Quotes about Life
I sing the body electric.
— Walt Whitman
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
— Peter Kreeft
This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.
— St. John Chrysostom
Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
— Aristotle
Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.
— Oscar Wilde
It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.
— Jim Rohn
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
— Henry Ward Beecher
My philosophy? Have a laugh for as long as you can and don't get run over. Or stabbed.
— Ricky Gervais
Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.
— Cicero
I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.
— Amy Grant
American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?
— Herbert Hoover