Quotes about Life
Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower he fleeth as it were a shadow and never continueth in one stay.
— Anonymous
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night in a second-class hotel.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.
— Hildegard of Bingen
For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.
— Steven Pressfield
It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.
— Rick Warren
Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.
— Marcus Aurelius
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
— Harry S. Truman
You nourish your soul by fulfilling your destiny.
— Harold S. Kushner
Our lives will depend upon the decisions which we make, for decisions determine destiny.
— Thomas Monson
We never conceive the greatness of our fates.
— Henry David Thoreau
We need to expand the idea of choice to be about all the choices we make in our lives: including which country we choose to live in so we can be whole and full women.
— Pramila Jayapal