Life Quotes

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

This idea of shared humanity and the connections that we make with one another – that’s what, in fact, makes life worth living.

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

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.