Insightful Sayings About Life To Teach Us Important Lessons

by allinspiration.com

“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.”
– Erich Fromm

“There is just one life for each of us: our own.”
– Euripides

“Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.”
– Fran Lebowitz

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“In heaven an angel is no one in particular.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Life is half spent before we know what it is.”
– George Herbert

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”
– George Washington Carver

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.”
– Gilda Radner

“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.”
– H. L. Mencken

“You are only young once, but you can be immature forever.”
– Hannah Marks

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
– Harvey Fierstein

“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. ”
– Havelock Ellis

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
– Helen Keller

“The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. ”
– Henry Miller

“Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.”
– Horace

“Life is largely a matter of expectation.”
– Horace

“My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.”
– Hugh Leonard

“Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.”
– Irving Berlin

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”
– Isaac Asimov

“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.”
– J.M. Barrie

“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”
– James Allen

“Life is a long lesson in humility.”
– James M. Barrie

“Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn’t mean that all stories have to, even if that’s what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it’s a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.”
– James Patterson

“A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.”
– Jean Ingelow

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