Life Quotes

"Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words."

"An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls."

"The meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment."

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived."

"An individual human existence should be like a river; small at first, narrowly contained."

"What is the meaning of life? To have something to do."

"The significance of life lies not in what you have accomplished but in who you have become."

"Personal growth requires us to honestly examine our capacity for harm."

"We run carelessly to the precipice after putting something before our eyes to stop us seeing it."

"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."

"Diversion is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries, yet it is also the greatest of our miseries."

"The human condition: inconstancy, boredom, anxiety."

"Variety is needed in all things to avoid satiety."

"Between us and hell or heaven there is but life, which is the frailest thing in the world."

"One lives in the world as one lives in a language."

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."

"We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming."

"We are the sum of our experiences, filtered through the lens of our conditioned responses."

"Our life has meaning only insofar as it has something to do with something beyond itself."

"To be a human being means constantly to solve the problem of how to live."

"The most important question is not where do I come from, but where am I going."

"Life is not a problem to be solved but a task to be accomplished."

"Life demands constant decision making and continuous effort."

"Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries, yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries."

"We are born, live, and die among infinities and infinitesimals."

"The individual is born with no instincts for civilization."

"We are all experiments in environmental determination."

"We are all products of our conditioning; there is no escape from this truth."

"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."