Quotes about life

The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

William James

I’ve never lifted a single weight in my life.

Michael Phelps

The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.

Swami Vivekananda

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

Alexandre Dumas

I believe that we don’t need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here – to love and to serve.

Albert Einstein

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

George Bernard Shaw

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Malcolm X

I’ve never asked a girl out in my life, they have to ask me.

Michael Jackson

To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.

Desmond Tutu

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Jean-Paul Sartre