Quotes about Life

“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”

“You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.”

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”

“Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.”

“March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.”

“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.”

“Life's so unpredictable. You never know when the next high or low will strike you. The trick is just to flow with the tide.”

“Cultural appropriation is a big problem, but the thing is, I didn't invent my life. I really lived in Africa.”

“My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”

“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”

“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.”

“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.”

“Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.”

“Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”

“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”

“Life, if well lived, is long enough.”

“We live in a rainbow of chaos.”

“Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.”

“Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.”

“Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.”