1,004 private quotes tagged life

“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.” — Bill Watterson

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“Life well spent is long.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.” — John F. Kennedy

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“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.” — Carl Jung

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“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” — Lao Tzu

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“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” — Ernest Holmes

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“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“I bear a charmed life.” — William Shakespeare

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“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.” — Mark Twain

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“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.” — Anatole France

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“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” — Helen Keller

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“Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.” — Martin Luther

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“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.” — William Feather

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“I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.” — John Lennon

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“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.” — Plato

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“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.” — Stephen Hawking

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“The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.” — Albert Einstein

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“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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