Life Quotes About Living & Perspective – Page 7 | GloryQuotes

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

David Herbert Lawrence

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Tennessee Williams

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

John Cheever

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Alan Watts

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Bertrand Russell

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

Germaine Greer

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

Taylor Caldwell

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Rita Mae Brown

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

Jean de la Bruyere

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

James Lovelock

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Agatha Christie

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Byrnes

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Albert Schweitzer

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

George Santayana

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.

Elias Canetti

Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.

Milos Forman

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

William Hazlitt

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Albert Schweitzer

She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.

Kit Williams

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

Mignon McLaughlin

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Leo Burnett

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

Henry James