Quotes about life

Face the brutes. That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

Swami Vivekananda

That which resembles most living one’s life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

Benjamin Franklin

Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.

Will Rogers

You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

Marilyn Monroe

If you have life in you, you have access to the secrets of the ages, for the truth of the universe resides in each and every human being.

Morihei Ueshiba

Thanksgiving is a time of quiet reflection; an annual reminder that God has, again, been ever so faithful. The solid and simple things of life are brought into clear focus.

Chuck Swindoll

It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.

Orison Swett Marden

I want to continue to encourage as many people as I can to open their hearts to life, because if I know anything for sure, it’s that opening my own heart is what has brought me my greatest success and joy.

Oprah Winfrey

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

André Gide