life quotes

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Life loves the liver of it.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

Life is a dead-end street.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

In every parting there is an image of death.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Time stays, we go.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.