Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
—Voltaire
Christ our Captain is calling for volunteers; here are the terms: Whosoever shall lose his life for My sake and the Gospel’s the same shall find it.
—Amy Carmichael
No one can truly recognize the equality of people in life as well as children can. So how criminal it is for adults to teach them that there are kings, rich men & celebrities whom you must respect, and servants, workers and beggars whom you’re allowed to treat with condescension.
—Leo Tolstoy
Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
—Henry Ford
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
—Vincent Van Gogh
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
—Thomas Aquinas
One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
I think computer viruses should count as life.. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
—Stephen Hawking
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
—Henry David Thoreau
Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty.
Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life.
Here the secret lies.
Here lies the entire story.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty.
Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life.
Here the secret lies.
Here lies the entire story.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Attend to living; and if you can’t have the honors of the country as the other citizens do, let it suffice you to have bread and live virtuously in Christ and poorly.
—Michelangelo
Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.
—Stephen Hawking
Once perishing in blood I lay,
Creatures no help could give,
But Jesus passed me in the way,
He saw, and bid me live.
—John Newton
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.
—Vincent Van Gogh
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way. – C.S. Lewis
Immersed in the wonder of the Tao, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.
—Laozi
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
—Aldous Huxley
“The ills of life are turned into blessings when once a man believes in Jesus, and fully trusts in him.”
– Charles Spurgeon
When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.
—Blaise Pascal
The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.
—Stephen Hawking
The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.
—Stephen Hawking
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
—Thomas Edison
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
—Henry David Thoreau
Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.
—Stephen Hawking
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
—Henry David Thoreau
It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
“[…] I must mention one other thing that I know; it is that faith in Christ can save a man from every sort of fear in life and in death.”
– Charles Spurgeon
For it all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
—Carl Jung