Quotes about Life
Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?
— George Eliot
If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.
— Amy Grant
Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.
— Confucius
I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.
— Albert Camus
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.
— Peter Kreeft
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