1,004 private quotes tagged life

“Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.”— Keri Russell

“It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.”— Tupac Shakur

“All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”— Walt Disney

“To be free is to have achieved your life.”— Tennessee Williams

“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'”— Aldous Huxley

“People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.”— Nelson Mandela

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”— George Bernard Shaw

“If we don't know life, how can we know death?”— Confucius

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”— Robert Frost

“It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”— Steve Jobs

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”— Rabindranath Tagore

“Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.”— Robert Frost

“Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.”— Ayn Rand

“With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As soon as there is life there is danger.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.”— John Wooden

“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”— Henry David Thoreau

“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”— Bill Watterson

“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.”— Ernest Holmes

“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.”— Julius Caesar