Life Quotes

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.[Also known as:]There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.[Vous ne serez jamais heureux si vous continuez à rechercher en quoi consiste le bonheur. Vous ne vivrez jamais si vous recherchez le sens de la vie.]

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.

To be a human among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter – this is what life is, herein lies its task.[Подле меня будут люди, и быть человеком между людьми и остаться им навсегда, в каких бы то ни было несчастьях, не уныть и не пасть – вот в чем жизнь, в чем задача ее.]

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.