Life quotes

“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.” Anais Nin

“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.” Anais Nin

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.” Barack Obama

“My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.” Barack Obama

“Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.” Barack Obama

“With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.” Barack Obama

“When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.” Barack Obama

“You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.” Barack Obama

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” Henry Miller

“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.” Henry Miller

“Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.” Henry Miller

“Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.” Henry Miller

“One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.” Henry Miller

“True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.” Henry Miller

“Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.” Henry Miller

“Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.” Henry Miller

“Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.” Henry Miller

“Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.” Henry Miller

“Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.” Henry Miller

“Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.” Henry Miller

“I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.” Henry Miller

“In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.” Henry Miller

“Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.” Henry Miller

“Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.” Horace Mann

“One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.” John Stuart Mill

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

“A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.” John Stuart Mill

“The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.” Marilyn Manson

“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” Niccolo Machiavelli

“A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.” Niccolo Machiavelli