We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Life
Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
-Wilson Mizner
Life is life – Whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
-Sri Aurobindo
Let life be a deep let-go. See God opening millions of flowers every day without forcing the buds.
-Rabindranath Tagore
"The Gardener"
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
-Audrey Hepburn
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil.
-Albert Schweitzer "Albert Schweitzer"
You ask: What is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: Do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
-Freeman Dyson
"The Meaning of Life"
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
