1000+ Life Quotes | Short Life quotes | Deep Quotes About Life

101. "Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine."

102. "The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment."

103. "Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."

104. "It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin."

105. "Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."

106. "Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are."

107. "There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do."

108. "Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace."

109. "To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart."

110. "When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again."

111. "Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create."

112. "Within the child lies the fate of the future."

113. "No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child"

114. "Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life."

115. "The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air"

116. "We think too much and feel too little."

117. "A man's true character comes out when he's drunk."

118. "I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying."

119. "Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."

120. "What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning."

121. "In the end, everything is a gag."

122. "That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves."

123. "Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough"

124. "Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors."

125. "Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding."

126. "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."

127. "I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it."

128. "I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'"

129. "In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things."

130. "Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny."

131. "The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap."

132. "To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all."

133. "All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged."

134. "Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer."

135. "The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application."

136. "The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity."

137. "There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it."

138. "Time ripens all things; no one is born wise."

139. "Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives."

140. "Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time."

141. "Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid."

142. "The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual."

143. "We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims."

144. "During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk."

145. "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

146. "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

147. "Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."

148. "Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts."

149. "Last year I sang for the Queen of England, met the president of the United States, and got an Emmy and a star on The Walk of Fame. And what did I do? I was just being myself."

150. "I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it."