Life Quotes

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life-becoming a better person.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

The more intelligent a person is, the more he discovers kindness in others. For nothing enriches the world more than kindness. It makes mysterious things clear, difficult things easy, and dull things cheerful.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the Kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgement and profession of the truth by each one of us.

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game.

What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.

Every heart has its own skeletons.

A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: onespiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.

Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.

Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life