Quotes about: life

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
– Jean Anouilh
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.
– Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to work so hard.
– Vivien Leigh
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
– Sydney Smith
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.
– Michael J. Fox
Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.
– Andrew Shue
Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
– William Hazlitt
Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.
– Rainn Wilson
Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
– K. D. Lang
Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
– Maude Adams
Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?
– Jean Claude Van Damme
Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
– Fran Drescher
Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
– Ben Harper
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
– Franz Liszt
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
– Soren Kierkegaard
Life is not fair get used to it.
– Bill Gates
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
Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
– Bill Hicks
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
– Imelda Marcos
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
– O. Henry
Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
– Abraham Cahan
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
– Charles M. Schulz
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
– Carl Sandburg
Life is lived on the edge.
– Will Smith
Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.
– Desmond Morris
Life is hard it's harder if you're stupid.
– John Wayne
Life is hopefully long, so I don't know what the future will bring.
– Bethenny Frankel
Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.
– William Christopher Handy
Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
Life is full of happiness and tears be strong and have faith.
– Kareena Kapoor
Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible.
– Elisha Cuthbert
Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.
– Jeanne Moreau
Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.
– Carre Otis
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
– Oscar Wilde
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
– Ashley Smith
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life is best when you are in love.
– Michael Moriarty
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
– Robert H. Schuller
Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.
– Chris Robinson
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
– Hypatia
Life is about learning when you stop learning, you die.
– Tom Clancy
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
– Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life is about family and technology.
– Mark Goddard
Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.
– Kate Atkinson
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
– David Herbert Lawrence
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
– Ted Turner
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
– Vladimir Nabokov
Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.
– George Gershwin
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
– Henry James
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
– Anais Nin
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
– Thomas Sowell
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
– Charles R. Swindoll
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
– Elbert Hubbard
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
– George Sand
Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.
– Dirk Benedict
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
– Albert J. Nock
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
– Soren Kierkegaard
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.
– Susan Lucci
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
– Horace
Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
– William Ellery Channing
Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
– Barbara Bush
Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.
– Deepak Chopra
Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.
– Annie Lennox
Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting.
– Liv Tyler
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
– Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
– William Shakespeare
Life doesn't just happen it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here.
– Mike Mills
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
– Anton Chekhov
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
– George Bernard Shaw
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
– Charlie Chaplin
Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
– Luis Barragan
Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?
– Gael Garcia Bernal
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
– Samuel Johnson
Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.
– Jennifer Aniston
Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
– Gloria Swanson
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
– Hu Shih
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
– George Eliot
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
– Neale Donald Walsch
Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.
– Charlie Sheen
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
– Bodhidharma
Life and death have been lacking in my life.
– Jorge Luis Borges
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
– Samuel Johnson
Let's be honest about this the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.
– Alveda King
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
– Voltaire
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
– Henri Frederic Amiel
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.
– Maxine Hong Kingston
Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
– Halle Berry
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
– Albert Schweitzer
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
– Adrienne Rich
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.
– Robert Trout
Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
– Isaac Watts
Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
– Tony Buzan
Learning how to relive again on life's terms sure doesn't do much for your confidence. You have to kind of walk in faith that the next step is going to be just a little bit better than the last step.
– Joe Nichols