Quotes about: life

Life is a tragedy full of joy.
– Bernard Malamud
There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
– Bernard Malamud
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
– Bernard Malamud
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
– Malcolm X
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
– Maxwell Maltz
Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome, for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, It's no use-I can't do it.
– Maxwell Maltz
People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to - to work for and hope for.
– Maxwell Maltz
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
– Maxwell Maltz
Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
– Og Mandino
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
– Og Mandino
To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
– Og Mandino
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
– Horace Mann
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
– Thomas Mann
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
– Thomas Mann
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
– Thomas Mann
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
– Katherine Mansfield
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
– Katherine Mansfield
Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
– Katherine Mansfield
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.
– Katherine Mansfield
It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
– Mickey Mantle
Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.
– Mickey Mantle
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
– Orison Swett Marden
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.
– Orison Swett Marden
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
– Orison Swett Marden
No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money.
– Orison Swett Marden
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
– Orison Swett Marden
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
– Orison Swett Marden
I'm a very happy man. In everyday life, just walking around, I'm a fairly pleasant person to be around most of the time. Basically, I'm pretty mellow. Really, the only time I ever get upset is when I'm playing football. When things aren't going right or something, that's when I get the most upset.
– Dan Marino
I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
– Dan Marino
I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
– Dan Marino
Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
– Edwin Markham
The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.
– Edwin Markham
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
– Edwin Markham
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
– Edwin Markham
Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The sigularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.
– Bob Marley
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality . Wake Up and Live!
– Bob Marley
Above our life we love a steadfast friend.
– Christopher Marlowe
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
– Marcus Valerius Martial
You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.
– Steve Martin
La vida loca, that's my life right now. I'm going through an adrenaline rush that my career is giving me at the moment, and it is pretty intense.
– Ricky Martin
The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!
– Ricky Martin
No matter what your religion, you should try to become a government program, for then you will have everlasting life.
– Lynn Martin
At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold.
– Paul Martin
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
– Harriet Martineau
Al Gonzales is a dedicated public servant and exceptionally qualified to be our nation's next Attorney General. I know that a lot has been said about Judge Gonzales' life story. It is a story of the fulfillment of the American Dream.
– Mel Martinez
Forty-two years ago, I came to America from communist Cuba so I might have a better way of life, a freer way of life - a more democratic way of life. I wanted to live the American Dream where if you worked hard and put your mind to the task, anything was possible.
– Mel Martinez
The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
– Groucho Marx
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
– Groucho Marx
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
– Abraham Maslow
The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within-and make the point: This can be done.
– Abraham Maslow
It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
– Jackie Mason
How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
– Edgar Lee Masters
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
– Edgar Lee Masters
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
– W. Somerset Maugham
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
– W. Somerset Maugham
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
– W. Somerset Maugham
It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say I don't know.
– W. Somerset Maugham
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
– W. Somerset Maugham
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
– W. Somerset Maugham
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
– W. Somerset Maugham
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
– W. Somerset Maugham
There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.
– Andre Maurois
I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.
– Elsa Maxwell
Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.
– Elsa Maxwell
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
– Rollo May
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
– Rollo May
I think people right now, the age they are, being 21 and 22, really do want to find a group of bands they can take with them through life.
– John Mayer
I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.
– John Mayer
What I enjoy about the live experience is getting onstage, being handed a guitar that is in tune, taking it off mute, knowing that the very moment I want to play a note, I can play it. People are waiting on me and I'm waiting on me, and I have no idea what I'm going to play. That's the biggest joy in life.
– John Mayer
A life quenched in an untimely manner is always sad, the life of a young person quenched, whatever the circumstances, troubles us deeply. If that death arose through suicide that sense of loss is compounded inexorably. TS Eliot's evocative words serve to underline that awful sense of loss for the potential that was never allowed to fully blossom, for all that might have been but wasn't to be:
– Mary McAleese
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
– Mary McCarthy
If you believe that [Anna Kournikova's claim that she is a virgin], I've never questioned a call in my life.
– John McEnroe
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
– Bryant H. McGill
It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
– Bryant H. McGill
It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
– Bryant H. McGill
One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.
– Bryant H. McGill
Suffering is one of life's great teachers.
– Bryant H. McGill
There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.
– Bryant H. McGill
Through death all life is converted into food for the inconceivably vast maw of eternity.
– Bryant H. McGill
Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
– Bryant H. McGill
You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.
– Bryant H. McGill
It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
– George McGovern
Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
– Ian Mckellen
When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
– Ian Mckellen
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
– Mignon McLaughlin
My whole life has been dedicated to music. And of course, I've been accused a million times of playing too fast or too many notes, and I'm sure justifiably sometimes. But, you know, I'm the way I am and as we grow old, we learn and I'm still learning about space. But I'll be learning about space until I die.
– John McLaughlin
Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.
– Peter McWilliams
It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.
– Peter McWilliams
We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live.
– Peter McWilliams
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
– Margaret Mead
To cherish the life of the world.
– Margaret Mead
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
– Golda Meir
Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.
– Lord Melbourne
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.
– Bernard Meltzer
For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!
– Herman Melville
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
– Herman Melville
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.
– Herman Melville
A bore is simply a nonentity who resents his humble lot in life, and seeks satisfaction for his wounded ego by forcing himself on his betters.
– H. L. Mencken
Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
– H. L. Mencken
Life is a dead-end street.
– H. L. Mencken