Quotes on Life

Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.

Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back.

Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Half the truth is often a great lie.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.