Quotes on “life”

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Earth's crammed with heaven...But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.

The best things in life make you sweaty.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.