Quotes about life

I don’t know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation.

Frank Sinatra

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Blaise Pascal

Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline.

John F. Kennedy

If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

Cesare Pavese

Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.

Samuel Smiles

What I know for sure is that pleasure is energy reciprocated: What you put out comes back. Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life.

Oprah Winfrey

Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life.

Warren Buffett

Life is like a B-movie. You don’t want to leave in the middle of it but you don’t want to see it again.

Ted Turner

The advice I would give to my younger self is very, very simple: Stop burning the candle at both ends and renew your estranged relationship with sleep. You will be more productive, more effective, more creative, and more likely to enjoy your life.

Arianna Huffington