Life Quotes

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.
– Henry Miller
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
– Henry Miller
Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.
– Ann Miller
When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
– Jack Miller
The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
– C. Wright Mills
So dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
– John Milton
As I have mentioned many times before, my family's quality of life has been greatly enhanced by raising and showing horses through the years. We and many other Delawareans have made horses a family affair.
– Ruth Ann Minner
Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.
– Ruth Ann Minner
I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.
– Ruth Ann Minner
Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!
– John N. Mitchell
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
– John N. Mitchell
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
– Wilson Mizner
I don't think that there's such a thing as a career. I think that career is a myth. A career isn't what you have ahead of you. A career is what you've got behind you. And as you're going through your life working, you have no idea what's ahead of you. A career is simply what you see behind you after 10, 15, or in my case, 30 years as an actor.
– Alfred Molina
I never made conscious choices. There were times in my life that I chose the first job that came along because I was broke. I think that there were maybe a handful of times that I had a choice. In recent years, I've had more of a choice, and it's been very nice to have that choice, but most of the time, you just hope that there's another job after this one.
– Alfred Molina
I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues.
– Alfred Molina
I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.
– Brian Molko
Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
– Walter F. Mondale
I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.
– Walter F. Mondale
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.
– Claude Monet
My life has been nothing but a failure.
– Claude Monet
Life is too short for a long story.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Labour not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was coming; so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
– Michel de Montaigne
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
– Michel de Montaigne
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
– Michel de Montaigne
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
– Michel de Montaigne
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
– Michel de Montaigne
Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow.
– Ricardo Montalban
If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.
– Alfred A. Montapert
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.
– Alfred A. Montapert
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
– Charles de Montesquieu
To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
– Maria Montessori
I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.
– George Montgomery
Light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.
– Dwight L. Moody
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
– Dwight L. Moody
In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.
– Sun Myung Moon
People who sow a selfish life here on earth will reap hell thereafter. But this is not the result of the condemnation of God. One cannot reap heaven if he lives and acts against God. God is a God of love; by having humanity suffering in hell, his heart is aching. He cannot enjoy this. God's desire is to ultimately liberate even hell.
– Sun Myung Moon
As the flow of subliterary news items and anecdotes increases, the writer's work withers and stales until, in grim transference, his life becomes his oeuvre and he his only character.
– Brian Moore
The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.
– Henry Moore
I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.
– Demi Moore
Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.
– Thomas Moore
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.
– Thomas Moore
If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
– Hannah More
I'm eternally grateful to the penal system in California for saving my life.
– Frank Morgan
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
– Christopher Morley
When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue-you sell him a whole new life.
– Christopher Morley
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
– William Morris
I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
– John Mortimer
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
– John Mortimer
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.
– John Mortimer
I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.
– Bob Mould
I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am.
– Bob Mould
Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
– Bill Moyers
The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
– Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
– John Muir
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.
– John Muir
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
– Lewis Mumford
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
– Lewis Mumford
We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.
– Lewis Mumford
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
– Lewis Mumford
He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
– Hector Hugh Munro
The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
– Alice Munro
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
– Iris Murdoch
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
– Iris Murdoch
My life is nothing like the Daddy Day Care life. Me around the house is nothing like the Daddy Day Care dad.
– Eddie Murphy
Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life.
– Dick Murphy
People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.
– Bill Murray
Is this the way of life that Islam teaches us? That we fight amongst ourselves and feel scared of fellow Muslims.
– Pervez Musharraf
We claim Islam as Deen or a complete way of life.
– Pervez Musharraf
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
– Wangari Maathai
The privilege of a higher education, especially outside Africa, broadened my original horizon and encouraged me to focus on the environment, women and development in order to improve the quality of life of people in my country in particular and in the African region in general.
– Wangari Maathai
It is in plunging into the stream of life itself and entering into the deepest involvement with the values that confront us, exercising our wills to the utmost-to the breaking point-that we find God in the very extremity of the battle.
– Geddes MacGregor
I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin.
– Alexander Mackenzie
I may have been a golden retriever in a past life. When I walk down the street, strange dogs I've never met before look at me and do double takes. They do. They look again.
– William H. Macy
If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.
– Mia Maestro
But it was just like life was waiting for me to make that decision, and when I finally made it, it just took me places I never even believed existed.
– John Mahoney
I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.
– John Mahoney
I'm a dog person, I've had dogs all my life. But you see, it's not really a dog. It's more like a little robot. It's an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn't know any of us even though we've done five seasons of Frasier.
– John Mahoney
So I was the associate editor of a medical journal in Chicago, and I was thirty seven, and all of a sudden I just sort of started going through this dark night of the soul... where I just... . Is this going to be it for me, am I going to be spending the rest of my life writing about cataracts and hemorrhoids... and... . just not what I wanted to do, and I was just intensely depressed all the time.
– John Mahoney
I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in the context of something you're doing for somebody else, and particularly if you can persuade others to join you in your support.
– Wendie Malick
I feel that I have such an abundance in my life, and once you've seen how many people suffer and how little it takes for you to actually change their lives for the better, it's hard not to do something.
– Wendie Malick
I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.
– Wendie Malick
We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron. We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. It's no use. So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.
– George Leigh Mallory
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.
– George Leigh Mallory
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
– Thomas La Mance
A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.
– Joe Manchin III
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
– Bernard Mandeville
We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.
– Nong Duc Manh
Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.
– Tom Mann
The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world.It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you..
– Tom Mann
I'd probably try to stop the rain forests from being cut down. I'd probably join the revolution down south somewhere and try to save my life on the planet Earth. I might go to Libya. I might go see the Ayatollah. I might go to France, catch somebody in France I'm upset with.
– Charles Manson
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
– Franz Marc
I balance things better and don't kill myself so much, but conflict makes me a more interesting actress to watch. The places I go to to pull emotions from, I think if you have a perfect, happy life, you just don't have those places. And I want those places. I'm proud of those places.
– Vanessa Marcil
It is not a choice of life, it is a choice of death. If this is life, I'd rather die.
– Ferdinand E. Marcos
I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.
– Margrethe II
I'd love to play a drinkin', smokin', raspy talkin' dame. I'm also dying to do an 18th-century love story. I tested for this film last year that Helena Bonham Carter got, but I'll tell you, during the two hours I spent in that corset with my little English accent, I had the best time of my life.
– Julianna Margulies
Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes.
– Mother Maribel
Getting the most out of life is giving life your most.
– Janice Markowitz