Quotes on Life

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.

What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.

Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world._x000D_ _x000D_ Variant: Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.

Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.

Never lose a holy curiosity. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.

Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one you have, and there will be no other life after it. So the longest and the shortest lives are the same. The present moment is shared by all living creatures, but the time that is past is gone forever. No one can lose the past or the future, for if they don't belong to you, how can they be taken from you?

We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.

The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be a vaccine that can prevent the invasion of a disgruntled attitude. As antitoxins prevent the disastrous effects of certain poisons and diseases, thanksgiving destroys the poison of faultfinding and grumbling. When trouble has smitten us, a spirit of thanksgiving is a soothing antiseptic.

How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.

If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.