Life
518 quotes: 30 by Keith Craft, 488 from other voices.
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- A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
- A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
- A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.
- A speech comes alive only if it rises from the heart, not if it floats on the lips.Desiderius ErasmusSourced
- A thought constantly repeated at last becomes a fixed habit of the mind, and from such habits proceeds the life.
- A useless life is an early death.
- A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
- A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
- Accident does very little towards the production of any great result in life.
- Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.
- All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
- All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
- All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
- All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
- All through life, be sure and put your feet in the right place, and then stand firm.Abraham LincolnSourced
- Almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
- An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.
- As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
- As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
- As our acts and our thoughts are, so will our lives be.
- As the fountain from the hidden spring, so issues man's life from the secret recesses of his heart.
- As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
- At the end of your life, is it really going to matter how many Likes you got?
- Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
- Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
- Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.
- Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
- Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self.James AllenSourced
- Being successful doesn’t make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!Randy PauschSourced
- Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
- Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
- Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.
- Brave people don't live forever, but cautious people don't live at all.
- A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
- Call no man happy till you know the end of his life. Till then, at most, he can only be counted fortunate.
- Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
- Change is not merely necessary to life — it is life.
- Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.
- Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?