Quotes - Nancy Wald

Nancy Wald:

Child, if you forever hide in the shadows, watching life through a window, you will miss the many lessons learned by simply living.

Quotes - Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson:

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Quotes - Henry Miller

Henry Miller:

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Quotes - Yutang Lin

Yutang Lin:

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Quotes - Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn:

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

Quotes - Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert:

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

Quotes - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Life is a progress, and not a station.

Quotes - Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk:

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

Quotes - Lisa M. Klein

Lisa M. Klein:

What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness.

Quotes - Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert:

What an awful thing life is, isn't it? It's like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.

Quotes - Tyler Perry

Tyler Perry:

You can't build your life around hurts from the past.

Quotes - Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde:

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

Quotes - Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov:

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

Quotes - Shaun Jeffrey

Shaun Jeffrey:

Life was such a precious thing, easily broken.

Quotes - Albert Camus

Albert Camus:

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Quotes - Lynn Davies

Lynn Davies:

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

Idiom - A New Lease of/on Life

A New Lease of/on Life:

If someone has a new lease of life, they have a new enthusiasm for living.

After recovering from her illness, Kathy had a new lease of life and made lots of plans for the future.

When my uncle quit drinking it gave him a new lease of life and he started doing things he hadn't done for years.

Note: A new lease on life (US) / (UK) A new lease of life

Quotes - Susan Beth Pfeffer

Susan Beth Pfeffer:

I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.

Quotes - Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke:

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

Quotes - Santosh Kalwar

Santosh Kalwar:

Life is Pain so is Love.

Quotes - Johann Wolfgang

Johann Wolfgang:

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator.

Quotes - Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo:

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Quotes - Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick:

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Quotes - Raymond Charles Barker

Raymond Charles Barker:

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.

Quotes - Anatole France

Anatole France:

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Quotes - Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou:

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.