Famous Quotes About life

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Bad things do happen how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.