Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music is my life and my life is music.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
—Ernest Hemingway
Life well spent is long.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.
—Blaise Pascal
Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.
—Seneca
If God had granted all the silly prayers I’ve made in my life, where should I be now? – C.S. Lewis
When I read a good book I wish that life were 3000 years long.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is the proper task of life.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, & the world around us.
—Socrates
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.
—Henry Ford
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
—Seneca
All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.
—Charlie Chaplin
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
—Charles Darwin
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
—Charles Dickens
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
—Plato
However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there’s life, there’s hope.
—Stephen Hawking
Never believe that others can show you the way to a good life and that you can’t find it yourself. Pay attention to the inner voice of your reason alone and not to the orders and suggestions of others.
—Leo Tolstoy
Ah how we wander from goal to goal of our life, and often it seems as if one thread of consciousness did not tie the far parts together.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is a mystery.
It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time.
I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
The more compassion there is in a person the better and happier his life is.
—Leo Tolstoy
I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun.
—Thomas Edison
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
—Carl Jung
While we wait for life, life passes.
—Seneca
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and -what will perhaps make you wonder more – it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
—Seneca
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. … The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
—Seneca
Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.
—Seneca
It is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.
—Seneca
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
—Seneca