Life
518 quotes: 30 by Keith Craft, 488 from other voices.
Other voices on Life
- To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.Robert Louis StevensonSourced
- To decide to move forward courageously into the land of the unknown. That’s one of the secrets to a good life.
- To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is … the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
- To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.Robert Louis StevensonSourced
- To live is not to breathe; it is to act.
- To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism — this is the art of living.
- To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. Here’s where things grow.
- To live without hope is to cease to live.
- To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
- To say Yes to life is at one and the same time to say Yes to oneself.
- To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.Robert Louis StevensonSourced
- Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.
- Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.
- Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
- Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked.
- Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.
- We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
- We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.
- We are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it.
- We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living.
- We can either make our choices deliberately or allow other people's agendas to control our lives.
- We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.Thornton WilderSourced
- We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die you know…
- We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.Edwin MarkhamCommonly attributed
- We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother
- We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them.
- We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on the dial; we should count time by heartthrobs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
- We live shabbily because we pray meanly.
- We live to improve, or we live in vainThomas PaineSourced
- We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.Joseph CampbellSourced
- We must laugh before we are happy, or else we may die before we ever laugh at all.
- We must start from the joy of life, from respect, from humanity, because the most important thing in life is having respect for other people. Especially for those who might think very differently from you.
- We only have what we give.
- We say we have to work so hard in in order to get so little in life. That little may be more than we need. Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
- We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is the only method of the first.
- We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
- What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
- What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.
- What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.