Life Quotes About Living & Perspective – Page 5 | GloryQuotes

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

Samuel Richardson

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

Emile M. Cioran

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

Charles Baudelaire

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Bertrand Russell

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

William Weld

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Erich Fromm

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Henri Frederic Amiel

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

Christopher Morley

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

Thomas Jefferson

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

Annie Leibovitz

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Albert Einstein

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.

Marilyn vos Savant

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Emily Dickinson

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Francis Quarles

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.

Matthew Henry

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

Hannah Arendt

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Socrates

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

Saint Augustine

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

Lyndon B. Johnson