Life
518 quotes: 30 by Keith Craft, 488 from other voices.
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- The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his life...
- The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.
- The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.
- The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.
- The Vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart--this you will build your life by, this you will become.
- The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty, by how little.
- The wealth of man is the number of things which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by.
- The world is a great book, of which they who never stir from home read only a page.
- There are basically three really big decisions you make in your early life: where you live, who you’re with, and what you’re doing.
- There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us.
- There is in this world infinitely more joy than pain to be shared, if you will only take your share when it is set before you.
- There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
- There is no wealth but life--life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration.
- There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
- There is nothing more useful in combating the tragedy of life than to struggle with all your soul on behalf of the good.Jordan PetersonSourced
- There is only one enduring happiness in life—to live for others.
- There isn't time--so brief is life--for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving--and but an instant, so to speak, for that.
- There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.Eleanor RooseveltSourced
- Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
- These, then are my last words to you: be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
- They alone live, who live for others.
- Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.
- This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often.
- Thought is the fount of action, life, and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.
- Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- Time flies on restless pinions—constant never. Be constant—and thou chainest time forever.Friedrich SchillerCommonly attributed
- Time is always moving on; nothing can stop it. We can’t change the past, but we can shape the future. The more compassionate you are, the more you will find inner peace.Dalai LamaSourced
- Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.William Cabell BruceSourced
- Time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.Jacob BronowskiSourced
- Time is the bridge that always burns behind us.Poul AndersonSourced
- Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable.
- Time is the simplest thing, and the most precious, for it cannot be made.Brian DoltonSourced
- Time is the stuff life is made of.
- Time is the wisest counselor of all.PericlesSourced
- Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.Miguel de CervantesSourced
- Time,— that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.Charles Caleb ColtonSourced
- Time wasted is existence, used is life.Edward YoungSourced
- 'Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.
- To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.