Life Quotes

"I've had a great life, if I had to do it over, I'd do it all the same way."

"Life is a struggle against forces we do not fully understand, and our greatest challenge is to maintain our humanity within it."

"We are all prisoners of our own desires and weaknesses."

"The life and its shadows and sunshine are each made beautiful by the other."

"The most important thing is not the years in your life, but the life in your years."

"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."

"Life is but a slow accumulation of small disappointments."

"Life is made up of marble and mud."

"The greatest riches are those of the mind."

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

"Monotony is the father of all those gnawing envies by which men are disappointed in this world."

"The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your questions."

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

"In the morning of life work is; in the midday give counsel; in the evening pray."

"The life of each individual is an act of apostleship."

"Life is a tragedy viewed from a distance, but a comedy when examined closely."

"The greatest tragedies often come from the most ordinary circumstances."

"We are all authors of tragedy in someone else's story."

"The deepest forms of suffering are those we inflict upon ourselves."

"We are all simultaneously the hero and villain in our own stories."

"The pursuit of pleasure often leads to the discovery of pain."

"The greatest tragedy is a life unlived."

"I have always felt that the moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours."

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

"The great fact in life, the always possible thing, is to find where you belong."

"The personal life deeply lived always expands into universal themes and greater circumstances."

"I wanted to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience."

"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and health and fortune and friends."

"I am but a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief."

"The great object of life is sensation—to feel that we exist."