Quotes about Life

One never fully understands a situation until they are in it. - Aratee

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

Like a river my life hurries by If I jump in perhaps I might drown But if I don't then my spirit could die before that change on the weather comes 'round - Eric Bogle

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

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is only time we have - Art Buchwald

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. - Robert Cody

For a human there are but three great events: to be born, to live and to die. She doesn't know she is born, he suffers of dying and she forgets to live. - Jean de la Bryère

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself - Albert Einstein

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage which we did not take, towards the door we never opened into the rose garden. - T. S. Eliot

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

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

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. - Robert Frost

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length - Robert Frost

Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway. - Elbert Hubbard

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly - Langston Hughes

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. - Thomas Jefferson

Knowledge is love and light and vision - Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming of it. - Helen Keller

Mankind must put an end to War, or War will put an end to Mankind. - John F. Kennedy

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

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending. - Abraham Lincoln

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

We are the hero of our own story - Mary McCarthy

Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky. - Alan Moore

Not knowing ....was hard; knowing...was harder. - Toni Morrison

Dreams are the illusions in the book your soul is writing about you - Marsha Norman

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. - Henri Nouwen

All life represents a risk, and the more lovingly we live our lives the more risks we take - M. Scott Peck

If life were predictable it would cease to be life and be without flavor - Eleanor Roosevelt

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. - Bertrand Russell

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now. - Beverly Sills

To finish is a sadness to a writer a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done. - John Steinbeck

The only real elegance is in the mind. If you've got that, the rest follows from it. - Diana Vreeland

I would rather have 15 minutes of wonderful, then a life time of nothing special - Unknown

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make on - Unknown

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end - Unknown

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead to where there is no path and leave a trail - Unknown

Without order nothing can exist - without chaos nothing can evolve. - Unknown

Don't let the darkness of the past cover the brightness of the future. - Unknown

Just when you think things can't get any worse, they do. I've learned that life is like hour glass sand. Sooner or later, everything hits rock bottom, but all you have to do is be patient and wait for something to turn everything back around. - Unknown

Life is not about what I've done, what I should've done, what I could've done... it's about what I can do and what I will do. - Unknown

There are some things in life that don't go the way you want them to or the way you think they should, but you can't dwell on these because you'll miss out on other opportunities. Don't give up one something just because you don't think things will work, you won't know unless you give it a try. But don't hold onto something that left a long time ago, because sooner or later you'll realize some things just aren't meant to be. - Unknown

Life is nothing more than a test, the hardest test that anyone can ever take. There is no studying or knowing the next question. Each question gets harder, but we must pass, we must push to the limit, if even sometimes on faith alone. - Unknown

Three things of life that are most valuable - Love, self-confidence & friends. - Unknown

I give you fair warning, before you attempt me further, I am not what you supposed, but far different - Walt Whitman