Life - Quotes & Sayings

Life is a work in progress.

Jeff Rich

Life is a DNA software system.

Craig Venter

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

Grandma Moses

Life is never easy for those who dream.

Robert James Waller

To live is to think.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Tennessee Williams

The less routine the more life.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Life is too short to work so hard.

Vivien Leigh

There is no wealth but life.

John Ruskin

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

Publilius Syrus

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Theodor Adorno

We pass through this world but once.

Stephen Jay Gould

Life is wasted on the living.

Douglas Adams

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

Samuel Smiles

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

George Herbert

He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.

Tertullian

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

Audrey Hepburn

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

Henri Frederic Amiel

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

Ursula Andress

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Saint Augustine

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Isaac Asimov

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

James Allen

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Emily Dickinson

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Albert Schweitzer

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

Charles M. Schulz

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Karen Horney

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Lord Acton

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Euripides

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

John Henry Newman

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life is a horizontal fall.

Jean Cocteau

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Laurence Sterne

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.

Robert De Niro

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Elie Wiesel

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

Jerry Seinfeld

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Alexis Carrel

I want to live my life, not record it.

Jackie Kennedy

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Seneca

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Harvey Fierstein

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow