Famous Life quotes

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning. Contemplate them thus. Buddha

Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars. Serbian proverb

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde

If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don't like, who can bring you happiness in spite of what other people say or believe, look in a mirror and say this magic word: Hello! Richard Bach

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. Robert Stevenson

The meaning of life is that it stops - Franz Kafka

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.  Bernard Shaw

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes. Johann Goethe

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. Indian Proverb

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about - Oscar Wilde

Vanity of vanities. All is vanity. All is vanity and vexation of spirit. Ecclesiastes

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

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. George Sand

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is. I believe in the latter. Albert Einstein

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning. John Newman

Life is a game, the first rule of which is that IT IS NOT A GAME. Alan Watts

In the fight between you and the world, back the world. Franz Kafka

Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself. Hermann Hesse

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. Bernard Shaw

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

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. Horace Walpole

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. Oscar Wilde

While we are postponing, life speeds by. Seneca

Life well spent is long. Leonardo da Vinc

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Johann Goethe

We know what we are, but know not what we may be. William Shakespeare

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.  Bernard Shaw

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. Elton Trueblood

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill

Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours."
Swedish Proverb