Life quotes

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.” Terry Pratchett

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.” Terry Pratchett

“He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.” Douglas Adams

“Life is wasted on the living.” Douglas Adams

“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.” Douglas Adams

“But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?” Lois McMaster Bujold

“Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.” Lois McMaster Bujold

“I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.” Thomas Alva Edison

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas Alva Edison

“I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.” Charlie Chaplin

“Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.” Charlie Chaplin

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.” Charlie Chaplin

“All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance.” Henry Ford

“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!” Charlie Chaplin

“What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.” Charlie Chaplin

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” Steve Jobs

“I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building.” Steve Jobs

“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.” Steve Jobs

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” Steve Jobs

“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.” Steve Jobs

“Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.” Steve Jobs

“You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.” Steve Jobs

“You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.” Steve Jobs

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” Steve Jobs

“I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.” Steve Jobs

“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?” Steve Jobs

“Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.” Martin Luther King

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.” John Lennon

“Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.” John Lennon

“All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.” Thomas Mann