Life Quotes

Only the weak invite their demons to live with them. Isn't that right?

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole li...

Trust is not very easy for me at all. I want to be a trusting person, but I've been bruised so many ...

Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in ...

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility...

I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in...

As a cell contains a natural intelligence by which it fosters the healthy functioning of the body, I...

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a ...

It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country;...

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so...

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he c...

This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists ...

There are a thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.

I wish that my life could be like the movies, like 'Bonnie and Clyde' or 'The Hunger' or 'Harold and...

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard...

This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal t...

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete y...

Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.

Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have th...

In this life, you should read everything you can read. Taste everything you can taste. Meet everyone...

Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are eith...

Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three w...

Scatter the names of all those who have ever lived over the surface of the knowable cosmos, and it w...

Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I t...

His lovely wife tends her zinnias in the mild morning light and his find young man comes fondly mish...

I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I...

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

How I wish you could have known me in my strength.

That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject w...

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do ...

Our dream of life will end as dreams do end, abruptly and completely, when the sun rises, when the l...

Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting....

Her name had the likeness of a name. She had the likeness of a woman, with hands but no face at all,...

Eliminate the overwhelming cost of phantom wars and fools' errands, and humankind might begin to bal...

(Everyday life is like a sack: with holes. And you carry it anyway.)

I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I...

A life path may have strange twists and turnings, and we do not always end up where we intend to go...

And then a memory from Avalon surfaced in her mind, something she had not thought of for a decade; o...

Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some wil...

If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little ...

Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and ...

The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on t...

At least until there are new lakes in the clouds that open upon living cities as yet unknown, and pe...

If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master...

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when yo...

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold ...

Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together ...

The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legisl...

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside...

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any tim...

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall h...

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars--all over Europe, all over the world. "S...

Life itself is only a vision, a dream.""Nothing exists; all is a dream. God--man--the world--the sun...

Yes, King Edward VI lived only a few years, poor boy, but he lived them worthily.

I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I...

To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can...

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it'...

It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to ...

Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this ...

I see it on his face. I hear it when he talks. We look out at the world and we see the same thing: N...

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth li...

You should feel good about making your home nicer for your family and your friends. You should feel ...

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into acti...

Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you atten...

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

Marriage is always something of a compromise, as I'm sure you're now aware. Any long-term relationsh...

There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxi...

I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision ...

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life ...

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses...

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his ...

Christian life consists in faith and charity.

Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning to...

Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about...

The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeo...

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams sh...

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely e...

All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of ...

Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that thereare some things so precious...

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I t...

Guilt, did I say? In what consists ours, unless in the opinion of an ill-judging world?

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and m...

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

Find a voice in a whisper.

If we ever established contact with intelligent life on another world, there would be barriers to co...