Quotes about Life

There's death coming up, and you better understand this: some of the wrong people die. Be ready for it.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

Life is the art of being well-deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.

There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

Pragmatism asks its usual question. Grant an idea or belief to be true, it says, what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

Psychology is the science of mental life

No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference… between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope.