Inspirational Quotes on Life

“Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?”

“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”

“Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.”

“We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.”

“The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.”

“We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves; we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine.”

“Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.”

“The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.”

“They do not get their qualities from a class: they belong to that class because they have those qualities.”

“The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.”

“Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.”

“You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”

“Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.”

“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.”

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

“Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.”

“We are what we believe we are.”

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

“It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.”

“With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.”