Quotes About Life

Music Quotes About Life

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Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
Richard Strauss

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
John Cage

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
John Erskine

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
Martin Luther

Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
Henry Louis Mencken

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
Dan Rather

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
Jules Combarieu

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Only sick music makes money today.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
G. K. Chesterton

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
George Bernard Shaw

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
George Eliot

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
Ed Gardner

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Edgar Wilson Nye

Music is essentially useless, as life is.
George Santayana

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot

Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho Marx

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
Homer

My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
J. K. Rowling

I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.
Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
George Santayana

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.
Jean Baptiste Montegut

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
Melvin Maddocks

Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
Fred Rogers

I hate music, especially when it's played.
Jimmy Durante

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
Martin Luther

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

But Bellenden we needs must praise, Who as down the stairs she jumps Sings o'er the hill and far away, Despising doleful dumps.
Author Unknown

Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
Joseph Addison

[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment.
Conrad Potter Aiken

Quotes About Life And Happiness

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Quotes About Life And Happiness

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

- Bill Baughan

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

- Anonymous

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

- Alfred D. Souza

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

- Nisami

Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.

- Shari R. Barr

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

- Buddha

All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.

- Samuel Butler

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

- Josh Billings

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

- Albert Schweitzer

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

- Anonymous

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

- Danny Kaye

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

- Abraham Lincoln

Meaningful Quotes About Life

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Meaningful Quotes About Life

Remember, you're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
- Christopher Robin

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility
- Thomas S. Szasz

I say you ought to write out 10 outrageous goals that are bigger than you because your life isn't meaningful or important unless you're on purpose about something way bigger than you are
- Mark Victor Hansen

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
- Ralph Marston

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
- Hippocrates

Finish each 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 and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
- Aristotle

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Allan K. Chalmers

The fact, in short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an organized society must consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints.
- Samuel Hendel

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
- Katharine Hepburn

It's never too late?in fiction or in life?to revise.
- Nancy Thayer

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
- Blaise Pascal

Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life.
- Sophia Loren

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
- Author Unknown

Deep Quotes About Life

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Deep Quotes About Life

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
~ Will Rogers

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
~ Thomas Edison

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
~ Elizabeth Bibesco

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we took so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened up for us.
~ Helen Keller

When you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you're going through hell, keep going.
~ Winston Churchill

So many of our dreams at first seems impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
~ Christopher Reeve

There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there’s virtually no competition.
~ Steven J. Ross

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

Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.
~ Robert F. Kennedy

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
~ Margaret B. Runbeck

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
~ Aristotle

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
~ Mahatma Gandhied.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
~ Josh Billings

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.
~ Soren Kierkegaard

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
~ Elbert Hubbard

When you are in love, you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.
~ Dr. Seuss

Love and you shall be loved.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go.
~ Anonymous

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
~ Confucius

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.
~ Israel Zangwill

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
~ Theophile Gautier

Life's ups and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.
~ Marsha Sinetar

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
~ Sam Keen

Quotes About Life And Death

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Quotes About Life And Death

The conscience of death accompanies us since childhood, as conscience of the absolute destruction of the only precious treasure of ours: our I.
- E. Morin

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality... The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
- George Santayana

Unlike man, animals, so to speak, live without knowing death. The individual animal enjoys fully the immutability of its gender, being conscious of itself only as an immortal being.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Who am I?" Maybe you've never even asked yourself this question. You might think you already know who you are. Unfortunately, however, it's likely that you don't know who you are at all. And if you don't know your real identity, you're in trouble. You'll spend your life in a kind of dream state—you'll falsely identify yourself as something or someone you aren't. Then, on the basis of this false identification, you'll determine the goals of your life and the purpose of your existence. You use these goals to gauge whether you are making "progress" in life, whether you are a "success." And you are aided and abetted in this delusion by a complex network of relationships with other dreamers. Of course, at death (and sometimes before), the whole thing turns into a nightmare

The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man’s destiny, life, the world.
- E. Morin

The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.
- E. Morin

- Epicurus
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Death is never a trick; nature doesn’t play a comedy; instead, it’s a tragic, colossal and unstoppable drama.
- L. Fuerbach

The irresistible and incessant stream of time carries all creations in its wave, throwing them into the depths of obscurity, regardless of whether they are trivial or, on the contrary, notable and important.
- Ann Comnena

The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb.
- Shakespeare

She died or vanished somewhere, forgotten as a nameless number on a list which was subsequently mislaid.
- Boris Pasternak

Death frights us. Death is a perpetual torment, for which there is no sort of consolation. There is no way by which it may not reach us. We may continually turn our heads this way and that, as if in a suspected country, but we can’t forget death.
- Montaigne

Men come, go, sing and dance, without uttering a word about death. All this is very fine: but, when it comes either to themselves, their wives, their children, or their friends, taking them unawares and unprepared, then what torment, what outcries, what madness and despair.
- Montaigne

Man is a being that knows death, but can’t believe it.

- E. Morin

Funny Quotes About Life

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Funny Quotes About Life

"It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others"- Anonymous

"Life is just a phase you're going through...you'll get over it" - Anonymous

"Never do anything that you wouldn't want to explain to the paramedics" - Anonymous

"When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time" - Anonymous

"It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions" - Anonymous

"If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire" - Anonymous

"The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement" - Anonymous

"An optimist is someone who falls off the Empire State Building, and after 50 floors says, 'So far so good!" - Anonymous

"When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane" - Anonymous

"You can't have everything....where would you put it?" - Anonymous

"Born to be wild - live to outgrow it" - Anonymous

"Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still " - Lou Erickso

Wise Quotes About Life

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Wise Quotes About Life

If you sit down and don't see a fish at the table, the fish is you.
~ Ken Flaton Great Sayings

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
~ Dame Rose Macaulay Meaningful Sayings
Regimen is superior to medicine.
~ Voltaire Popular Sayings

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.Voltaire Popular SayingsDame Rose Macaulay Meaningful Sayings

~ Sir Barnett Cocks Wise Life Quotes

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
~ Samuel Johnson Witty Life Sayings

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
~ Daniel Webster Famous Quote

The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.
~ Mia Hamm Nice Quotes
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.
~ Terry Josephson Inspirational Sayings

A dollar saved is a quarter earned

~ John Ciardi Inspirational Life Sayings

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

~ Alphonse Karr Nice Quotes

Cute Quotes About Life

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Cute Quotes About Life

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein

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

Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.
- Timothy Fuller

Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
- Anton Chekhov

Life is a series of collisions with the future.
- José Ortega y Gasset

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
- Danny Kaye

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage. And then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
- Shakespeare

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
- Wally ‘Famous’ Amos

Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A life without cause is a life without effect.
- Barbarella

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.
- Richard Bach

Life’s not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.
- Cherralea Morgen

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
- Arthur Miller

You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
- Quentin Crisp

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
- Henri Frederick Amiel

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
- Henry David Thoreau

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
- Sean O'Casey

Best Quotes About Life

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Best Quotes About Life

Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.

Margaret Mitchell

The first hundred years are the hardest.
William Mizner

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. Brendan Gill

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
Chief Seattle

The real malady is fear of life, not of death.
Naguib Mahfouz

Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should remember that when you find yourself at the beginning. Steven Rogers

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built as we discern.
Matthew Arnold

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
Malcom Muggeridge

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley

We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life, A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.
Edwin Arnold

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
Anonymous

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Donald Trump

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims. Matthew Arnold

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life is just one damned thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard

The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.
W.J. Davison

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.
Henry J. Tillman

The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and Everything . . . [is] Forty-two.
Douglas Adams

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
Vittorio Alfieri

We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.
Matthew Arnold

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Isaac Asimov

Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
Norman Thomas

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. Mary Manin Morrissey

You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like no one is watching. It's gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work.
Susannah Clark

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
Hans Christian Andersen

Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Peter De Vries

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
R. D. Laing

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert Heinlein

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
Wally 'Famous' Amos

Life is an uncharted ocean. The cautious mariner must needs take Many soundings ere he conduct his barque to port in safety.
Author Unknown

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
William Goldman

Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse.
Author Unknown

Life's but a span, or a tale, or a word, That in a trice, or suddaine, is rehearsed.
Author Unknown

Short Quotes About Life

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Short Quotes About Life

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. But the wind passes over, and soon all disappears; and his place will no more exist.

- PSamls, Bible

Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but soon fade away and are dead.

- Homer,

Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.

-Empedocles

Time is a violent torrent; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by, and another takes its place, before this too will be swept away.

-Marcus Aurelius

Every instant of time is a pinprick of eternity. All things are insignificant, easily changed, vanishing away.

-Marcus Aurelius

Our existence is a short circuit of light between two eternities of darkness.

-Vladimir Nabokov

Life’s short span forbids us to enter on far reaching hopes.

-Horace

Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like a vanishing point for everything.

-Andre Comte-Sponville

How can one meditate on live without meditating too on its brevity, its precariousness, its fragility?

-Andre Comte-Sponville

Happy Quotes About Life

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Happy Quotes About Life

Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

--Helen Keller

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.

--Martha Washington

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

--Montaigne

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy…is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

--Thich Nhat Hanh

No matter how much madder it may make you, get out of bed forcing a smile. You may not smile because you are cheerful; but if you will force yourself to smile, you'll end up laughing. You will be cheerful because you smile. Repeated experiments prove that when man assumes the facial expressions of a given mental mood — any given mood — then that mental mood itself will follow.

— Kenneth Goode

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

— Henri Nouwen

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

--Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.

--John B. Sheerin

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

--Charles Langbridge Morgan

The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.

-- Unknown

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

— Count Leo Tolstoy

The happiest people don't worry too much about whether life is fair or not, they just get on with it.

- Andrew Matthews

For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are that you're not going to be very happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

–Andy Rooney

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

-- Christian Nestell Bovee

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.

--Margaret Bonnano

Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have.

– Unknown

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

— Albert Camus

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste, that they hurry past it.

–Kierkegaard

If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

--Edith Wharton

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

--Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these; but woe unto us if we wait for such experiences; woe unto us if we do not perceive that these things are of secondary importance.

-- Karl Barth

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

-- Diogenes Laertius, Zeno

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.

-- Hebrews 1:9

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

--Agnes Repplier

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

--James Freeman Clarke

I think I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

— Booker T. Washington

If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.

--John Templeton

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

--Buddha

Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others’ happiness.

–The Dalai Lama

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

--C.S. Lewis

Great Quotes About Life

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Great Quotes About Life

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo

It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.
- Jenny Craig

Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.
- Daisaku Ikeda

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
- Elbert Hubbard

Taking action is how you GIVE your gift and live a life of true service to yourself and others. And that doesn't mean that your life's work has to be something that seems grand and noble. The real key to being of service and living your purpose is simply to do what you LOVE to do -- whatever it may be.
- Rebecca Fine

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
- James Allen

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
- Amelia Earhart

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
- Napoleon Hill

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

Quotes About life Lessons

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Quotes About life Lessons

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."

~James Dean

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."

~Robert Byrne

"Growth is the only evidence of life."

~John Henry Newman

"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness."

~Albert Einstein

"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn."

~David Russell

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

"Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. It is the words that speak boldly of your intentions. And the actions which speak louder than the words. It is making the time when there is none. Coming through time after time after time, year after year after year. Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism."

~Abraham Lincoln

"Live a life as a monument to your soul."

~Ayn Rand

"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man."

~Euripides

"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it."

~Danny Kaye

"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."

~William Wordsworth

"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age."

~Aristotle

"Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways."

~Akhenaton

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

~Aesop-

"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted thirty years of his life."

~Muhammad Ali

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."

~Henry David Thoreau

"To be able to look back upon one's life in satisfaction is to live twice."

~Kahlil Gibran

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."

~Sir James Mathew Barrie

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

~Joseph Campbell

"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive..."

~Eleonora Duse

"Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by."

~Carl Sandburg

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what you bring to life."

~Undetermined

"Your life is much more important that you can imagine... it is your first treasure."

Maya Angelou

"There is a place that YOU are to fill that no one else can fill -- something YOU are to do that no one else can do."

~Plato

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it."

~Buddha

"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."

~Dr. Wayne Dyer

"Of all the creatures on earth, only human beings can change their patterns. Man alone is the architect of his destiny... Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."

~William James

"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go."

~Richard David Bach

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

~Albert Einstien

"The biggest mistake that people make is life is not making a living at doing what they most enjoy."

~Malcom S. Forbes

Good Quotes About Life

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Good Quotes Aabout Life

If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent from the universe

- Aquinas St. Thomas

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
- Aurelius Marcus

America, thou half-brother of the world;
With something good and bad of every land

- Bailey Philip James

A man is only as good as what he loves

- Bellow Saul

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy

-Benson A.C.

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

- Bentley Eric

Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you.

- The Bible

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine

- The Bible

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot.

- Billings Josh 1818-1885

He who would do good to another, must do it in minute particulars
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.

- Blake William

Hanging is too good for him, said Mr Cruelty.

- Bunyan John

It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.

- Burke Edmund

People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

- Butler Samuel

Good to the poor, to kindred dear,
To servants kind, to friendship clear,
To nothing but herself severe.

- Carew Thomas

The word „good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

- Chesterton G.K.

The age of strong belief is over, the good is no longer always very good.

- Coles D.L.

You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart,I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

- Cromwell Oliver

The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
The good die early, and the bad die late.

- Defoe Daniel

Justice is too good for some people, and not good enough for the rest.

- Douglas Norman

For present joys are more to flesh and blood
Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

- Dryden John

Look round the habitable world! How few
Know their own good; or knowing it, pursue.

- Dryden John

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

- Euripides c.

Quotes about Life and Love

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Quotes about Life and Love

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

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. ~ Elizabeth Kubler-RossTell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!

For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all life’s hazards, save one: neglect. ~ James Bryden

Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change ~ Jaimie

Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. ~ Charles Schulz

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. ~ Albert Einstein

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. ~ Richard Bach

Life is slowly passing us by. Without a genuine sense of enthusiasm, a zest for life, and a lighthearted spirit, we take our problems and obstacles too seriously. People are seen as burdens instead of gifts. Challenges are dreaded instead of seen as opportunities. ~ Richard Carlson

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. ~ John Lennon

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. ~ Winston Churchill

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible to see the other whole against the sky. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Life's not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow. ~ Cherralea Morgen

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. ~ Anonymous

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do. ~ Anonymous

People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel ~ Irwin Federman

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. ~ Sam Keen

Where there is love there is life. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful. ~ HH the Dalai Lama

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. ~ Mark Twain

I know of only one duty, and that is to love. ~ Albert Camus

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ Robert Heinlein

Love just doesn’t sit there like a stone. It has to be made like bread, remade all the time, made new. ~ Ursula Le Guin

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. ~ Carl Sandburg

Looking back, I have this to regret: that too often when I loved, I did not say so. ~ David Grayson

There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved. ~ George Sand

Famous Quotes about Life

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Famous Quotes about Life

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Anderson

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
Chinese Proverb

The Best Things in Life are Free.
B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill (my favorite)

Live dangerously and you live right.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
Lillian Dickson

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
Chin Ning Chu

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance, and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives.
Albert Einstein

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. Cummings

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

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