University of Life Quotes Catalog - Page 3 of 40 - a curated list of all the best quotes about life and how to live it!

“If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments” ― G.K. Chesterton

“We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.” – G.K Chesterton

“Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.” – G.K Chesterton

“The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.” ― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.” ― G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.” ― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.” ― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” ― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

“The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.” ― G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.” ― G.K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“There is the great lesson of ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” – Indira Gandhi

“When people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small, but barely any one in the present really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small.” – Unknown

“People’s opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people, is a secondary consideration.” – Bertrand Russell

“Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.” – Viktor Frankl

“Pleasure is, and must remain, a side effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.” – Viktor Frankl

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.” – Viktor Frankl

“What is to give light must endure burning.” – Viktor Frankl

“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” – Viktor Frankl

“The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life.” – Viktor Frankl

“As to the causation of the feeling of meaninglessness, one may say, albeit in an oversimplifying vein, that people have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning.” – Viktor Frankl

“A life of short duration could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.” – Viktor Frankl