Life Quotes - Page 386

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.

If you cheat yourself in practice, you'll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you'll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.

Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.

Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

I live my life outside of the box because when I die they're going to put me into one!

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Life is about the moments: Don't wait for them, create them!

The dream we are living has absolutely no purpose other than our awakening.

I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.

Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.

If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god, becomes increasingly implausible.

Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else

In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.