Life quotes

You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.

Phyllis Diller

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it, you will feel you are not deserving.

Maxwell Maltz

No matter how qualified you are, you won't reach a better life until you imagine it.

Richard Bach

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books, but it is terrible when one has to live it.

Jean Anouilh

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Viktor Frankl

Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight.

Francis Bacon

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Aristotle

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Oscar Wilde

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

Henry David Thoreau

The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.

Albert Pike

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Albert Einstein

It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.

Alexander Crummell

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

George Santayana

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Erich Fromm

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Aldous Huxley

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Alfred North Whitehead

The things people discard tell more about them than the things they keep.

Hilda Lawrence

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

Keri Russell

While there's life there's hope.

English Proverb

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.

Havelock Ellis

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Havelock Ellis

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.

Rachel Carson

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

Barbara De Angelis

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Arthur Rimbaud

The dream of a cat is filled with mice.

Arab Proverb

Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.

Etty Hillesum

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

Helen Fielding