Quotes about life

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca the Younger

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to do is to know when to die. Prolonged life has ruined more men than it ever made.

Will Rogers

In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose – stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

Charlie Chaplin

A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people’s property, other people’s money, other people’s labor – other people’s lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile.

George Orwell

Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.

Epictetus

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers – as in a looking glass, darkly – one’s absent friends.

Vincent Van Gogh

We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock – with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos – is alive.

Yvon Chouinard

The notion of the single man began in the 1950’s. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

Hugh Hefner

American industry is spilling over with men who started life even with the leaders, with brains just as big, with hands quite as capable. And yet one man emerges from the mass, rises sheer about his fellows; and the rest remain.

Charles M. Schwab