Life Quotes

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
Joseph Cambell, The Power of Myth

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
Julia Cameron

Life is not counted by the amount of breaths we take, but of the moments that leave us breathless.


Live life so completely that when death comes to you like a thief in the night, there will be nothing left for him to steal.



Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play is your own will. (Jawaharlal Nehru)

"No man is a failure who enjoys life."
William Feather

God loveth a cheerful giver.
Corinthians

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
Randy Pausch

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.
James F. Cooper

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 5, scene 5

Out of life's tragedy comes true greatness
The Bold and The Beautiful


Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves ...
Don't search for the answers,
which could not be given to you now,
because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Life is a game with many rules but no referee.
One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book.
Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.
Joseph Brodsky

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot


The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, inspite of yourself.
Victor Hugo

The thing that we call living isn't gold or fame at all,
It is laughter and contentment and the struggle for a goal,
It is everything that's needful to the shaping of a soul.
Edgar A. Guest