Quotes about: life

To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.
– Henry R. Luce
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
– Titus Lucretius Carus
Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.
– Titus Lucretius Carus
But the thing about skydiving: I feel when you do something where it's almost like your whole life flashes in front of you, it's supposed to be that when you hit the ground, you don't fear anything. And it's really a motivating force for you to just get out there and do as much as you can, because it's crazy.
– Ludacris
If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.
– Richard Lugar
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
– Martin Luther
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
– Martin Luther
Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.
– Martin Luther
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.
– David Lynch
There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
– Robert Lynd
Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?
– Stephen LaBerge
Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.
– Jules Laforgue
His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.
– John Lahr
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
– R. D. Laing
Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
– Alan Lakein
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life.
– Letitia Landon
We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
– Letitia Landon
My private life has nothing to do with my films.
– Fritz Lang
I hate it when they say, 'He gave his life for his country.' They don't die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.
– Gene R. LaRocque
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
– Gary Larson
When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.
– Ali Larter
A society that has made nostalgia a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
– Christopher Lasch
It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times - the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie - seem attractive by comparison.
– Christopher Lasch
Flowers, beautiful flowers, children, humanity, lovely, love, life, embrace all - please!
– Yusef Lateef
Dressing is a way of life.
– Yves Saint Laurent
I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.
– Lucy Lawless
Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.
– Emma Lazarus
Basically I modelled myself on James Bond throughout life. I was an adrenalin junkie from day one.
– George Lazenby
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
– Norman Lear
There's many a life of sweet content, whose virtue is environment.
– Walter Learned
The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.
– Michael Leboeuf
Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
– Michael Leboeuf
Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.
– Frederick Leboyer
There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.
– Amy Lee
Just as he lived on his own terms, advocating for the rights of human beings, the rights of those who were forgotten or ignored, from victims of rape in Africa, to the homeless on streets worldwide, he chose to move into a more abundant life, not from a hospital bed, but from his home in Vatican City. Today I, along with so many Americans, continue to pray for Pope John Paul II.
– Sheila Jackson Lee
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
– Ursula K. LeGuin
If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.
– Joseph Lelyveld
We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
– Sugar Ray Leonard
For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man - the heart of it - is pure and holy joy.
– George B. Leonard
There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.
– Hugh Leonard
Life is too serious to be taken seriously.
– Mike Leonard
What a rotten writer of detective stories life is!
– Nathan Leopold
When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intelligence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them.
– Eliphas Levi
The aims of life are the best defense against death.
– Primo Levi
I compare the current era to the industrial revolution. Over a few generations, unevenly but still irresistibly and with great pain, the technological leap from traditional agricultural society brought profound transformations in every aspect of life, not only economic and political but social, cultural and moral.
– Flora Lewis
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
– Joshua L. Liebman
I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.
– Astrid Lindgren
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.
– Stanley Lindquist
I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.
– Howard Lindsay
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
– Jacques Lipchitz
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment... quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
– Chris Evert Lloyd
I want to be a good person and live my life the right way, keeping in mind that there might be a little kid who's watching what I do.
– Rebecca Lobo
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
– William J. Lock
I chose to do this because I am a fan. If the fans embrace it, then I have done my job, and I can say I've done right by Star Trek and Star Trek's part in my life. If they reject what I've done, then I've made a serious miscalculation about what other fans like me want.
– John Logan
A deceased man has the right to breathe life into the womb of his wife and prove that love is stronger than death.
– Paul Lombard
To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.
– William Londen
The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
– Haniel Long
When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
– Haniel Long
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
– Barry Lopez
Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
– George Horace Lorimer
In life there are no winners, only assholes with Swiss Bank Accounts.
– Matthew Lotti
Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.
– Lyle Lovett
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
– Alex Lowe
You change your life by changing your heart.
– Max Lucado
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
– Lucan
It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.
– Matt Lucas
A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door.
– Joan Lunden
While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.
– Tran Duc Luong
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
– John Lyly
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
– Thomas Lynch
I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
– General Douglas MacArthur
Life is a lively process of becoming.
– General Douglas MacArthur
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
– George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
– George MacDonald
We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
– George MacDonald
I get so exhausted with people's perception of what I must be like to be 40 when it's actually wonderful. It's incredibly fabulous. I've never felt sexier in my whole life. I can wear sexy clothes because I've got an incredible body and I happen to be 43 but it's really not that hard, all you have to do is work out a little bit and it's not like everything is falling apart.
– Andie MacDowell
I've had young guys come on to me and I can't do it. I'm just not into it. I just can't do it. I think partially because my life circumstances are different. I have a 14-year-old son, and I wouldn't want to embarrass or humiliate my kids in any way, so I wouldn't allow myself to be attracted to a younger man.
– Andie MacDowell
My life in Montana is so diverse from my Hollywood life that it even feels odd for me to go from one life to the other.
– Andie MacDowell
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.
– Connie Mack
I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment, my life changed.
– Shirley MacLaine
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
– Shirley MacLaine
I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.
– Shirley MacLaine
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
– Archibald MacLeish
I think you have to deal with the confused situation that we're faced with by seizing on the glimpses and particles of life, seizing on them and holding them and trying to make a pattern of them. In other words, trying to put a world back together again out of its fragmentary moments.
– Archibald MacLeish
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
– Archibald MacLeish
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
– Archibald MacLeish
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
– Archibald MacLeish
Sixty-three years ago the unemployment figure was 29 percent. Last November it was 28 percent. A rather sad end to one's life.
– Harold MacMillan
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
– Maurice Maeterlinck
All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped-and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.
– Tobey Maguire
I love exploring psychology and getting inside someone's head or exploring the dynamics of how couples behave, and I would love to continue finding projects where I have the chance to address those kinds of issues. And sometimes there are going to be moments in my life where I will probably want to play some wild or sick character just to shake things up. I can't just be that nice, reserved guy all the time!
– Tobey Maguire
I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.
– Tobey Maguire
I've been curious about certain things, but didn't let them get in the way of my life. I don't know how people becoem successful with some kind of habit.
– Tobey Maguire
If I'm in a social situation sometimes I'll hang back and observe people but I feel very much a part of things most of the time and feel very comfortable socializing and have for most of my life.
– Tobey Maguire
To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.
– Tobey Maguire
You simply cannot control other people's thoughts or actions and you can't even necessarily control your own thoughts and feelings, you know? All you can do is make your choices of what you do with your life and what your actions are and sometimes when you do let things go and you're more passive or more active. And, you know, it's just interesting and it's important to keep on top of myself and be super honest with myself.
– Tobey Maguire
I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like your life is empty or you're a communist meanie.
– Bill Maher
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.
– Joseph de Maistre