1,004 private quotes tagged life

“The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.”— Aleister Crowley

“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.”— Frank Lloyd Wright

“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.”— John Henry Newman

“You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.”— John Cleese

“Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.”— Brian Tracy

“The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.”— Florence Scovel Shinn

“Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.”— Stephen Covey

“To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.”— Saint Teresa of Avila

“Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.”— Miguel Angel Ruiz

“You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.”— Michelle Obama

“Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.”— Hugh Mackay

“There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.”— Jack Nicholson

“Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.”— David Gerrold

“People living deeply have no fear of death.”— Anais Nin

“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”— Patrick Henry

“An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.”— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.”— Mel Brooks

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”— Norman Cousins

“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.”— James Dean

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”— Isaac Asimov

“The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.”— Norman Cousins

“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”— E. M. Forster

“Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”— Vladimir Nabokov

“I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.”— B. F. Skinner