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Life Quotes


Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
Jim Valvano
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.
Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
Brooks Atkinson
Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
May Sarton
Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.
Bryan Adams
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
Wayne Dyer
I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
Joan Rivers
“Music is love, love is music, music is my life and I love my life. Thank you and goodnight.”
A. J. McLean
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Bill Gates
When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
Bill Gates
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.
Eva Longoria
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
Thomas Tusser
I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.
Joe Strummer
No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.
Michael Franti
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.
Paris Hilton
The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.
Thomas Wolfe
At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.
Thomas Wolfe
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
Billie Holiday
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.
Clara Barton
When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?
Ethel Barrymore
Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
Great loves too must be endured.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
Conor Oberst
But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.
Tim McGraw
Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.
Bo Jackson
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.
A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.
Tina Turner
“Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.”
Bobby Charlton
That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.
Dakota Fanning
I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.
Tina Turner
Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside.
Life to me is a fun experience.
Brad Paisley
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
Dan Rather
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Tom Brokaw
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
Phillips Brooks
Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.
Dan Rather
“I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.”
Brandon Boyd
“Some of my friends are scared right now, because the war is going on right now.”
Brandon Lee
You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it.
Mike Ditka
Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.
Mike Love
How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me.
Tom Cruise
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
But I've always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate - at least as far as possible - from the kind of illusory lifestyle that comes with being a celebrity.
Winona Ryder
Your purpose in life is to use your gifts and talents to help other people. Your journey in life teaches you how to do that.
Tom Krause
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Dante
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
“It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.
Benjamin E. Mays
We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance
Benito Mussolini
One day I may be meeting you and hearing how you've changed your life by saying, 'Farewell to Fat'.
Richard Simmons
Celebrate we will because life is short but sweet for certain we're climbing two by two to be sure these days continue.
Dave Matthews
From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
Frederick Buechner
I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
Ziggy Marley
My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.
David Beckham
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.
I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
Anthony Burgess
The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.
Morrie Schwartz
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
Roland Barthes
My life needs editing.
Mort Sahl
You haven't lived until you've died in California.
Mort Sahl
We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
John Le Carre
I love hearts. They are symbols for life, love and humanity.
Ville Valo
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
Vivienne Westwood
I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
Ron White
I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.
Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.
David Frost
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
Truman Capote
I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
Rowan Atkinson
Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
David Hockney