Quotes about life + Önskan av Karin Boye
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love – Sophocles
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other – Judy Collins
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live – Dorothy Thompson
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? – Vincent van Gogh
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow – Dorothy Thompson
When I hear somebody sigh -Life is tough! I am always tempted to ask, – Compared to what? – Sydney J. Harris
It is worthwhile to live and fight courageously for sacred ideals – Norbert Capek
Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope – Tom Head
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die – Amelia Burr
Without a goal and some effort to reach it, no one can live – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it – Elizabeth Drew
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering – Henri Frederic Amiel
My candle burns at both its ends. It will not last the night. But oh, my foes, and oh, my friends. It gives a lovely light – Edna St. Vincent Millay
There is no shortcut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation and veneer isn’t worth anything – George Washington Carver
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself – Anais Nin
We spend most of our lives conjugating three verbs: to want, to have, and to do – Evelyn Underhill
An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer – Sarah Ban Breathnach
There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened – Mark Twain
Life is just a chance to grow a soul – A. Powell Davies
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood – Marie Curie
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started – Norman Cousins
Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich – Sarah Bernhardt
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
Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy and a tragedy – Mark Twain
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them – John F. Kennedy
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read – Thomas Jefferson
Lord, let me live until I die – Will Rogers
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans – John Lennon
Life has got to be lived, that’s all there is to it – Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses – Marcus Aurelius
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures – Thornton Wilder
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years – Abraham Lincoln
Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by its breathtaking moments – Michael Vance
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than deat – James F. Bymes
Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be – Grandma Moses
A useless life is an early death – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing – Agatha Christie
You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now – Joan Baez
You have to pay the price and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize – Sam Nunn
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough – Seneca
The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life – Mark Twain
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive – Elbert Hubbard
Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are – Bernice Johnson Reagon
Where there is love there is life – Mohandas K. Gandhi
The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring – Oscar Wilde
Love doesn’t make the world go ‘round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile – Franklin P. Jones
Each person must live their life as a model for others – Rosa Parks
Do you love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of – Benjamin Franklin
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards – Soren Kierkegaard
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow – Maria Mitchell
What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness – Baruch Spinoza
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else – Emily Dickinson
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision – Eleanor Roosevelt
True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness – Albert Einstein
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain – Lord Byron
Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood – Ralph Waldo Emerson
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built – Eleanor Roosevelt
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking – Theodore Rubin
Love life and life will love you back – Arthur Rubinstein
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge – Bertrand Russell
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet – Emily Dickinson
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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
It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living – Oliver Wendell Holmes
The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt – Frederick Buechner
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power – Stephen Covey
And now the end is near and so I face the final curtain. My friends, I’ll say it clear. I’ll state my case of which I’m certain. I’ve lived a life that’s full, I’ve travelled each and evr’y highway and more, much more than this, I did it my way – Paul Anka
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives – Annie Dillard
Everything has been figured out, except how to live – Jean-Paul Sartre
Life is God’s novel. Let him write it – Isaac Bashevis Singer
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration – Pearl S. Buck
Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace – Karl Barth
We can discover the meaning in life in three different ways: by doing a deed; by experiencing a value; and by suffering – Victor Frankl
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars – Henry Van Dyke