Quotes about life

Books are good enough in their own way but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.

Carl Jung

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

Lou Holtz

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

George Washington

The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature.

Isaac Asimov

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

George Orwell

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

Sarah Dessen

I’ve never found any elevators in life; I’ve had to climb to every place worth reaching. And now I think it over, I wish it so with everybody, for then no one would rise any higher than he deserves to go.

Orison Swett Marden

I don’t think you can be in public life without being called bad names.

Martin Luther King Jr.