Life Quotes
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
Dr. Bilal Ahmad Mohsini
"The dead has only one place to go… up. Wherever you bury them, they will go the same way, up."
Abdul Sattar Edhi
"My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life."
Paul Cezanne
"Your life is your autobiography. Write an epic."
Dr. Bilal Ahmad Mohsini
"This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory."
A. C. Benson
"Those who believed in changing the world were either hungry by circumstance or practised deprivation by choice."
Abdul Sattar Edhi
"Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace."
Charles Spurgeon
"Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime."
Johnny Ball
"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another."
Thomas Merton
"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."
Rabindranath Tagore
"Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life."
Jeanne Calment
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
Winston Churchill
"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
Jesus Christ
"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is."
Bob Feller
"You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own."
Michelle Obama
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
Henry David Thoreau
"I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people."
John Lennon
"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
Abraham Lincoln
"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals."
Holly Madison
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
Mark Twain
"My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that, because we would have drifted apart."
Florence Welch
"You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world."
Tom Brokaw
"'Amazing Grace' is not a book of interviews or onetime snapshots. It's a memoir of a journey that took me into a place I had never been and took over two years of my life. I don't think the people in this book would have said the things to me that they did if they perceived me as a reporter."
Jonathan Kozol
"I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'"
Marina Abramovic
"Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one."
John Lennon
"Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh."
Hugh Jackman
"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
Helen Keller
"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
Ayn Rand