Quotes about Life

“I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.”

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.”

“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.”

“Live the life you've dreamed.”

“We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.”

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”

“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”

“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.”

“Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.”

“Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.”

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

“What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?”

“How sweet it is!”

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”

“Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.”

“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”

“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.”

“Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”

“Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.”

“I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.”