Quotes That Make You Think

• Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference. Virginia Satir

• Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. Lao Tzu

• Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. Aristotle

• Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. Booker T. Washington

• One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli

• A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. Muhammad Ali

• All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. Andre Breton

• You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt

• Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. Karen Horney

• All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. Abraham Lincoln

• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin

• The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Steve Jobs

• Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. Joseph Campbell

• This is the strangest life I've ever known. Jim Morrison

• School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? Billie Joe Armstrong

• There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life. Henry David Thoreau

• Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Gilda Radner

• A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life. Jean Ingelow

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

• Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. Erich Fromm

• You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. Henry Drummond

• Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. Vince Lombardi

• I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed. Steve Jobs

• The only disability in life is a bad attitude. Scott Hamilton

• Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life. Tony Robbins

• Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. Richard Bach

• Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. Mary McLeod Bethune

• You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't. Caleb Carr

• Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future. William Wordsworth

• The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me. Oprah Winfrey

• Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. Dave Barry

• Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations. Tom Brady

• I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party. Ron White

• Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. Humphry Davy

• Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children. Sitting Bull

• There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments. Chris Rock

• A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. Niccolo Machiavelli

• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso

• I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk. Tony Robbins

• With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. William Wordsworth

• The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. Bill Watterson

• Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. Arnold H. Glasow

• The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. Joseph Campbell

• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo

• My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain. Tony Robbins

• I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else. Kurt Cobain

• If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. Jim Rohn

• The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. Michel de Montaigne

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

• Character develops itself in the stream of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance. Friedrich Nietzsche

• 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

• The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. Henri Frederic Amiel

• Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery. Wayne Dyer

• I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. Emily Bronte

• Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. Norman Vincent Peale

• Children make your life important. Erma Bombeck

• I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life. Jerry Lewis

• Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Bertrand Russell

• When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up. Les Brown

• You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself. Evel Knievel

• Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it. Charles R. Swindoll

• When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection. Debra Messing

• The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. Elbert Hubbard

• Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves. Bill Hicks

• It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life. Jimi Hendrix

• My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. Winston Churchill

• Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting. Edward de Bono

• We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it. Lauryn Hill

• Above our life we love a steadfast friend. Christopher Marlowe

• The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. Henry David Thoreau

• 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

• I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong. Tom Welling

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

• I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas. Ron Paul

• Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death. Buddha