Life quotes

“I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid.” Steven Spielberg

“Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.” Carl Sagan

“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.” Ayrton Senna

“I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.” Ayrton Senna

“Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.” Ayrton Senna

“One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.” Jean-Paul Sartre

“Life begins on the other side of despair.” Jean-Paul Sartre

“Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.” Jean-Paul Sartre

“All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.” Jean-Paul Sartre

“The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.” Jean-Paul Sartre

“One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.” Jean-Paul Sartre

“Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.” Charles Stanley

“The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.” Charles Stanley

“Thank the Lord for using each person as a tool in your life to deepen your insight into His grace and conforming you to the image of His Son.” Charles Stanley

“Take steps each day to be sure your life expresses commitment to Jesus.” Charles Stanley

“One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.” Charles Stanley

“People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.” Charles Stanley

“These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.” John Steinbeck

“I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?” John Steinbeck

“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan

“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan

“Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.” Michael Jordan

“I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.” Michael Jordan