Quotes about life

One of my major shortcomings – I’m vindictive. I don’t know why that is. Even in petty things in my life I tend to strike back. It’s a lot more pleasurable a sensation than feeling threatened.

Andy Rooney

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can grow only as long as we are interested.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Your higher self is always nudging you toward a resolution of the conflicts that you experience in your life, so that you will have room for serenity and harmony.

Wayne Dyer

My life carries its own meaning in itself.

Albert Schweitzer

No matter what’s happening in your life, you can change the trajectory of events by closing your eyes, reviewing your thought and behavior, and sending love wherever you’ve been withholding it.

Marianne Williamson

For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

T. S. Eliot

Every man’s happiness depends from himself, but behold thy life is almost at an end, whiles affording thyself no respect, thou dost make thy happiness to consist in the souls, and conceits of other men.

Marcus Aurelius

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Robert Frost

You’ve never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old Pilgrims praying when they didn’t have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was praying for.

Will Rogers

The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is very close to the center of a nation’s purpose…and is a test of the quality of a nation’s civilization.

John F. Kennedy