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Quotes about Life by Famous People


"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose."-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt creep in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"So many gods, so many creeds;So many paths that wind and wind,While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs." -Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.” -Paulo Coelho
"I could not, at any age, be content to take my placeby the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived.Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason,turn his back on life." -Eleanor Roosevelt 
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.-Thomas Merton
You can use almost any measure when you're speaking of success. You can measure it in a fancy home, expensive car or dress. But the measure of your real success is one you cannot spend – It's the way your child describes you when talking to a friend. -Martín Baxbaum
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” -Albert Einstein
"You give but little when you give of your possessions.It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."-Kahlil Gibran
“I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.”-Audrey Hepburn
"If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?"-Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chiefduty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."-Helen Keller
“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” -Marilyn Monroe
“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”-Christopher Reeve
“In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”-Tony Robbins
Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.-Harold V. Melchert
Life is the only art that we are required to practise without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.-Lewis Mumford
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.-Mark Twain
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.-Steve Jobs
Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled, and the hands are dealt. I do not like the way the cards are shuffled, But yet I like the game and want to play.-Eugene F. Ware
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”-Mark Twain
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”-Mahatma Gandhi

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