Quotes on Life

Collection of ancient quotes about life. Life is the beginning of the physical body.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

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The greatest pleasure of life is love.

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It’s not through words but actions that I want to set the luster on my life.

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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

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Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.

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He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

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An evil life is a kind of death.

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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away… A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

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While there’s life there’s hope, and only the dead have none.

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The happy life is a life that is in harmony with its own nature.

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Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves. The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

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I will suffer nothing as great as death without glory.

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Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

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I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

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If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then
adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common
occurrence and there are often sudden storms that sweep the helmsman in
an adverse direction, I conclude that this man, although he lauds
navigation, really forbids me to launch my ship.

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

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Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

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The part of life we really live is small.’ For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.

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Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.

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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

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Life is opinion.

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Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each
day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The
greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and
loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and
abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are
you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.

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Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of the elements into each other. Such imaginings wash away the filth of life on the ground.

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They say that life is an accident, driven by sexual desire, that the universe has no moral order, no truth, no God.

Driven by insatiable lusts, drunk on the arrogance of power, hypocritical, deluded, their actions foul with self-seeking, tormented by a vast anxiety that continues until their death, convinced that the gratification of desire is life’s sole aim, bound by a hundred shackles of hope, enslaved by their greed, they squander their time dishonestly piling up mountains of wealth.

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

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Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

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Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

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The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man’s education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.

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Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

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What really ruins our character is the fact that none of us looks back over his life.

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The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

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The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in us.

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Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

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It is not death that a man should fear, but rather he should fear never beginning to live.

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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the Thou should not grieve.

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Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

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