Quotes about life

Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say “Long live impermanence!”

Thich Nhat Hanh

The megalopsychos cannot let anyone else, except a friend, determine his life. For that would be slavish; and this is why all flatterers are servile and inferior people are flatterers.

Aristotle

An unconsidered life is not one worth living.

Socrates

By ‘patriotism’ I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people.

George Orwell

The arts are essen­tial to any com­plete national life. The State owes it to itself to sus­tain and encour­age them….Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the rev­er­ence and delight which are their due.

Winston Churchill

I’ve found in my own life that if my writing isn’t going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else.

Sarah Dessen

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

Agatha Christie

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

André Gide

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.

Bill Gates

You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: ‘I’m not going to smoke and I’m not going to drink.’ And I said I’m not going to just say that when I’m a kid. I’m going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.