Quotes on Life

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.