Life and Existence Quotes

"Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are."

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

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

"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."

"Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child."

"Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it."

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

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

"The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings."

"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life."

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

"Life well spent is long."

"Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it."

"The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection."

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

"Into each life some rain must fall."

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

"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up."

"Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time."

"The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line."

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

"To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it."

"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important."

"Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life."

"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."

"My trade and art is to live."

"My life is my message."

"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."

"Character develops itself in the stream of life."

"While we are postponing, life speeds by."

"I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it."

"Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier."

"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance."

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."

"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain."

"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last."

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."

"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."

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

"Art is the proper task of life."

"Life is largely a matter of expectation."

"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

"Life must be lived as play."

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

"To live is to think."

"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."

"What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have."

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

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."

"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."