“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
Topic
life
1,002 quotes
Quotes, most loved first
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.”
“When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.”
“I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.”
“Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.”
“Life must be lived as play.”
“One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.”
“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.”
“Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.”
“Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.”
“Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.”
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”
“Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.”
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.”
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”
“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
“Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.”
“Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.”
“There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.”
“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.”