Life Quotes
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”
-- Carl Jung
“The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.”
-- Michael Jackson
“I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.”
-- Horace Walpole
“I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.”
-- B. F. Skinner
“Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
-- Voltaire
“Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.”
-- Virginia Satir
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
-- Isaac Asimov
“I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk
“The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.”
-- Norman Cousins