Life
Definition: The condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter,
including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.
Number of Quotes: 110
Life is wasted on the living.
Douglas Adams
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
Franklin P. Adams
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry Adams
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry Adams
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
Henry Adams
The best things in life are silly.
Scott Adams
You don't have to be a person of influence
to be influential. In fact, the most
influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
Scott Adams
A celebrity is one who works hard all his life to become well-known and then goes through back streets wearing dark glasses so he won't be recognized.
Fred Allen
The secret of life is not to do what you like but to like what you do.
Anonymous
Someone has said that the ideal life is to live in an English country home, engage a Chinese cook, marry a Japanese wife, and take a French mistress.
With Love and Irony
Anonymous
The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When
the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she's depleted.
Sherry Argov
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Marcus Aurelius
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
When that glass broke and Stone Cold
was making an entrance, and that roof blew off that building,
that sends you higher than life or anything that I know of. It's an adrenaline rush you can't explain.
Steve Austin
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in
each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
Richard David Bach
For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man.
To be killed by you is to be desired more
than a life excluded from your service.
Bravo.
Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling. Bravo!
Seeing Redd
Frank Beddor
Life, you know, is rather like opening a tin of sardines. We're all of us looking for the key.
Alan Bennett
Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
Joe Biden
What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.
Horatio Bottomley
We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?
Richard Branson
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
Leo Burnett
God has forgotten me.
Referring to her long life at the age of 120.
Jeanne Calment
Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
Albert Camus
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Nicolas Chamfort
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the
wolves will eat you; if you go left, you'll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you'll eat yourself.
Anton Chekhov
My parents always enforce the idea of never giving up upon all of my siblings
and me, and I think that's something that will stick with me my whole life.
Nathan Chen
People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.
City of Glass
Cassandra Clare
There is no pretending,
Jace said with absolute clarity.
I love you, and I
will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.
City of Glass
Cassandra Clare
Half of our mistakes in life arises from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
John Churton Collins
There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an
object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
John Constable
Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general,
it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else.
Sean Covey
The only way to enjoy life is to work. Work is much more fun than fun.
Noël Coward
Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour.
William Cowper
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
Richard Crashaw
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love, lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there
too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up, for ever, on my best affections. Deep affliction has but strengthened and refined them.
Charles Dickens
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life
is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
Isak Dinesen
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli
Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name them - work, family, health, friends, and spirit -
and you're keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But
the other four balls - family, health, friends, and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed,
marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life.
Brian Dyson
After The Real Thing,
I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your
work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.
Jennifer Ehle
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus
z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work,
pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Albert Einstein
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.
Albert Einstein
Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left
scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green
vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.
George Eliot
Dance is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
Havelock Ellis
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in
parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.
Euripides
One of the saddest things is that the only thing a man can do for eight hours
a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat ... nor make love for eight hours.
William Faulkner
All that matters is love and work.
Sigmund Freud
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended - and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone
can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid
person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did
something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you
out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like maybe we should be just friends
turns into a glass splinter working its way into
your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.
The Kindly Ones
Neil Gaiman
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
I think a man is a business failure who lets his family life interfere with his business record ... business is no place for him.
Jean Paul Getty
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They came through you but not from you
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Khalil Gibran
Everything which is properly business we must keep separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freer handling.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky
My momma always said, life was like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're gonna get.
Tom Hanks
Stages
As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every stage,
So every virtue, so our grasp of truth,
Blooms in its day and may not last forever.
Since life may summon us at every age
Be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavor,
Be ready bravely and without remorse
To find new light that old ties cannot give.
In all beginnings dwells a magic force
For guarding us and helping us to live.
Serenely let us move to distant places
And let no sentiments of home detain us.
The Cosmic Spirit seeks not to restrain us
But lifts us stage by stage to wider spaces.
If we accept a home of our own making,
Familiar habit makes for indolence.
We must prepare for parting and leave-taking
Or else remain the slaves of permanence.
Even the hour of our death may send
Us speeding on to fresh and newer spaces,
And life may summon us to newer races.
So be it, heart: bid farewell without end.
The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse
Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their
Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Life is hard, work is hard.
Liisa Joronen
When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of
emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you've never done it before.
Sebastian Junger
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward your
goal, whatever it is, whether it's giving up something, a terrible addiction or trying to work your way through an
illness. When you total up those baby steps you'd be amazed over the course of 10 years, the strides you've taken.
Hoda Kotb
He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a
long time to live and must schedule his time as though he were about to die.
Émile Littré
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
Marya Mannes
For I remember it is Easter morn,
And life and love and peace are all new born.
Alice Freeman Palmer
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
Boris Pasternak
For the whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their
native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.
Pericles
Physicians acquire their knowledge from our dangers, making experiments at the cost of our lives.
Pliny
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream ...
All that you see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.
Katherine Anne Porter
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own-even more,
one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
Katherine Anne Porter
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives
and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife.
Theodore Roosevelt
They say there's no second act in American lives. There's something there worth exploring. Giving up an idea of yourself, examining
your failure, and seeing if that failure was the system's or yours. What does it mean to not turn out to be the person you want to be?
Scott Rudin
It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt
Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.
Seneca
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at
life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Dr. Seuss
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
As You Like It
William Shakespeare
Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
George Bernard Shaw
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Gail Sheehy
I'm happy 'bout life. Still trying. I ain't giving up on life.
Leon Spinks
I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.
Caskie Stinnett
The priority in life is to keep an eye on the business and not to get lured into the high
social life with groupie-type poseurs who wish to be seen with the new blue-eyed boy.
Alan Sugar
It is everyone's prerogative to retire. But it's like giving up on life as far as I'm concerned.
Roger Taylor
I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not
going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar
Growing Stronger
emerged from a need to relate my life experiences as well as my constant
struggle to prevail each day, and as a reminder to myself of the importance of never giving up.
Thalía
Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau
If you don't have passion ... you might as well give up ... you have no chance of
making it. Passion is the essence of life, and certainly the essence of success.
Donald Trump
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a
mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.
Lao Tzu
My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know
what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.
Pancho Villa
There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial
age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see
that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
Edmund White
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should
live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about.
Tiger Woods
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles life.
Edward Young
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