Quotes about life
(page 6)
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
Life is divided into three terms — that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
Thy fate is the common fate of all; into each life some rain must fall.
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.
Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
If you don't embrace who you are and don't accept who you are, you won't be able to live a happy life.
Life is a lot like skateboarding.
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.