Life Quotes

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Life should be great rather than long.

Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

We live in the world when we love it.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

Before my bed, the bright moonlight — I wonder if it's frost upon the ground.

In the cicada's cry no sign can foretell how soon it must die.

Sick on my journey — my dreams wander over withered fields.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

The flow of the river is ceaseless, and its water is never the same.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

One is not born, but becomes a woman.

Man is condemned to be free.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Life is a dream.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.

While we wait for life, life passes.

No man ever steps in the same river twice.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

You become what you believe.