Life
518 quotes: 30 by Keith Craft, 488 from other voices.
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- If you live a useful life, that is a good life. A life worth having lived.
- If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life.
- If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.
- If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
- If you’re not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.
- If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.Anthony BourdainSourced
- In a higher world it is otherwise; but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
- In every situation, life is asking us a question, and our actions are the answer.
- In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.
- In life, it's not where you go, it's who you travel with.
- In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one were never to die.
- In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
- In short, in life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard!
- In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go.
- In the good as well as in the evil of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which we take it.
- In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.
- In this world a man must be either a hammer or an anvil.
- In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
- Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.
- Instruction ends in the school-room, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
- It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sickroom.
- It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
- It is folly not to think of death. It is greater folly to think of it, and not prepare for it.
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
- It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- It is not what life brings us, but the manner in which we receive it, that shapes our destiny.
- It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.
- It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived — forwards.
- It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one’s balance.
- It is with life as it is with a play,—it matters not how long the action is spun out, but how good the acting is.
- It matters not how long you live but how well.
- It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.
- It’s better to be alone than to spend time with toxic people. It’s better to do nothing than to work on something that doesn’t matter. It’s better to rest than to climb the wrong mountain.
- It's easy to live your values and have a corporate mission statement when everything's going well, but when you're really challenged, that's when people really take noticeMary BarraCommonly attributed
- It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.
- It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
- Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
- As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
- Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.