Life Quotes

"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way"." ~ C.S. Lewis

"Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die."
Amelia Burr

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." ~ Kahlil Gibran

"The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate." ~ Erich Fromm

"All through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, always." ~ Mahatma Gandhi

"Between the desire and the spasm, between the potency and the existence, between the essence and the descent, falls the shadow. This is the way the world ends." ~ T.S. Eliot

"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate." ~ Socrates

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. ~ Voltaire

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. ~ Albert Einstein

"If you chase two rabbits, both will escape." ~ Ancient Proverb

"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body." ~C.S. Lewis

"Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you."
~Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

"Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it."
~Martin Luther King Jr

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
~Marie Curie Polish

"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream."
~Edgar Allan Poe

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
~Confucius

"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life."
~Leo Buscaglia

"And did you get what you wanted in this life even so? I did And what is it you wanted? To call myself beloved To feel myself beloved on the earth."
~Raymond Carver

"There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way."
~Christopher Morley

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear."
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger."
~Nietzsche

"It is to live that requires courage, not to die"
~Victoria Holt

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
~Albert Einstein

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."
~Jean de la Bruyère

"You only live once; but if you work it right, once is enough."
~Joe E. Lewis

"Life is worth living, we just need to figure out how."
~Jean Bull

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
~Robert Frost

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."
~Richard Bach

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
~Buddha

"The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live."
~Joan Borysenko

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
~Robert Byrne

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
~Jean-Paul Sartre

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
~Harvey Fierstein

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
~Soren Kierkegaard

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