Life Quotes: Wisdom and Insights for Everyday Living - Page 213

Reflect on the journey of life with profound quotes that capture life’s complexities and beauties. Get inspired to live fully. Page 213 provides more life quotes.

Image of Orison Swett Marden
Life is not mean, it is grand; if it is mean to any, he or she makes it so. God made it glorious. It is paved with diamonds; its banks he fringed with flowers. He overarched it with stars. Around it He spread the glory of the physical universe-suns, moon, worlds, constellations, systems-all that is magnificent in motion, sublime in magnitude, and grand in order and obedience. God would not have attended life with this broad march of grandeur if it did not mean something.
- Orison Swett Marden
Collection: Life
Image of Herman Melville
At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for everything except downright goodfeeling. Life is so short, and so ridiculous and irrational (from a certain point of view) that one knows not what to make of it, unless--well, finish the sentence for yourself.
- Herman Melville
Collection: Life
Image of Norman Mailer
Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes. If pain is fundament, then a blade of grass can know all there is.
- Norman Mailer
Collection: Life
Image of Max Lucado
The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God's mercy.
- Max Lucado
Collection: Life
Image of Bob Marley
Most people think great god will come from the skies, take away everything, and make everybody feel high. But if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.
- Bob Marley
Collection: Life
Image of Malcolm X
How can anyone be against love?
- Malcolm X
Collection: Life
Image of Terence McKenna
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Life
Image of Martin Luther
The great event on Calvary . . . is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is the most durable power in the world, and that it is at bottom the heartbeat of the moral cosmos. Only through achieving this love can you expect to matriculate into the university of eternal life.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Life
Image of Martin Luther
All which happens through the whole world happens through hope. No husbandman would sow a grain of corn if he did not hope it would spring up and bring forth the ear; how much more we are helped on by hope in the eternal life.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Life
Image of H. L. Mencken
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Life
Image of Hilary Mantel
It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it’s no good at all if you don’t have a plan for tomorrow.
- Hilary Mantel
Collection: Life
Image of Brennan Manning
Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation to be a person to be fully and deeply human in Christ Jesus.
- Brennan Manning
Collection: Life
Image of George MacDonald
All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.
- George MacDonald
Collection: Life
Image of Norman Mailer
There are days when I'll wake up and think, oh, I've really been something. You know, it won't be the same without me. And then there are days when I wake up and I say, 'Don't kid yourself. Your contribution was minimal. You changed very little. Everything you hated prospered'.
- Norman Mailer
Collection: Life
Image of Phil McGraw
This is your life and the clock is ticking.
- Phil McGraw
Collection: Life
Image of Bryant H. McGill
You get most things in life not by taking, but by giving.
- Bryant H. McGill
Collection: Life
Image of Katherine Mansfield
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.... This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy- deep down. All is well.
- Katherine Mansfield
Collection: Life
Image of Margaret Mead
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
- Margaret Mead
Collection: Life
Image of Anthony de Mello
When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.
- Anthony de Mello
Collection: Life
Image of John Adams
Let frugality and industry be our virtues.
- John Adams
Collection: Life
Image of Thomas Malthus
The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population, acting, in some degree, unshackled, from the constant habit of emigration.
- Thomas Malthus
Collection: Life
Image of Don Marquis
Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
- Don Marquis
Collection: Life
Image of Bernard Malamud
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
- Bernard Malamud
Collection: Life
Image of Bernard Malamud
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
- Bernard Malamud
Collection: Life
Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Collection: Life
Image of Niccolo Machiavelli
...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Collection: Life
Image of Erwin McManus
When we dwell on the past, we tend to want to live there. When we dream of the future, we want to go there. Our dreams are where God paints a picture of a life waiting to be created.
- Erwin McManus
Collection: Life
Image of Megan McCafferty
I believe that what we get out of life is what we've set ourselves up to get, so there's no such thing as an inconsequential decision. Our destinies are the culmination of all the choices we've made along the way, which is why it's imperative to listen hard to your inner voice when it speaks up. Don't let anyone else's noise drown it out.
- Megan McCafferty
Collection: Life
Image of Bob Marley
Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.
- Bob Marley
Collection: Life
Image of Bob Marley
I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated I would be a damn fool.
- Bob Marley
Collection: Life
Image of Terence McKenna
The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Life
Image of Bryant H. McGill
Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.
- Bryant H. McGill
Collection: Life
Image of W. Somerset Maugham
Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Collection: Life
Image of W. Somerset Maugham
Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Collection: Life
Image of P. T. Barnum
Your success depends on what you do yourself, with your own means
- P. T. Barnum
Collection: Life
Image of Don Marquis
This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!
- Don Marquis
Collection: Life
Image of Guy de Maupassant
I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free; without shackles of any kind, without care, without preoccupation, without thought even of to-morrow. You go in any direction you please, without any guide save your fancy.
- Guy de Maupassant
Collection: Life
Image of Katherine Mansfield
Warm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.
- Katherine Mansfield
Collection: Life
Image of Abraham Maslow
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
Collection: Life
Image of Anthony de Mello
You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion - are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare.
- Anthony de Mello
Collection: Life
Image of Anthony de Mello
There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.
- Anthony de Mello
Collection: Life
Image of Yehudi Menuhin
We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process... We have to keep on learning, creating, applying, by-passing, touching upon, refining and clarifying a number of notions and details that need to be improvised and applied and which, thank God, we cannot foresee. The only rigidity lies in our will, our conviction that we are on the right road and that our initiatives are most pressing.
- Yehudi Menuhin
Collection: Life
Image of John Masefield
What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?
- John Masefield
Collection: Life
Image of Christopher Marlowe
Love me little, love me long.
- Christopher Marlowe
Collection: Life