Life Quotes

Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.

~ W. C. Fields

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.

~ Ernest Hemingway

I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.

~ Steve Gleason

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

~ Joseph Campbell

Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'

~ Shannen Doherty

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

~ Navjot Singh Sidhu

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

~ Emil Zatopek

Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses... that's also the way you win over constituency.

~ Johnny Isakson

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

~ Yehuda Berg

Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

~ Donald Miller

I don't differentiate between black and Latino actors. We're in the same struggle to be represented in a way that's even close to honest. And I can tell you that the amount of Latino characters I can point at and say, 'That's what my life experience looks like' - I can't think of any off the top of my head besides Jimmy Smits in 'Mi Familia.'

~ Lin-Manuel Miranda

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

~ Sylvia Plath

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

~ Tim Burton

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust - not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.

~ Brennan Manning

As a former Airman First Class in the United States Air Force, like many veterans in America, my military experience played an important part in instilling in me a sense of character and discipline that has served me throughout my life.

~ Chuck Norris

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

~ Carl Jung

Life experience brings out different emotions and different perspectives on things. I just want to be constantly evolving.

~ Kiesza

I want to do everything. That's my problem. Life is short, and I hate the idea of turning down anything. You never know what interesting experience might happen.

~ Joshua Bell

Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.

~ Kallam Anji Reddy

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

~ John Stuart Mill

You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.

~ Aubrey O'day

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

~ Eliza Farnham

The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.

~ Brian Chesky

Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems.

~ Krista Tippett

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.

~ Alberto Moravia

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

~ Virginia Woolf

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.

~ Steve Jobs

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

~ V. S. Naipaul

My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.

~ David Schwimmer

From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters.

~ Sharon Salzberg

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

~ Naomi Shihab Nye

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

~ P. T. Barnum

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

~ Barbara De Angelis

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

~ Madeleine M. Kunin

I know from personal experience how fear and low self worth can cripple one's ability to succeed in life. But with a little support, caring and inspiration, miracles can happen.

~ Richard Hatch

Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.

~ Karen Thompson Walker

The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience.

~ Mitch Kapor

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

~ Seán O'casey

Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.

~ Gary Bauer