1,004 private quotes tagged life

“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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“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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“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.” — Pablo Picasso

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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” — Marcus Aurelius

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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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“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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“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.” — 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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“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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“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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“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain

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“The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.” — Michael Jackson

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“I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.” — Barbara Kingsolver

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“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.” — Aphra Behn

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“If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?” — Amy Purdy

Source:https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_purdy_living_beyond_limits/...

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“Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.” — Paul Wellstone

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“My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“Life is lived on the edge.” — Will Smith

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“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” — Michael Jordan

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“I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.” — Michael Jordan

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