Quotes about: life

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
– Pearl S. Buck
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
– Pearl S. Buck
I'm not going to say anything nasty about golf. I have a standing offer - and I've told this to Bill and Mike - that if they ever do a charity golf thing again, I will get knickers and a tweed cap and, never having touched a golf club in my life, I will take mushrooms and do a full eighteen holes. As long as is televised.
– Peter Buck
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
– Buddha
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
– Buddha
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
– Buddha
On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
– Buddha
Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
– Buddha
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
– Buddha
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
– Buddha
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
– Buddha
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
– Buddha
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
– Buddha
You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
– Warren Buffett
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
– Warren Buffett
Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
– Jimmy Buffett
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
– Charles Bukowski
How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.
– Jim Bunning
Be yourself, take control of your life.
– Emma Bunton
I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
– Luis Bunuel
Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
– Warren E. Burger
There can be no assumption that today's majority is right and the Amish and others like them are wrong. A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
– Warren E. Burger
I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
– Anthony Burgess
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
– Anthony Burgess
I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.
– James Lee Burke
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
– Leo Burnett
Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana.
– Conrad Burns
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
– John Burroughs
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
– John Burroughs
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
– Richard Burton
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
– Leo Buscaglia
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
– Leo Buscaglia
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
– Leo Buscaglia
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
– Leo Buscaglia
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
– Leo Buscaglia
There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
– Gary Busey
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
– Barbara Bush
America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
– George W. Bush
America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be granted or denied by government because it does not come from government, it comes from the creator of life.
– George W. Bush
States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
– George W. Bush
This way of life is worth defending.
– George W. Bush
When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.
– George W. Bush
A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
– Samuel Butler
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
– Samuel Butler
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
– Samuel Butler
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
– Samuel Butler
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
– Samuel Butler
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
– Samuel Butler
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
– Samuel Butler
Life is one long process of getting tired.
– Samuel Butler
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
– Samuel Butler
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
– Samuel Butler
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
– Samuel Butler
There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.
– Samuel Butler
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
– Samuel Butler
I spent the first twenty years of my life waiting for two men I was reasonably certain would never come back - my daddy and Jesus Christ. I don't wait for them anymore. My dad, anyway. And at least with Jesus I didn't spend all that time thinking he was gone because of something I did.
– Brett Butler
Instead my life has been like being mashed and mashed through a wine press until finally there will be nothing left but the desire to live by divine will, knowing what I'm really supposed to do and doing it.
– Brett Butler
I like the dress-up part. In real life, I'm into sweats and never like that, but I do like to get dressed up - like most girls.
– Amanda Bynes
We try to magnify the difference between Americans and the English. In real life they like the same music and dress the same. It's really much more similar than anyone thinks or how we show it.
– Amanda Bynes
One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.
– Robert Byrd
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
– Lord Byron
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
– Lord Byron
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
– Lord Byron
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
– Lord Byron
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
– Lord Byron
I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.
– Lord Byron
Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
– Lord Byron
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
– Lord Byron
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
– Lord Byron
Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
– Lord Byron
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
– Lord Byron
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
– Lord Byron
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
– Lord Byron
What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whore's lap, or in the orgasm of a voluptuous dream, might (for aught we know) have formed a Caesar or a Bonaparte - there is nothing remarkable recorded of their sires, that I know of.
– Lord Byron
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
– Lord Byron
When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.
– Lord Byron
After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.
– Michelangelo
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
– Michelangelo
I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
– Michelangelo
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
– Michelangelo
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
– Sai Baba
Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.
– Sai Baba
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
– Sai Baba
The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
– Sai Baba
You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.
– Sai Baba
As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings - that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; and that for fifty years wilt live out thy life in ample wealth.
– Bacchylides
I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India.
– Amitabh Bachchan
It is necessary to examine, in a detailed way, the contemporary theory of Evil, the ideology of human rights, the concept of democracy. It is necessary to show that nothing there leads in the direction of the real emancipation of humanity. It is necessary to reconstruct rights, in everyday life as in politics, of Truth and of the Good. Our ability to once again have real ideas and real projects depends on it.
– Alain Badiou
I do not interfere with your personal life domestically, and internationally, our military forces should not be interfering with foreign governments.
– Michael Badnarik
I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life, the lives of your loved ones, and your property.
– Michael Badnarik
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
– Byrd Baggett
The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
– Josephine Baker
I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.
– Anita Baker
Life seems to be a never-ending series of survivals, doesn't it?
– Carroll Baker
After all, I had never typed the word butthole before in my life. It isn't a word that comes up much in business correspondence.
– Nicholson Baker
They are both great fans and they have been for years and years. It is a bit more of a social event there and here it is almost kind of like life and death. The fans are really really into it and terribly disappointed when you lose. They are very compassionate about the team and they are very knowledgeable fans here.
– Dusty Baker