Quotes about life

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?

Albert Einstein

Our limited perspective, our hopes and fears become our measure of life, and when circumstances don’t fit our ideas, they become our difficulties.

Benjamin Franklin

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

Plato

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J. K. Rowling

Life in a concentration camp tore open the human soul and exposed its depths.

Viktor Frankl

Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.

Rabindranath Tagore

I research, write, travel and teach. I rarely arrange for spare time. If we do not fill our days with high priority actions they will fill with low priority actions. I would prefer to live my life according to my highest priorities and do what I love, which again is research, write, travel and teach.

John Frederick Demartini

Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.

Rose Kennedy