Quotes on Life

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.

if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.

The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their point of view and opinion come from all the programming they received growing up. When you take things personally, you feel offended and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflict. You make something big out of something so little because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. . . .

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.