Quotes on Life Is

The task of life is to face sacred moments.

Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective.

Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.

Someone asked the Swiss physician & author Paul Tournier how he helped his patients get rid of their fears. He replied, 'I don't. Everything that's worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids--all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.'

The single most important tool to being in balance is knowing that you and you alone are responsible for the imbalance between what you dream your life is meant to be, and the daily habits that drain life from that dream.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

The way to have the life we want is to receive more deeply the life we have. Sometimes we keep our own life at arm's length, thinking we'll wait until circumstances improve before giving it all we've got. But life is just a reflection of consciousness, so it's never going to give any more to us than we give to it. Don't wait for a perfect life; breathe in the life that's already perfect.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.

Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make so difference that we lived at all.

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.

Our prime purpose in life is to serve others.

The pursuit of your life is to come into [your] purpose. And the waste of your life is to miss that purpose.

The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.

The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.

The challenge of life is to learn how to love