English inspirational quotes and aphorisms about life

Everything ought to be beautiful in a human being: face, and dress, and soul, and ideas.

Everything ought to be beautiful in a human being: face, dress, soul, and ideas.

is wonderful.

All things in their being are good for something.

I am born to be useful.

The good or ill of man lies within his own will.

Life is real, life is earnest.

Life is real, life is sincere.

Life is compared to a voyage.

Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it.

Life would be too smooth if there were no twists and turns.

Life means struggle.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions form insufficient premises.

Life is an art of drawing sufficient conclusions form insufficient premises.

Life is sweet.

Life is beautiful.

Life is fine and enjoyable, yet you must learn to enjoy your fine life.

Life is fine, but you must learn how to enjoy your fine life.

Life is but a hard and tortuous journey.

Life is but a hard and tortuous journey. There is no smooth road in life.

Life is a horse, and either you ride it or it rides you.

Life is like a horse, if you don’t ride it, it will ride you.

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Life is like music. It must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

You can't just follow the music.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Life is painting, not doing arithmetic.

　Life is a leaf of paper white, there on each of us may write his word or two.

　Life is like a leaf of paper white, there on each of us may write his word or two.

Write a sentence or two of your own.

On earth there is nothing great but man; in the man there is nothing great but mind.

The greatest creature on earth is man, and the greatest thing in man is mind.