Quotes tagged with 'life'

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.
—Babs Hoffman life travel

None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an after thought. Eat the delicious food. Walk in the sunshine. Jump in the ocean. Say the truth that you’re carrying in your heart like hidden treasure. Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. There’s no time for anything else.
—Anthony Hopkins life philosophy

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
—Vernon Howard life

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.
—Aldous Huxley government life philosophy

Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.
—Steve Irwin life philosophy

How is it you can keep so serene and stay so utterly insensible with a storm of shells and bullets raining about your head?

Captain Smith, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death, I do not concern myself with that—but to be always ready, whenever it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live. Then all men would be equally brave.
—Stonewall Jackson / God's and Generals life war

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
—Thomas Jefferson life

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
—Thomas Jefferson education life

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
—Thomas Jefferson life

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
—Thomas Jefferson life philosophy

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been "No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
—Steve Jobs life

Success isn't overnight. It's when every day you get a little better than before. It adds up.
—Dwayne Johnson life success

When life puts you in a tough situation, don't 'Why me', just say 'Try me'.
—Dwayne Johnson life

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire.
—Carl Jung life

Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
—Franz Kafka life

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
—Helen Keller life

Some people do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions; and conclusions are not always pleasant.
—Helen Keller life

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
—Helen Keller life

Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart. Until in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom.
—Robert F. Kennedy life

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
—Jack Kerouac life travel