Quotes on Life

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Author: Confucius

There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.

Author: Aaliyah

There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.

Author: Aaliyah

I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.

Author: Aaliyah

My wife bought an extra life insurance policy on me.

Author: Willie Aames

God continues to work miracles in my life.

Author: Willie Aames

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

Author: Hank Aaron

We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.

Author: Mahmoud Abbas

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

Author: Cleveland Abbe

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

Author: Cleveland Abbe

Life is a canvas waiting to be painted with colors of adventure and experiences.

Author: Samantha Greene

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

Author: Jack Abbott

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Author: Lyman Abbott

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Author: Lyman Abbott

American Idol has taken over my whole life.

Author: Paula Abdul

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie

But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country.

Author: John Abizaid

Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

Author: Edmond About

If my life was a song it would be 'Who Let The Dogs Out'.

Author: Casey Abrams

Embrace the unknown, for it is where the most beautiful surprises lie waiting.

Author: Harper White

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Author: Diane Ackerman

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Author: Diane Ackerman

What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones.

Author: Jensen Ackles

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

Author: Lord Acton

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

Author: Abigail Adams

Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.

Author: Alvin Adams

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

Author: Ansel Adams

In the tapestry of life, we are more than just threads - we are the brilliant colors that bring it to life.

Author: Maya Sanchez

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

Author: Bryan Adams

Life is wasted on the living.

Author: Douglas Adams

What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.

Author: George Adams

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.

Author: Henry Adams

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

Author: Henry Adams

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Author: Henry Adams

In the dance of life, don't be afraid to improvise - sometimes the best moves come from your heart, not the steps on the page.

Author: Sofia Ramirez

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

Author: James Adams

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Author: James Adams

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.

Author: Maude Adams

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

Author: Samuel Adams

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

Author: Samuel Adams

The best things in life are silly.

Author: Scott Adams

You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

Author: Scott Adams

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Author: Jane Addams

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Author: Joseph Addison

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Author: Joseph Addison

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Author: Joseph Addison

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Author: Joseph Addison

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Author: Joseph Addison

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Author: Joseph Addison

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Author: Joseph Addison

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

Author: George Ade

If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.

Author: Naima Adedapo

When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.

Author: Kate Adie

It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

Author: Kate Adie

I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

Author: Kate Adie

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

Author: Isabelle Adjani

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.

Author: Isabelle Adjani

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

Author: Isabelle Adjani

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Author: Alfred Adler

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

Author: Felix Adler

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

Author: Felix Adler

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

Author: Felix Adler

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.

Author: Renata Adler

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

Author: Stella Adler

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

Author: Stella Adler

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Author: Theodor Adorno

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

Author: Theodor Adorno

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Author: Theodor Adorno

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

Author: Aeschylus

What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

Author: Aeschylus

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

Author: Aeschylus

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

Author: Aeschylus

Life is a novel with endless chapters; make each page worth turning.

Author: Samantha Green

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.

Author: Scipio Africanus

Life is a journey that unfolds one step at a time, each step shaping our destiny.

Author: Amanda Lopez

In the dance of life, our footsteps leave a lasting rhythm on the stage of time.

Author: Sophia Torres

I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life.

Author: Jenny Agutter

I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life.

Author: Clay Aiken

Life's greatest lessons are often learned in the most unexpected moments.

Author: Samantha Greene

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

Author: Alvin Ailey

In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.

Author: Alvin Ailey

New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

Author: Daniel Akaka

I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.

Author: Malin Akerman

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

Author: Akhenaton

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.

Author: Akhenaton

Life is a canvas waiting for your brushstrokes of courage and creativity to paint a masterpiece of resilience.

Author: Maya Thompson

In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday.

Author: Edward Albert

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

Author: Mitch Albom

The less routine the more life.

Author: Amos Alcott

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Author: Amos Alcott

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

Author: Louisa Alcott

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

Author: Alan Alda

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Author: Alan Alda

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

Author: Alan Alda

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

Author: Alan Alda

The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths.

Author: Robert Aldrich

I don't think violence on film breeds violence in life. Violence in life breeds violence in films.

Author: Robert Aldrich

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Author: Sholom Aleichem

Embrace the chaos of life, for within it lies the hidden beauty of unexpected possibilities.

Author: Sophia Martinez

The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need for organization and order in civilian life.

Author: Bill Alexander

The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.

Author: Christopher Alexander

The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.

Author: Jason Alexander

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

Author: Samuel Alexander

Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

Author: Samuel Alexander

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

Author: Sasha Alexander

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.

Author: William Alexander

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

Author: William Alger

All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.

Author: Ahmed Ali

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.

Author: Ayaan Ali

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Author: Muhammad Ali

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Author: Muhammad Ali

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

Author: Muhammad Ali

Life is a canvas, and each day is a brushstroke painting our story of resilience and courage.

Author: Sophia Evans

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Author: Muhammad Ali

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Author: Dante Alighieri

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

Author: Saul Alinsky

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

Author: Saul Alinsky

Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.

Author: Gary Allan

From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.

Author: Wayne Allard

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

Author: Charles Allen

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

Author: Fred Allen

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Author: Fred Allen

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Author: James Allen

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Author: James Allen

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

Author: James Allen

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.

Author: James Allen

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

Author: James Allen

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

Author: Karen Allen

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

Author: Karen Allen

Life is too short not to do a little practical joking.

Author: Krista Allen

I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.

Author: Ralph Allen

I think my perception of my own life is different and the fact that Lauren and myself are together. I've never felt this free or happy and so that permeates onto my onstage persona and to my working environment.

Author: Rick Allen

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.

Author: Tom Allen

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Author: Woody Allen

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Author: Woody Allen

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Author: Woody Allen

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Author: Woody Allen

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Author: Woody Allen

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Author: Woody Allen

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

Author: Isabel Allende

There's a lot more to life than how fat or thin you are.

Author: Kirstie Alley

You're not going to live your life unscathed.

Author: Kirstie Alley

Look for someone who has a complete life without you in it. If you have a person you don't need for anything, that's ideal. You're just together because you really want to be.

Author: Kirstie Alley

It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.

Author: Kirstie Alley

I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.

Author: William Allingham

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

Author: Gordon Allport

Life is like an analogy.

Author: Aaron Allston

For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies.

Author: June Allyson

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Author: Pedro Almodovar

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

Author: Pedro Almodovar