1,004 private quotes tagged life

“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.” — Christopher Morley

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“I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same.” — Lil Wayne

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“The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.” — Jim Rohn

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“Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.” — Jim Henson

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“My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.” — Timothy Leary

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“The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“Above our life we love a steadfast friend.” — Christopher Marlowe

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“When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.” — Zig Ziglar

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“Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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“One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.” — Joan of Arc

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“I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.” — Lil Wayne

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“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.” — Nora Ephron

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“Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.” — Virginia Satir

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“What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.” — Ralph Marston

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“Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

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“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.” — Katharine Hepburn

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“I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.” — Michelle Obama

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“Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.” — W.C. Fields

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“Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.” — Ani DiFranco

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“What you get is a living, what you give is a life.” — Lillian Gish

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“At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.” — Bob Dylan

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“Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.” — Sydney Madwed

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“We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!” — Gary Ryan Blair

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“The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.” — Chanakya

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