Life
518 quotes: 30 by Keith Craft, 488 from other voices.
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- Life is not about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.
- Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
- Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendar. There are epochs in our existence which can not be ascertained by a formal appeal to the registry.
- Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
- Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
- Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don’t presume you will have it tomorrow, and don’t waste it today.
- Life is really made up of inconsequent trifles. The great things will take care of themselves. The problem of the hour is the little things. And little gratitudes are among the most important of them.
- Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
- Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?
- Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
- Life is the best thing we can possibly make of it.
- Life is too short for long-term grudges.
- Life is too short to be little
- Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it... Being alive is the meaning.
- Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.
- Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- Life isn’t supposed to be happy or fair. Life is supposed to be meaningful.
- Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
- Life, like some cities, is full of blind alleys, leading nowhere; the great art is to keep out of them.
- Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while you could miss it.
- Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
- Life: What you choose to make it.
- Life will always be, to a great extent, what we ourselves make it.
- Life without faith is a tree without root.
- Life without learning is death.
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Live, love, learn, leave a legacy.
- Live the ordinary days with passion and exuberance.
- Look upon every day as the whole of life, not merely as a section; and enjoy and improve the present without wishing, through haste, to rush on to another.
- Lots of things take time, and time was Momo's only form of wealth.Michael EndeSourced
- Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
- Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
- Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
- Make your life work instead of making life full of work.
- Man is as young as the risks he takes.
- Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.Erich FrommCommonly attributed
- Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.
- Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age; but the heart can.