Quotes on Life

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

The point of life is not to get anywhere—it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there. You are always and forever in the moment of pure creation. The point of life therefore is to create—who and what you are, and then to experience that.

Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.