Quotes about life

From this moment on I know exactly where my life will go: seems that all I really was doing was waiting for love.

John Lennon

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.

George Orwell

For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe — the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.

John F. Kennedy

If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

Sigmund Freud

Your manner of life now is already determining your life in those years of old age and retirement, without your realizing it even, and perhaps without your giving enough thought to it. One must therefore prepare oneself for retirement.

Paul Tournier

He was as calm as a god who has seen both life and death, and seen nothing of particular importance in either of them.

William Faulkner

I’ve been famous my entire life; I don’t know any other way.

Cher

There’s no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol – the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.

Pamela Anderson

God is like the ocean and we’re like that glass of water. We try to sustain life and do all that the source tells us that we are capable of doing, but if we do it alone, we wither away and collapse instead.

Wayne Dyer