Life Quotes About Living & Perspective – Page 4 | GloryQuotes

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

George Bernard Shaw

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Bertrand Russell

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Emile M. Cioran

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

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.

Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Henry David Thoreau

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Elie Wiesel

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Herman Melville

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Arthur Schopenhauer

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

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

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Robert Louis Stevenson

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Frederick Douglass

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Alfred North Whitehead

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Thomas Merton

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

Emile M. Cioran

If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

Keith Miller

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Benjamin Franklin

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.