Quotes on Life

Your journey begins with a choice to get up, step out, and live fully

I make sure to use my life for that which can be of goodwill. It has fortified me spiritually and emotionally

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back.

Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time.

I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do - it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting - or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.

I want a guy who takes charge, but lets me have my say once in a while. A good relationship is all about balance and chemistry.

I have noticed that the Universe loves gratitude. The more grateful you are, the more goodies you get. When I say 'goodies', I don't mean only material things. I mean all the people, places and experiences that make life so wonderfully worth living.

No experience is ever wasted. Everything has meaning.

Everything you are comes from your choices.

It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.