1,004 private quotes tagged life

“Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.” — Joseph Campbell

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“I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.” — Kurt Cobain

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“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.” — Joseph Campbell

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“The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” — Vince Lombardi

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“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” — Joseph Campbell

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“A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.” — Thomas Merton

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“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.” — Caleb Carr

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“One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.” — Erma Bombeck

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“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” — Denis Waitley

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“Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“Thug Life to me is dead.” — Tupac Shakur

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“I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.” — Michael Jordan

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“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.” — Anais Nin

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“We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.” — Marianne Williamson

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“If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.” — Eminem

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“I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.” — Michael Jordan

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“Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.” — Pythagoras

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“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.” — Booker T. Washington

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“In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.” — Michael Jordan

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“Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.” — Michael LeBoeuf

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“Life is not fair get used to it.” — Bill Gates

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“When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.” — Wayne Dyer

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“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.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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