Quotes about life

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

Helen Keller

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

Michel de Montaigne

Safety and security don’t just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.

Nelson Mandela

He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient’s manner of life.

Plato

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Samuel Johnson

Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.

Stephen Covey

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

George Eliot

Artists – musicians, painters, writers, poets – always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

Billy Joel

When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

Eckhart Tolle

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe