Life Quotes - Page 3

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness.

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

One swallow does not make a summer,
neither does one fine day;
similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.