Quotes For Better Life

• Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. Truman Capote

• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Oscar Wilde

• Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. Shania Twain

• Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. Robert Frost

• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau

• Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. Jose Ortega y Gasset

• Some people call it Thursday, I like to call it Friday Eve.

• My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. Nora Ephron

• Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. Thomas Jefferson

• Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Ludwig Wittgenstein

• You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it. Charlie Sheen

• What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

• The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Bertrand Russell

• Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. Hugh Mackay

• The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.' Billy Graham

• 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

• You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song. Sai Baba

• Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years? Paul Ryan

• Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships. Stephen Covey

• Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. Winston Churchill

• Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. Kevyn Aucoin

• The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. Aristotle

• For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment. Viktor E. Frankl

• God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything. Bede Griffiths

• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. Carl Jung

• Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. Tony Robbins

• Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds. Zig Ziglar

• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche

• A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad. Robert Wagner

• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha

• One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. Lucille Ball

• Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. Viktor E. Frankl

• Live the life you've dreamed. Henry David Thoreau

• I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should. Sting

• Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. Helen Keller

• Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. Brooke Shields

• In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. Thomas Merton

• Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch

• The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. Aristotle

• The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. Oprah Winfrey

• I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids. Bo Jackson

• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia

• Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu

• Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it. William Christopher Handy

• If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers! Marilyn Monroe

• Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!' Steven Wright

• A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. Francis Bacon

• As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities. Henry Ford

• I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live. Judy Collins

• People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. Eleanor Roosevelt

• Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. Ani DiFranco

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy. Florence Scovel Shinn

• Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret. Robert E. Lee

• An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. Robert Louis Stevenson

• Unbeing dead isn't being alive. e. e. cummings

• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen Keller

• Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. Ayn Rand

• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson

• There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. Oscar Wilde

• Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it. Al Lopez

• Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. Mark Twain

• When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.' Stephen King

• A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. Jackie Robinson

• The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. John F. Kennedy

• They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. Arthur Schopenhauer

• Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. Pythagoras

• Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. Jean de La Fontaine

• Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life. Eleanor Roosevelt

• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. C. S. Lewis

• The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. Aleister Crowley

• To be free is to have achieved your life. Tennessee Williams

• Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life? Tony Robbins

• My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. George Washington

• The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one. Elbert Hubbard

• Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie Curie

• Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha

• Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it. George Bernard Shaw

• The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. William Hazlitt

• Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. Eleanor Roosevelt

• Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. Will Rogers