Quotes on Life

Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.

Venus, thy eternal sway_x000D_ _x000D_ All the race of men obey._x000D_ _x000D_ Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis._x000D_ _x000D_ He is not a lover who does not love for ever.

Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.

As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design.

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

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.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.

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

Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

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.

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor, the conquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.