Quotes about Life

Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps for gladness.

To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.

Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world.

Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.