Quotes on Life Is

Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that he understands it is simply ignorant. He is not aware of what he is saying, of what nonsense he is talking. If you are wise, this will be the first realization: life cannot be understood. Understanding is impossible. Only this much can be understood - that understanding is impossible.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?

The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect.

Let your life be your argument.

What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. In summer, we work hard to make a tidy garden, bordered by pansies with rows or clumps of columbine, petunias, bleeding hearts. Then we find ourselves longing for the forest, where everything has the appearance of disorder; yet we feel peaceful there.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.

The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

My love life is like a piece of Swiss cheese; most of it's missing, and what's there stinks.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.