Quotes on Life

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

What doesn't kill me just makes me stronger

Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

I think anyone who's perfectly happy isn't particularly funny.

Sometimes it takes the better part of a lifetime to find out what your passion is, but in my observation, if you do, it might be the best part of your life.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

I do not want to arrive at the end of life and then be asked what I made of it and have to answer: 'I acted.' I want to be able to say: 'I loved and I was mystified. It was a joy sometimes, and I knew grief. And I would like to do it all again.'

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

I admit that thoughts influence the body.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life - or am I mass-motivated?