Upon Life Quotes

20 quotes by 18 authors

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back,… — Joyce Cary
The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It… — H.G. Wells
Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies… — Helen Keller
Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the… — Edward Abbey
The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it. — Frank Norris
Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon? — Stephen Covey
I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day. — Rosa Parks
When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood. — Swami Vivekananda
The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work. — Raoul Vaneigem
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified,… — Orison Swett Marden
She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and… — Louis Bromfield
If you havenâ€™t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will… — Gustave Flaubert
She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life. — Rudyard Kipling
I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't… — Rosa Parks
Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and… — Carl Jung
You are your greatest investment. The more you store in that mind of yours, the more you enrich your experience, the more people you meet,… — George Matthew Adams
Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life. — William James
I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't… — Rosa Parks

Who Wrote These Upon Life Quotes

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