Life Quotes

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

~ Samuel Butler

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

~ John Muir

I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

~ Ann Voskamp

As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities where I'd resided my adult life.

~ David Mixner

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. That's it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.

~ Joanna Lumley

Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say 'we,' I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced.

~ Gael Garcia Bernal

The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.

~ Steven Pinker

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

~ Samuel Johnson

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

~ Jean Giraudoux

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

~ Jules Verne

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

~ Andrea Arnold

Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it. That's human nature to believe that beauty is everything.

~ Marina And The Diamonds

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

~ Marie Curie

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

~ Sara Teasdale

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

~ Bob Marley

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

~ Marlo Thomas

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

~ Sai Baba

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

~ Hamlin Garland

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

~ William Shakespeare

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

~ Aldous Huxley

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

~ Charles Lindbergh

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

~ Truman Capote

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

~ Charles Mackay

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.

~ Henri Poincaré

When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!

~ José Rizal

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.

~ Joni Mitchell

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

~ Leo Tolstoy

How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable to this, nor the state of the noble and rich men of the earth. All this is artificial life, the inventions of vanity and grasping ambition, by which we have spoiled the man of nature and of pure, simple, and undistorted impulses.

~ William Godwin

We are a family that lives probably 90 percent on wild game. We're certainly working our way toward 100 percent self-sufficient. Looking to raise chickens for eggs, things of that nature, start a garden. We enjoy the simple life.

~ Shawn Michaels

Whoever dedicates his life to searching out particular connections of nature will spontaneously be confronted with the question how they harmoniously fit into the whole.

~ Werner Heisenberg

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

~ Hubert H. Humphrey

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

~ Jane Austen

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

~ Joseph Addison

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

~ Joseph Conrad

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

~ James G. Frazer