Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.
Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.
No water, no life. No blue, no green.
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
I am overwhelmed with gratitude, and my heart is full. 'American Sniper' has broken records, which follows such an honest path of Chris's life.
No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
To be free is to have achieved your life.
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Life is fragile. We're not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you've got.
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.