Quotes on Life Is

Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

What is perceptible to one’s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring sameness of it, the pre-formations passed down by generation after generation, the ready-made language not only of the tongue but also of the sensations and the feelings.

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable thing. After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace.

The art is long, life is short

It doesn't bother me at all. Do I hold any hard feelings? Not at all, ... Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges. I don't hold any whatsoever.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn't you have fun at work?

Life is a near-death experience.

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference.

Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for.

When you stay present with your children, that’s where abundance is. And when you stay out of their business, that’s where everything you deserve in life is. When you’re in presence, there’s no story, and you are abundance. And you come to trust that space so often that you just eventually hang out as that, because there is nothing that can move you out of it, not even a perceived child or a perceived anything.

I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea.

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.