Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

Salman Rushdie

Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Franz Kafka

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Charlotte Bronte

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.

Julia Roberts

• Famous

I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.

Julia Roberts

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Theodore Roosevelt

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

Marcel Proust

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.

Buddha

• Wisdom
• Virtue

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

George Eliot

• Beginning

Life is not fair; get used to it.

Bill Gates

I love life because what more is there.

Anthony Hopkins

• Love
• Life

Life is about timing.

Carl Lewis

Our life is made by the death of others.

Leonardo da Vinci

• Death

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Euripides

Appearances are often deceiving.

Aesop

It's not the men in my life, but the life in my men.

Mae West

• Life

I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.

Demi Moore

There's never been a parent in my life.

Shia LaBeouf