Life Quotes

"Only a life lived for others is a life worth while."
-Albert Einstein

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify."
-Henry David Thoreau

"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust."
-Henry David Thoreau

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
-Henry David Thoreau

"If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success."
-Henry David Thoreau

"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live."
-Henry David Thoreau

"If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game."
-Voltaire

"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."
-Voltaire

"I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas."
-Voltaire

"Life isn't about living without problems. Life is about solving problems."
-Tom Krause

"Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations."
-Herbert Spencer

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
-Robert Byrne

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
-Mark Twain

"One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."
-Pablo Picasso

"Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake up and live!"
-Bob Marley

"Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?"
-Bob Marley

"An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats."
-George Orwell

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
-Socrates

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
-Socrates