Life quotes

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Henry Ellis

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

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

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace

Life loves the liver of it.
Maya Angelou

Life must be lived as play.
Plato

Life well spent is long.
Leonardo da Vinci

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Mel Brooks

May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
Hugh Leonard

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
Pierre de Courbertin

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
Wayne Dyer

Life beats down and imprisons the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler

A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed–I well know. For it’s a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clemenceau

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Then figure out how to sell it for $5.00 a glass.
John Woodman

The most important of life’s battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
David O. McKay

It’s your life, your one and only life-so take excellence very personally.
Scott Johnson

Life is God’s novel. Let him write it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer