Life and Existence Quotes

"A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave."

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

"A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life."

"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."

"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."

"Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open."

"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life."

"All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today."

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."

"All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low."

"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green."

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."

"Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life."

"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding."

"An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person."

"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out."

"Art is the proper task of life."

"Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'"

"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."

"Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray."

"Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born."

"Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful."

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

"Character develops itself in the stream of life."

"Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you."

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

"Don't die old, die empty. That's the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard."

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

"Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life."

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."

"Each day is the scholar of yesterday."

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

"Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time."

"Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them."

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."

"Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me."

"Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last."

"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass."

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."

"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential."

"For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer."

"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."

"Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom."

"He not busy being born is busy dying."