Life - Quotes
We humans are far more than the jobs we do and the careers we pursue. Education is a preparation for life, and only part of that is the mastery of specific work skills.
What is Love? Ask him who lives what is life; ask him who adores what is God.
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man`s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.
Life is just a simple game
Between up and down
Life is just a simple game
Makes things go around
What is down should go up
What is up must go down.
The best gifts of all find the fewest admirers, and that most men mistake the bad for the good, - a daily evil that nothing can prevent, like a plague which no remedy can cure. There is but one thing to be done, though how difficult! - the foolish must become wise, - and that they can never be. The value of life they never know; they see with the outer eye but never with the mind, and praise the trivial because the good is strange to them.
I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone`s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at.
The principal thing you can learn from a professor is how to be a professor - and the chief thing you can learn from, say, a life coach or inspirational speaker is how to become a life coach or inspirational speaker.
If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life.
The rules of life aren`t always clear. Some rules are unwritten. And just when we think we have a handle on the rules something comes along. Things ain`t never gonna be the same.
Life doesn`t owe us a thing. It just is. Like a river, it goes where it goes. You can try to fight against the current.
Some things are just your fault. Some things you screw up and you can`t take back, no matter how hard you try. Some things you pay for the rest of your life.
Variety isn`t just the spice of life; it is at the very heart of how life works.