Life quotes
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The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgment and profession of the truth by each one of us.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
Simone de Beauvoir
Without a firm idea of himself and the purpose of his life, man cannot live, and would sooner destroy himself than remain on earth, even if he was surrounded by bread.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.
Corazon Aquino
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Immanuel Kant
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
Amelia E. Barr
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
Oscar Wilde
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Albert Camus
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie Chaplin
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
Thomas Arnold
Life is too serious to be taken seriously.
Anonymous
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell
I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.
Chavela Vargas
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
Michel de Montaigne
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.
Benjamin E. Mays
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
Michel de Montaigne
I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.
William Hazlitt
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Ernest Hemingway
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.
Buddha
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.
Albert Einstein
