Life Quotes

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
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
– Pablo Picasso
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.
– Albert Pike
To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
– Peace Pilgrim
Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
– Luigi Pirandello
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
– Robert M. Pirsig
I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.
– Brad Pitt
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
– Plato
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
– Plato
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
– Plato
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
– Titus Maccius Plautus
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
– Titus Maccius Plautus
Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
– Plutarch
I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.
– Roman Polanski
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
– Alexander Pope
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
– Alexander Pope
Passions are the gales of life.
– Alexander Pope
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
– Katherine Anne Porter
Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
– Katherine Anne Porter
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
– Katherine Anne Porter
The Natural world, in fact, enters us and becomes ,well, becomes really a kind of life, it has a pilgrimage through us.
– Peter Porter
I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.
– Natalie Portman
I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.
– Natalie Portman
My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
– Natalie Portman
Star Wars hasn't changed my life at all.
– Natalie Portman
There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life?. We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.
– Natalie Portman
There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
– Natalie Portman
I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.
– Colin Powell
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
– Colin Powell
I haven't even begun. I'm in the infancy of having the privilege of living this life. I'm still in utero. Oh God! Just wait until I'm born!
– Susan Powter
An ancient proverb summed it up: when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.
– Terry Pratchett
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
– Terry Pratchett
How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been telling me, 'Your too small Pre', 'Your not fast enough Pre', 'Give up your foolish dream Steve'. But they forgot something, I have to win.
– Steve Prefontaine
Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I also did a record because, as I've said, music has had such a huge impact on me all my life, and my hope was to affect others musically the way I was affected.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I do feel relieved. I do feel like I did what I needed to do for myself, and for whoever's out there who wants to be moved by me. I aimed it at people who are willing to be moved by music as I have in my life. It's more about the music for me. It is a relief.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I don't respond to music that's not honest, and music's had a huge influence on my whole life. It's gotten me through everything. I don't respond to music that's full of crap . Since it's also a therapeutic and cathartic thing for me to write, I'm not going to go halfway or be some puffball.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I got an early education on how bad men and women can act. Most of those people were sucking the life out of him.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I write about subjects that are close to my heart, but not every one of them is necessarily about the men in my life. Maybe two or three at most ... That's why I called it To Whom It May Concern. Go speculate.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I'm doing it because music's been such a profound influence on me and my whole life and gotten me through everything. I thought I could use this album as a vehicle, an outlet of whatever I've been through, and I wanted to see if I could affect others. It's as simple as that.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I'm sure there's no way to escape the fact that I was heavily influenced by him. I was only around his music and him most of the early part of my life. It's impossible not to have been inspired or influenced.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Music has had a profound effect on me all my life. I wanted to be able to give that to others, believe it or not.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Music's always been such a big part of my life - it's always got me through everything and it always moves me - so I wanted to move others in some way, or touch them, and use my art with my own fingerprint in it.
– Lisa Marie Presley
My life has been unusual. I was born to unusual circumstances, but I'm surviving and going through crap just like anybody else. Sure, it might be on a different level and maybe in a different way, but my life is the same as anybody's. When people look at any life under a microscope, it might seem terrible, but I've met people with worse stories.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Scientology explains to me the answers to life, the mind, people, insanity, man, in a way that, to me, is applicable. It doesn't use fear, or suppression or the devil - it's not repressive. Mainly, it's a way for me to figure out who I am. It's a lot of self-discovery; it's not someone you follow or praise.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Scientology is an encyclopaedia for life. It's non-denominational, it doesn't judge, it's a lot about self-discovery, and it helped me so much for one reason: it works. It helped me through my drugs, and it helps me still. It's my main anchor in life.
– Lisa Marie Presley
The lyrics are more conceptual than anything. They're not particularly about a person. They're just metaphorical, conceptual, of a time and place, ideal, life, that I once knew.
– Lisa Marie Presley
A man who limits his interests, limits his life.
– Vincent Price
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
– J. B. Priestley
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
– J. B. Priestley
Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
– Matthew Prior
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.
– Marcel Proust
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
– Marcel Proust
Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.
– Mark Pryor
Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.
– Vladimir Putin
If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.
– Pythagoras
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
– Pythagoras
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
– Pythagoras
Since everything in life is but an experience perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.
– Long Chen Pa
Law students are trained in the case method, and to the lawyer everything in life looks like a case.
– Edward Packard, Jr.
Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.
– Sara Paddison
We are one big family of people, trying to make our way through the unfolding puzzle of life.
– Sara Paddison
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
– Nam June Paik
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
– Grace Paley
The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
– Grace Paley
Beyond the horizon... a great, creative impulse is at work - the only thing that gives this continent meaning and a guarantee of the future. Every Australian ought to climb up here... and glimpse the various, manifold life of which he is a part.
– Vance Palmer
The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.
– Vance Palmer
The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
– Daniel D. Palmer
I don't understand what people's fascination is with our relationship. If we're in the same city, we go out... Sometimes when I'm in L.A., I stay at Ben Affleck's house. But it's not what people think. We're not together, I swear on my life.
– Gwyneth Paltrow
It really changed my life. When we split up, something changed, permanently, in me. My heart sort of broke that day, and it will never be the same.
– Gwyneth Paltrow
There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.
– Emmeline Pankhurst
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
– Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
– Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.
– Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
– Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man.
– Seth Parker
If you can organize your kitchen, you can organize your life.
– Louis Parrish
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
– Linus Pauling
The meaning of Life is to become and create our succesors.
– Tim Pease
I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.
– Pele
I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.
– Lucy Van Pelt
Life didn't promise to be wonderful.
– Teddy Pendergrass
Famous is celebrityism and I don't want that. I know that I'm not that. Everybody knows who you are, I can't imagine living that life.
– Robin Wright Penn
Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall of unless you stop pedaling.
– Claude Pepper
Everyone was like 'Oh, you'd be a perfect Frankie, she's a working-class girl, ta da da da da,' and I was like 'I don't get her. She gave up. That's not me. That has never been me.' It took me a minute to figure out who she was. I was like 'Well, how come she doesn't have any joy in her life? How come she gave up?' I had a rough life too, and I didn't give up, and I have joy.
– Rosie Perez
Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
– Persius
We must make working life more human.
– Goran Persson
The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature.
– Wilferd A. Peterson
I figure you get out of life just about what you put into it.
– Lee Petty
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
– Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.
– Trevor Phillips
Her life was like running on a treadmill or riding ona stationary bike; it was aerobic, it was healthy, but she wasn't going anywhere.
– Julia Phillips
My life off the court has changed. I'm feeling good inside, so I guess it shows on the outside too.
– Mary Pierce
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
– Harold Pinter
A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
– Ann Plato
Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
– Titus Maccius Plautus
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
– Pliny
Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.
– Alfred Polgar