Quotes about Life

“Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.”

“All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.”

“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”

“Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”

“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.”

“Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.”

“Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.”

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”

“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.”

“When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.”

“Life is short, and every moment is precious.”

“Life is largely a matter of expectation.”

“I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.”

“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.”

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

“Each day is the scholar of yesterday.”

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”

“Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.”

“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”

“Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.”