Quotes about life

"Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness."

Unknown, Source on life   

"Live poor so you can die rich."

Unknown, Source on life   

"Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do."

Unknown, Source on life   

"Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn"

Unknown, Source on life   

"The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives."

Unknown, Source on life   

"Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition"

Unknown, Source on life   

"There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can."

Dyke, Henry Van on life
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"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."

Voltaire on life
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"My life is a battle."

Voltaire on life
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"Life is a zoo in a jungle."

Vries, Peter De on life   

"The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile."

Waitley, Denis on life   

"Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel."

Walpole, Horace on life
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"Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others."

Ward, William A. on life
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"Life is a state of mind."

Warden, Jack on life
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"People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly"

Warhol, Andy on life
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"Every perfect life is a parable invented by God."

Weil, Simone on life   

"Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level."

Welsh, John on life   

"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe."

Whitehead, Alfred North on life   

"This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul."

Whitman, Walt on life
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"Life does not happen to us, it happens from us."

Wickett, Michael on life   

"We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death."

Wilde, Oscar on life   

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Wilde, Oscar on life
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"The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him."

Wilde, Oscar on life   

"Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic"

Wilde, Oscar on life   

"Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments."

Wilde, Oscar on life   

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"Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us."

Wilde, Stuart on life   

"If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints."

Wise, Alfonso The on life   

"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on life   

"Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you."

Wolfe, Thomas on life   

"The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general."

Woolf, Virginia on life   

"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."

Woolf, Virginia on life   

"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on life
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"I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it."

Wright, Steven on life   

"Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, so. What did you think?"

Wright, Steven on life   

"The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness."

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh on life   

"The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living."

Young, J. Z. on life   

"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."

Angelou, Maya on life
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"Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions."

Camus, Albert on life   

"One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it."

Canetti, Elias on life   

"Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them."

Gauguin, Paul on life