Life Quotes

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.

Now, I tell you, these... things are not to be obtained by reason of prayers or wishes. If they were to be obtained by reason of prayers or wishes, who here would lack them? It's not fitting for the disciple of the noble ones who desires long life to pray for it or to delight in doing so. Instead, the disciple of the noble ones who desires long life should follow the path of practice leading to long life. In so doing, he will attain long life.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. Work hard.

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind towards all beings, and loving-kindness towards all the world.

To live in the consciousness of the inevitability of suffering, of becoming enfeebled, of old age and of death, is impossible. We must free ourselves from life, from all possible life.

Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering, full of tribulation. This one should wisely understand, one should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.