Life
518 quotes: 30 by Keith Craft, 488 from other voices.
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- Happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.
- Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.
- Happiness is not pleasure; it is victory.
- He lives long that lives well, and time misspent is not lived, but lost.
- He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
- Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
- Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.
- Hope is necessary in every condition.
- How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live!
- How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.
- How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
- However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.
- Human life consists of a succession of small events, each of which is comparatively unimportant, and yet the happiness and success of every man depends upon the manner in which these small events are dealt with.
- I am endeavouring to live every day as if it were a complete life.SenecaCommonly attributed
- I believe in one thing—that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
- I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
- I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
- I gradually stopped wondering, ‘What life do I have?' and began to consider, ‘What life can I build?
- I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
- I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
- I just work on the principle that of all the virtues gratitude (next to honesty) is the greatest, and that has helped me on numerous occasions in my life.
- I preach to you, then, my countrymen, that our country calls not for the life of ease but for the life of strenuous endeavor.
- I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time.
- I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.
- I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
- I would rather risk wearing out than rusting out.
- Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.Cesare PaveseCommonly attributed
- If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.
- If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.Norman CousinsCommonly attributed
- If today were the last of your life, would you do what you were going to do today?
- If we were blind for one day each year, how we would enjoy the other three hundred and sixty-four.
- If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
- If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.
- If you don't design your own life plan chances are you will fall into someone else's plan and guess what they have planned for you? Not much!
- If you don’t have a consistent goal in life, you can’t live it in a consistent way.Marcus AureliusCommonly attributed
- If you don't program yourself, life will program you!
- If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.
- If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.