99 Quotes To Live By

1.  Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. George Bernard Shaw
2. A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come. Denis Waitley
3. Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard
4. I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important. David Rockefeller
5. Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. Thomas Merton
6. Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. Khalil Gibran
7. The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. Aristotle
8. The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. Robert Frost
9. The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. Henri Frederic Amiel
10. Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. Dorothea Lange
11. Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it. George Bernard Shaw
12. Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. Pythagoras
13. The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. William Morris
14. In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
15. Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too. Will Smith
16. The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. Pope John Paul II
17. When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands. George Carlin
18. It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity. Cesar Chavez
19. Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. Aristotle
20. 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
21. When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over. Audrey Hepburn
22. Gratitude helps you to grow and expand gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you. Eileen Caddy
23. The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl Jung
24. Don't let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. Richard L. Evans
25. You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. Steve Jobs
26. Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. Ani DiFranco
27. True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing. Baltasar Gracian
28. It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. Sydney J. Harris
29. This is the strangest life I've ever known. Jim Morrison
30. One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. Oscar Wilde
31. The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. Oscar Wilde
32. This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. Rumi
33. Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
34. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford
35. Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. Samuel Smiles
36. No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Steve Jobs
37. Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? Friedrich Nietzsche
38. There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. George Bernard Shaw
39. I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase. Jennifer Aniston
40. We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last. Muhammad Ali
41. It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all. Albert Camus
42. Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. Bill Cosby
43. Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions. Sai Baba
44. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back. Maya Angelou
45. Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. George Santayana
46. Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. Earl Nightingale
47. Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them. Charlie Sheen
48. If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. William J. Clinton
49. The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Jean Paul
50. I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up. Shania Twain
51. For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. Khalil Gibran
52. The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical. Julius Erving
53. Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. Henry David Thoreau
54. In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. Winston Churchill
55. Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Khalil Gibran
56. Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. Jean de La Fontaine
57. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. Henry David Thoreau
58. You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal. Johnny Depp
59. Life is hard it's harder if you're stupid. John Wayne
60. The quality of life is more important than life itself. Alexis Carrel
61. We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. William Osler
62. If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life. Arthur Ashe
63. Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. Leo Buscaglia
64. The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. Gustave Flaubert
65. While there's life, there's hope. Marcus Tullius Cicero
66. The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. William James
67. Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. Lucille Ball
68. The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. Albert Schweitzer
69. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. Grandma Moses
70. Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale. Zig Ziglar
71. Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. Viktor E. Frankl
72. Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. Ernest Hemingway
73. Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. Helen Keller
74. My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment. Oprah Winfrey
75. Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life. Eleanor Roosevelt
76. Life is just one damned thing after another. Elbert Hubbard
77. I had no blood relatives till I made some. Andy Dick
78. You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself. Evel Knievel
79. Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. Will Rogers
80. Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else. Leonardo da Vinci
81. A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. Henry David Thoreau
82. There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life. Henry David Thoreau
83. The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. H. L. Mencken
84. I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it. Judy Garland
85. An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. Robert A. Heinlein
86. About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all. Rita Mae Brown
87. Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. William Shakespeare
88. But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. Thomas Jefferson
89. For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus
90. There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. Henry David Thoreau
91. I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore. Steve Jobs
92. In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball. Michael Jordan
93. An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. Robert Louis Stevenson
94. How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it. Jim Valvano
95. You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete. Keith Sweat
96. And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. Sylvia Plath
97. There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. Albert Schweitzer
98. Love is the greatest refreshment in life. Pablo Picasso
99. To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. Benjamin Franklin