One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
Live, so you do not have to look back and say: ‘God, how I have wasted my life.’
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
I work a lot in the slums of Tondo, Manila, and the life there is poor and very sad. And I’ve always taught to myself to look for the beauty of it and look in the beauty of the faces of the children and to be grateful.
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.
I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.
I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery – there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.
Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life.
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
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.
Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don’t just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It’s a daily struggle.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.