1,037 Quotes Regarding Life


No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
George Bernard Shaw

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
Jack Nicholson

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
Joseph Campbell

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
Katharine Hepburn

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Theodore Roosevelt

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.
Michelle Obama

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.
Christopher Marlowe

Children make your life important.
Erma Bombeck

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
Virginia Satir

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Robert A. Heinlein

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
Bede Griffiths

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Marcus Aurelius

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
Nora Ephron

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
George Bernard Shaw

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Henri Frederic Amiel

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.
George Carlin