Quotes about life

When you know who you truly are, there is an abiding alive sense of peace. You could call it joy because that’s what joy is: vibrantly alive peace. It is the joy of knowing yourself as the very life essence before life takes on form. That is the joy of Being – of being who you truly are.

Eckhart Tolle

There are boundaries that dictate life: you can only lift so much weight; you can only learn so fast; you can only work so hard; you can only go so far!

Abdul Kalam

I feel blessed that I still have the little Dolly in my heart, I’m still the same girl that wants to squeeze every little drop out of life that I can.

Dolly Parton

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Henry David Thoreau

I’ve striven my whole life for humility, but if I’d ever achieved it, I’d probably be pretty damn proud of that.

Benjamin Franklin

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Francis Bacon

Be nobody’s darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions of your life and wrap around you like a shawl, to parry stones to keep you warm.

Alice Walker

Everything has style, everything’s a little bit larger than life and done with mischief.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes.

Hugh Hefner

I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading.

Amy Bloom