Life and Existence Quotes

"We live in the world when we love it."

"I love life because what more is there?"

"I bear a charmed life."

"I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible."

"Life loves the liver of it."

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

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

"Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day."

"When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent."

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

"You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind."

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

"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."

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."

"Where there is love there is life."

"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."

"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."

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious 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."

"There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth."

"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."

"Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life."

"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."

"Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions."

"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."

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

"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around."

"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."

"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."

"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."

"Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right."

"Life is short, and every moment is precious."

"The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live."

"Love is energy of life."

"Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas."

"It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave."

"I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same."

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."

"Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character."

"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."

"A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living."

"You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life."