Quotes about life

For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent wonder about life itself, his own being among others, wherever he lived for the moment, there was his home.

Pearl S. Buck

In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.

Washington Irving

Whenever we hope for something, what we’re really hoping for is control. We’re hoping for a greater life that we can actually control.

Andy Andrews

We try to grasp too much of life at once; since we think of it as a whole, instead of living one day at a time. Life is a mosaic, and each tiny piece must be cut and set with skill, first one piece, then another.

Orison Swett Marden

Life is – the way God has given it to me was just a platter – a golden platter of life laid out there for me. Its been beautiful.

Johnny Cash

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.

Albert Camus

Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal. For the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it persists for ever.

Alan Watts

A husband should only be a part of your life and not your entire life.

Pamela Anderson

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare