Many of the things you can count, do not count. Many of the things you cannot count, really count.
Quote category: Life
If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting, but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything.
Life is like a motor car.
A motor car can be used to travel great heights. But most people lie in front of it, allow it to drive over them, then blame it for the accident
You never live so fully as when you gamble with your own life.
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what nerves let you do.
We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.
One oral utterance, which boldly states how you want your life to be, is worth more that a dozen books read or lectures attended. Spoken words describing the good you want, help you to claim it and release it into your own life quickly.
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.
What a wonderful life I have had! I only wish I had realised it sooner.
Life is a series of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a miracle.
We come awake to such a realization when we recognize our connection to a spiritual dimension.
The purpose of life is to discover your gift.
The meaning of life is to give it away.
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead
Tis easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows like a song. But the man worthwhile is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
There is no end. There is no beginning.
There is only the infinite passion of life.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible.
I do not believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
Allow life to be the theatre of God, in which what seems appropriate and necessary in your case will be accomplished spontaneously.
You must trust the process of your own life.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
Live the life you have imagined!
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
Things do not change: We change.
We create our fate every day we live.
To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism, this is the art of living.
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it
You do not have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.
We must be willing to get rid of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Life kisses us on both cheeks, Day and morn, But laughs at our deeds, Eve and dawn
I never lose sight of the fact that just 'being' is fun.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Life is a pretty precious and wonderful thing.
You can not sit down and let it lap around you - you have to plunge into it, you have to dive through it.
To live is not to learn, but to apply.
There is no such thing as an accident, it is fate renamed.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when adults are afraid of the light.
The main fact of life for me is love or its absence.
Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
Each time you complete an act of creation, you focus a life force. And since life begets life, this energy seeks to enlarge its expression through new creation. In the stage of completion, your being is ready for another act of creation.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
One should count each day a separate life.
If logic tells you that life is a meaningless accident, do not give upon life. Give up on logic.
It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
Mistakes are one part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards.
Living life to the full comes when the ultimate concerns have been faced: death, freedom, isolation and meaninglessness.
How we face or avoid those concerns has profound effects on the ways in which we experience intimacy and solitude, closeness and freedom, awareness of self and others.
Life was never meant to be a struggle just a gentle progression from one point to another, much like walking through a valley on a sunny day.
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"
In my life I have often been given the advice - just be yourself.
I only wish that I had instead been advised to - let yourself be.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty: the joy of not knowing what comes next.
The best way to know life is to love many things.
Life is not the way it is supposed to be. It is the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
For everything that lives is holy; life delights in life.
Uncertainty and expectations are the joys of life.
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
To change your life: Start immediately; Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions - No excuses.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
He who has a 'why' to live can bear almost any 'how'.
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world ; By practising reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
To live is the rarest thing in the world.
Most people exist, that is all.