Life and Existence Quotes

"There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love."

"Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life."

"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more."

"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."

"There are no regrets in life, just lessons."

"Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life."

"When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day."

"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."

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

"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened."

"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon."

"It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up."

"Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it."

"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."

"You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable."

"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."

"Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us."

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

"If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life."

"Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain."

"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life."

"What you put into life is what you get out of it."

"The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster."

"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'"

"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."

"If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you."

"Life is a long preparation for something that never happens."

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

"I don't care what it is in life: listen to your heart. If you do, no matter what, you win."

"You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice."

"Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else."

"Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor."

"You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible."

"Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again."

"I have an abundant amount of love in my life, and I'm grateful for that."

"Love is the river of life in the world."

"Without football, my life is worth nothing."

"It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men."

"Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths."

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."

"The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence."

"There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong."

"The number one priority in life is to take care of yourself and make sure you're happy."

"The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved."

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."

"Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection."

"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!'"

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

"I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life."