“The only constant in life is change.”
“The more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrate.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity; the knowledge of the world will keep you from despair.”
— Saadi Shirazi
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.”
— Lao Tzu
“Don't dream your life, live your dreams.”
“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain.”
— Vivian Greene
“Look to this day for it is life the very life of life.”
— Kalidasa
“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
— Gautama Buddha
“One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.”
— Meister Eckhart
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.”
— Paul Gauguin
“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life”
“The idea of Zen is to catch life as it flows”
— D.T. Suzuki
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”
— Arthur Rubinstein
“There is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers having been originally breathed into forms full of wonder”
“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.”
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
— Emily Dickinson
“Into each life some rain must fall.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.”
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards with wonder lighting the way”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
— Robert Byrne
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.”
“If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life longing for itself.”
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life, to be happy. That is all that matters.”
— Audrey Hepburn
“Life without study is merely death.”
“The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.”
“Emotions are the most potent forces that govern our lives.”
— Osho
“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us.”
— Marcel Proust
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
— Nora Ephron
“Without friends no one would choose to live though he had all other goods”
— Aristotle
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
“We live in the best of all possible worlds.”
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
“To be an artist is to believe in life”
— Henry Moore
“Life is the dancer and you are the dance”
— Eckhart Tolle
“A creative life is an amplified life. It is a bigger life a happier life an expanded life and a hell of a lot more interesting life.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
— Mae West
“I dont want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
— Diane Ackerman
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
“The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe, before it's gone.”
— Rumi
“Do not live the same year 75 times and call it a life”
— Robin Sharma
“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.”
— Max Muller
“Do not seek peace in still pools. In dynamic life alone is peace to be found.”
— Dag Hammarskjold
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
“Every man dies, but not every man really lives.”
— William Wallace
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
— Allen Saunders
“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.”
“The good life is a process, not a state of being.”
— Carl Rogers
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
“Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone you can't live without.”
— Rafael Ortiz
“All that exists changes.”
“You don't have to live your life the way other people expect you to.”
— Chris Guillebeau
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
— George Sand
“All life is yoga”
— Sri Aurobindo
“The stiff and unbending is the disciple of death the soft and yielding is the disciple of life”
— Laozi
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is maybe you should set up a life you dont need to escape from”
— Seth Godin
“Life is available only in the present moment.”
“Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.”
— Nicolas Chamfort
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
“Education is not preparation for life education is life itself”
— John Dewey
“Faith is the force of life and without it there would be nothing to sustain us through difficulty”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have lived it; I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.”
— John Lennon
“In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“There is no such thing as failure failure is just life trying to move us in another direction”
“Emotions can get in the way or get you on the way.”
— Meryl Streep
“As is a tale so is life: not how long it is but how good it is that matters.”
“Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.”
— George Santayana
“When I think of art I think of beauty beauty is the mystery of life”
— Agnes Martin
“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”
— Frank Sinatra
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
— Ben Franklin
“This is the real secret of life: to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.”
“The world is a traveller's inn, not his dwelling place.”
“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”
— Frederick Douglass
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
— Thornton Wilder
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
“The moth does not see the flame as fire; the fish does not feel the water as wet. So we do not notice the medium of our own lives.”
“Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.”
“O Lord that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.”
— William Shakespeare
“Between your birth and your death, there is the life you lived and the life you wished you had lived. Make them the same.”
— Thiruvalluvar
“The world is a traveller's inn, not an abode.”
“Life is made up of marble and mud.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Between your birth and your death, wander through this world in wonder.”
“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it I must listen to my life telling me who I am through compassion”
— Parker Palmer
“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.”
“Study is the seasoning of life.”
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give”
— Winston Churchill
“Dwell on the beauty of life watch the stars and see yourself running with them”
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
— Langston Hughes
“I dont want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
“The only permanent thing is change.”
“Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”
“Life is art art is life I never separate it”
— Ai Weiwei
“Three things in human life are important the first is to be kind the second is to be kind and the third is to be kind”
— Henry James
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.”
— Federico Fellini
“Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience this is the ideal life”
— Mark Twain
“In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on.”
— Robert Frost
“The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.”
— John F. Kennedy
“We are most alive when we're in love.”
— John Updike
“It is not the length of life, but depth of life.”
“The only thing permanent in life is change.”
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
— Confucius
“Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment”
— Charlotte Joko Beck
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
— Morrie Schwartz
“The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.”
“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own.”
“The present life of man upon earth, O king, seems to me like the swift flight of a sparrow through a banqueting hall in winter.”
— Bede
“Where there is hope there is life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”
— Anne Frank
“The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union.”
— John of the Cross
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
— Omar Khayyam
“Life, if well lived, is long enough.”
“One who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”
“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life it goes on”
“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.”
“Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.”
— Hippocrates
“If you resist change you resist life”
— Sadhguru
“The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
— William James
“Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.”
“Dreams are necessary to life.”
— Anais Nin
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I learned about life: it goes on.”
“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”
— Pearl S. Buck
“Love is the river of life in this world.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.”
— T.S. Eliot
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
— Franz Kafka
“We are a spectacular splendid manifestation of life.”
— Lewis Thomas
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“Life well spent is long.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of lifes longing for itself.”
“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”
— William Makepeace Thackeray
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
— Plato
“Because you are alive everything is possible”
“In solitude we find that our life is not diminished but expanded”
— Thomas Merton
“The better part of ones life consists of friendships”
“No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full.”
— Marcus Valerius Martial
“Your time is limited, so do not waste it living someone elses life.”
— Steve Jobs
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
“Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.”
“All humans live towards death.”
— Hegel
“The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.”
— Plutarch
“The world is a great book, of which those who never stir from home read only a page.”
— Augustine of Hippo
“Learning is the bread of life.”
“Between your birth and your death there is a unique opportunity; do not let it slip by unlived.”
“Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.”
— José Saramago
“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.”
— William Feather
“The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I dont think about art when I work I try to think about life”
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
“One must work and dare if one really wants to live.”
“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Live as you think.”
— Rousseau
“Have faith in life itself and life will take care of you beyond what you can imagine”
“The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships.”
“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”
— Thales
“Life itself is education.”
— Einstein
“Live your own life.”
— Kant
“Life is the sum of all your choices.”
— Albert Camus
“To live without hope is to cease to live.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty”
“What a wonderful life I had. I only wish I had realized it sooner.”
— Colette
“In the end, just three things matter: how well we have lived, how well we have loved, how well we have learned to let go.”
— Jack Kornfield
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
“The meaning of life is just to be alive and that is so plain so obvious and so simple yet everyone rushes past this wonder”
“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
— Margaret Lee Runbeck
“The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.”
“Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life.”
— Martin Seligman
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.”
— Jack London
“We are learning until the day we die.”
“A faithful friend is the medicine of life.”
“The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”
“Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated”
“Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.”
— Oliver Goldsmith
“If you do not live as you think, you will think as you live.”
— Paul Valéry
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
— Franklin P. Jones
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen.”
“Each day provides its own gifts.”
— Martial
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
“A creative life is an amplified life a bigger life a happier life”
“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings”
— Okakura Kakuzo
“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.”
“Because you are alive, everything is possible.”
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.”
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
“Life is about change. Sometimes it's painful. Sometimes it's beautiful. But most of the time, it's both.”
— Lana Lang
“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you react to it.”
— Charles Swindoll
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
“Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans”
“The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside us while we live.”
— Norman Cousins
“Design is not for philosophy it is for life”
— Issey Miyake
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Life is always in the present tense.”
“We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.”
— Menander
“Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.”
— William Morris
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.”
“Your children are not your children they are the sons and daughters of life longing for itself born into wonder”
— Kahlil Gibran
“In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life it goes on through time”
“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life.”
— Joseph Campbell
“Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”
— William Cowper
“There is nothing permanent except change.”
“You are one decision away from a totally different life.”
— Mel Robbins
“Life is simple it is just not easy but simplicity makes even the hard parts bearable”
— William Wordsworth
“We have two lives and the second begins when we realize we only have one best discovered alone”
“I started painting because I had nothing else to do and then it became my life”
— Yoshitomo Nara
“Our life is frittered away by detail simplify simplify”
“The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.”
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow.”
“Design is not for philosophy its for life”
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
— Pablo Picasso
“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster”
— David Hume
“Do not fear death, but fear a life that is not understood.”
“All works no matter what or by whom painted are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles unless they are painted after life”
— Caravaggio
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
“I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.”
— Steven Spielberg
“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”
“The only thing constant in life is change.”
“Life is a school, and living is learning.”
— Henry Ford
“Learning is the light of life.”
“One who has mastered himself is a far greater hero than one who has conquered a thousand times a thousand men on the battlefield.”
“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?”
“Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards.”
“To be creative means to be in love with life.”
“Life is a song sing it. Life is a game play it. Life is a challenge meet it.”
— Sai Baba
“Everything changes.”
“All life is yoga every moment can be used for spiritual growth”
“One cannot step twice into the same river.”
“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
“An unexamined life is not worth living.”
“Life is nothing without friendship.”
— Cicero
“We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.”
— Thomas Fuller
“How will you measure your life not by avoiding failure but by what you built despite it”
— Clayton Christensen
“In three words I can sum up everything I learned about life it goes on”
“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.”
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
“A thousand-mile journey begins with a single step, and a life of purpose begins with a single honest thought.”
“Life is nothing without friendship”
“There is no wealth but life.”
— John Ruskin
“One joy scatters a hundred griefs.”
“Without music life would be a mistake”
“I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it without wonder”
“Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.”
— Charles Dickens
“Emotions are the greatest poetry of life.”
— Bryant McGill
“Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.”
— Hans Christian Andersen
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
“As is a tale so is life not how long it is but how good it is is what matters”
“While there is life there is hope.”
“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.”
“To love life more than the meaning of it is the most resilient stance of all”
— Dostoevsky
“If you cannot see yourself working with someone for life, do not work with them for a day.”
— Naval Ravikant
“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”
“The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.”
— Milarepa
“Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.”
— Alvin Toffler
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life in pursuit of peace.”
“Life must be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
“We live as we think.”
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.”
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are”
“We do not live for the sake of living, but to do something worth the while.”
“Life and dreams are leaves of the same book. Reading them in order is living; browsing through them is dreaming.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
— Taylor Swift
“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”
— Viktor E. Frankl
“A life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a small number of great ones”
— Roald Dahl
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale when we approach it with a sense of wonder”
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.”
“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
“A man who does not think is not truly living.”
— Descartes
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
“For life and death are one even as the river and the sea are one.”
“Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene.”
— Epictetus
“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day.”
“Fearing death is not knowing life.”
“The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences of compassion.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”
— Marie Curie
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
“Life is partly what we make it and partly what it is made by the friends and family we choose.”
— Tennessee Williams
“Let life happen to you for believe me life is in the right always full of wonder waiting to be discovered”
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”
— Grandma Moses
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