Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Human life is made up of the two elements, power and form, and the proportion must be invariably kept, if we would have it sweet and sound.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.
—Plato
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
—Charles Darwin
Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome.
Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome.
The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer.
What we see is the blossom, which passes.
The rhizome remains.
—Carl Jung
Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome.
Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome.
The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer.
What we see is the blossom, which passes.
The rhizome remains.
—Carl Jung
“Shall I not, from the very housetops, shout again and again, —
There is life for a look at the Crucified One;
There is life at this moment for thee?”
– Charles Spurgeon
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
—Marcus Aurelius
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
—Charles Dickens
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen
—René Descartes
Live so that it doesn’t matter to you whether you conceal or reveal your acts to others.
—Leo Tolstoy
Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
—Aldous Huxley
I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.
—Ernest Hemingway
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
—John Milton
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
—Pablo Picasso
If you understand that your central task in life is love, then when you interact with someone you won’t think about how he might be useful to you, but rather how you might be useful to him. Just do this and you’ll succeed in everything far more than if you worry about yourself.
—Leo Tolstoy
[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
—Nikolai Gogol
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
—Henry David Thoreau
To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life.
—Vincent Van Gogh
“Doctrines in the head, without holiness in the life, are of no service.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life.
—Laozi
The law of God exact he shall fulfill Both by obedience and by love, though love Alone fulfil the law: thy punishment He shall endure by coming in the flesh To a reproachful life and cursed death
—John Milton
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
—Pablo Picasso
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
—Henry David Thoreau
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
—Charles Darwin
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
—Sigmund Freud
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
—Plato
The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.
—Seneca
Life has no meaning a priori.. It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
—Jean-Paul Sartre