Quotes on Life

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.

Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth.

One word _x000D_ _x000D_ Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:_x000D_ _x000D_ That word is love.

The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

May you live all the days of your life.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.

It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.