Life
C. S. Lewis on Life
“We are what we believe we are.”
E. V. Lucas on Tardiness
“I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.”
Robert Louis Stevenson on Life
“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”
Nancy Astor on Change
“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything – or nothing.”
Woody Allen on Life
“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”
Zig Ziglar on Success
“I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.”
James F. Byrnes on Life
“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.”
John Andrew Holmes on Self
“It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.”
Marlon Brando on Television
“If there’s anything unsettling to the stomach, it’s watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.”
Annie Dillard on Life
“There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.”
Sharon Salzberg on Life and Education
“We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.”
Mark Twain on Death
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Al Franken on Mistakes
“Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.”
Stephen Hawking on Science
“If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.”
John F. Kennedy on Power
“The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.”
Josh Billings on Life
“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”
Matthew Arnold on Society
“This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.”
Arthur Rubinstein on Life and Love
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery on Life
“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”
Robert Frost on Work
“The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
Sidney J. Harris on Regret
“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”
Barry LePatner on Experience
“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
Jake Roberts on Experience
“Every moment is an experience.“
Herb Caen on the Past
“I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.”
George Harrison on Direction
“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.”