Life Quotes

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The love of husband and wife, which is creative of new human life, is a marvellously personal sharing in the creative love of God who brings into being the eternal soul that comes to every human being with the gift of human life.

~ Vincent Nichols

Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.

~ Mary Oliver

I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is that, yes, I do sing and write all my own music. That is something that I hold really dear. And yeah, I made a fool of myself in front of the world, but it was also great to pick myself back up and go on tour.

~ Ashlee Simpson

It's easy to look at the things of this world to solve our challenges and obstacles in life, but when we submit our lives to Christ, His grace, mercy, peace and love will bring true fulfillment to our lives.

~ Bethany Hamilton

Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.

~ Vidya Balan

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

~ Tony Robbins

I love life. There's so much to learn and see all the time, and nothing nicer for me than to wake up, and the sky is blue.

~ Pattie Boyd

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

~ Paulo Coelho

The way to know life is to love many things.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.

~ Lana Del Rey

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

~ Bertrand Russell

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

~ Princess Diana

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

~ Victor Hugo

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

~ Carl Sandburg

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

~ Wayne Dyer

Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.

~ Bruce Dickinson

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

~ Euripides

I'm a really nostalgic person. I love taking photos and video and having memories. I remember all my childhood videos that my dad used to take. I think that's really what life is about - especially when you start a family of your own.

~ Kim Kardashian

There is a Fountain of Youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

~ Sophia Loren

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

~ Petrarch

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

~ Cesare Pavese

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

~ Mary Oliver

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

~ George Sand

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

~ André Breton

I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.

~ Harold Feinstein

I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children.

~ Hugh Hefner

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

~ Bertrand Russell

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

~ Sophocles

Love is energy of life.

~ Robert Browning

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

~ Thomas Moore

The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

~ Jeanette Winterson

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

~ Lydia M. Child

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

~ Henry Drummond

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

~ Aphra Behn

If you've got love you've got life, if you can love you can live.

~ Kim Casali

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

~ Andrew J. Bernstein

There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.

~ Ayelet Waldman

Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work.

~ Carl Honoré

The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.

~ Regina Brett