Quotations

About Life

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.

Alexis

Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently.

Palladas

hands planting a tree

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson

It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our noses is what we see last.

William Barrett

To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.

William James

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Robert Byrne

The grand essentials of life are something to do, something to love, something to hope for.

Thomas Chalmers

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it.

Marcus Aurelius

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

Seneca

(7 B.C. - 65 A.D.)

Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in you don't get anything out.

W. C. Handy

Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.

Thomas Fuller

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

John Lennon

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Katherine Hepburn

We must be willing to relinquish the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.

W. Humboldt

Everything that happens to us leaves some trace behind; everything contributes imperceptibly to make us what we are.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Unrest of spirit