Phrases about people with meaning. Wise, positive and short sayings about the lives of great people

Try asking a person in love what the meaning of life is. Any lover. It is not necessary that he be an academic or a philosopher. In a state of love, any person knows what the meaning of life is - in love. The Polish writer Stanislaw Lem, although a science fiction writer, but absolutely correctly and realistically noticed: we do not need to conquer space, we are in the stupid position of a person rushing towards a goal that he is afraid of. Human needs human.

As proof of this, the site offers to read wise sayings and other great people about love. So, a selection of quotes about love with the meaning of short and not very - to your attention.

Beautiful quotes about love

Real intimacy usually starts from afar.
Vladimir Zhemchuzhnikov

Love is the universal energy of life, which has the ability to turn evil passions into creative passions.
Nikolai Berdyaev

Poor is love if it can be measured.
William Shakespeare

Love can change a person beyond recognition.
Terence

When you love, you want to do something in the name of love. I want to sacrifice myself. Want to serve.
Ernest Hemingway"A Farewell to Arms!"

But if you lose faith in love, the world will lose its beauty. Songs will lose their charm, flowers - aroma, life - joy. If you have experienced love, then you know that this is the only true happiness. The most beautiful songs are those that the beloved sings in your presence; the most fragrant flowers are those that he presents; and the only praise worth listening to is that from him. Simply put, life takes on color only when the gentle fingers of Love touch it.
Raja Alsani

What is thirty million worth if you can't buy a trip to the mountains with your girlfriend?
Jack London "Time Waits"

Love is when you want to experience all four seasons with someone. When you want to run with someone from a spring thunderstorm under a lilac strewn with flowers, and in the summer to pick berries with someone and swim in the river. In autumn, cook jam together and seal windows from the cold. In winter - to help survive a runny nose and long evenings, and when it gets cold - to heat the stove together.
Janusz Leon Wisniewski"Martina"

Quotes with meaning about love

What is love? In the whole world, neither man, nor the devil, nor any other thing inspires me so much suspicion as love, for it penetrates deeper into the soul than other feelings. Nothing in the world so occupies, so binds the heart, like love. Therefore, if there is no weapon in the soul that tames love, this soul is defenseless and there is no salvation for it.
Umberto Eco "The Name of the Rose"

How can you love someone without loving them for who they really are? How can you love me and at the same time ask me to completely change, to become someone else?
Romain Gary "Lady L."

If you want someone to stay in your life, never be indifferent to him!

Being unattainable means that you touch the world around you with care. You don't eat five partridges, you eat one... You don't use people and pressure them until they shrivel into nothing, especially the people you love.
Carlos Castaneda"Journey to Ixtlan"

And we also have an excellent selection of quotes with meaning about relationships. These wise sayings will help you understand your relationship with your partner.

Quotes about life and love

We are a bridge across eternity, towering over the sea of time, where we enjoy adventure, enjoy living secrets, choose our disasters, triumphs, accomplishments, unimaginable occurrences, testing ourselves again and again, learning to love, love and love.
Richard Bach "Bridge over Eternity"

It is useless to spend your whole life on one single path, especially if this path has no heart.
Carlos Castaneda"The Teachings of Don Juan"

Quotes about love for every day

Love is when the center of the universe suddenly shifts and moves into someone else.
Iris Murdoch

Love knows neither measure nor price.
Erich Maria Remarque

In fact, love always starts again.
Madame de Sevigne

The sum of our lives is made up of the hours we have loved.
Wilhelm Bush

You truly love only once in your life, even if you yourself did not understand it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Love knows no "why".
Meister Eckhart

To die of love is to live by it.
Victor Hugo

Of course, not all love ends happily. But even such a feeling is beautiful, despite the fact that it is, for example, unrequited or breaks your heart.

Quotes about unrequited love

The broken heart grows wider.
Emily Dickinson

The best way to heal a broken heart is to break it again.
Yanina Ipohorskaya

The longing for the lost is not as painful as the longing for the unfulfilled.
Minion McLaughlin

To try to forget someone means to remember him all the time.
Jean de La Bruyère

Love is so short, oblivion is so long...
Pablo Neruda

All love is terrible. All love is a tragedy.
Oscar Wilde

If two people love each other, it cannot end happily.
Ernest Hemingway

But we believe that everyone will find their love - mutual, bright and for life. Love, which will fit the following statements and phrases.

Quotes about love are wise and beautiful

Love is stronger than death and fear of death. Only it, only love keeps and moves life. .

Human life is like a box of matches. Taking her seriously is ridiculous. Being careless is dangerous.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke

Every life creates its own destiny.
A. Amiel

The life of most people is like a vague, incoherent dream, like the dreams of a half-asleep. We sober up only when life ends.
author unknown

The life of people who seek only pleasure is, in essence, nothing more than a prolonged suicide; they are certainly trying to justify Seneca's saying: we don't get life short, but we make it so.
author unknown

To live is to make things, not to acquire them.
Aristotle

Life without a goal is a man without a head.
Assir.

All life will fly by like a crazy wind,
You can't stop her at any cost.
Y. Balasaguni

Life is an alternation of all sorts of combinations, they need to be studied, monitored in order to remain in an advantageous position everywhere.
O. Balzac

Strong life shocks heal from small fears.
O. Balzac

A man is amazingly arranged - he is upset when he loses wealth, and is indifferent to the fact that the days of his life are irretrievably gone.
G. Bar-Ebraya

Life is the art of making big gains from little circumstances.
S. Butler

To live is the same as to love: the mind is against it, a healthy instinct is for it.
S. Butler

To live in society, to bear the heavy yoke of positions, often insignificant and vain, and to want to reconcile the benefits of self-love with the desire for fame - is a truly vain demand.
K. Batyushkov

It's not about how long we live, but how.
N. Bailey

Perishes in the stream of time only that which is devoid of a strong grain of life and which, therefore, is not worth living.
V. Belinsky

Life is a trap and we are mice; others manage to break the bait and get out of the trap, but most of them die in it, and the bait can only be smelled. Silly comedy, damn it.
V. Belinsky

To live means to feel and think, to suffer and be blissful, any other life is death.
V. Belinsky

Many people live without living, but only intending to live.
V. Belinsky

To find one's own path, to know one's place - this is everything for a person, it means for him to become himself.
V. Belinsky

“It is beautiful to live” is not just an empty sound.
Only the one who multiplied beauty in the world
Labor, struggle - he lived his life beautifully,
Truly crowned with beauty!
I. Becher

It is worth living only in such a way as to make immeasurable demands on life.
A. Blok

A person's real life begins at the age of fifty. During these years, a person masters what true achievements are based on, acquires what can be given to others, learns what can be taught, clears what can be built on.
E. Bock

Man does not live by bread alone. Making money, accumulating material power - that's not all. Life is something more, and a person who does not notice this truth is deprived of the greatest joy and pleasure available to a person in this life - service to other people.
E. Bock

To live is to fight, to fight is to live.
P. Beaumarchais

We cripple life with our follies and vices, and then complain about the misfortunes that followed them, and say that misfortune is inherent in the very nature of things.
C. Bowie

The first thing you know in life is that you are a fool. The last thing you know is that you're still the same fool.
R. Bradbury

Anyone who lives for the sake of others - for the sake of his country, for the sake of a woman, for the sake of creativity, for the sake of the starving or persecuted - as if by magic, forgets his anguish and petty everyday troubles.
A. Morua

Life is a battle, and we must prepare for it from childhood.
A. Morua

Life is not a holiday, not a chain of pleasures, but work, in which sometimes there is a lot of sorrow and a lot of doubts.
S. Nadson

Changing every moment your whimsical image,
Capricious, like a child, and ghostly, like smoke,
Life boils everywhere in a fussy anxiety,
Great mixed with the insignificant and ridiculous.
S. Nadson

Anyone who makes an attempt to live life to the fullest, to live in order to feel life, is doomed to be misunderstood and suffer constant disappointment in their relationships with other people.
R. Aldington

Live and make mistakes. This is life. Don't think that you can be perfect - that's impossible. Temper yourself, your character, so that when the test comes - and this is inevitable - you could deceive yourself with common truths and loud phrases ...
R. Aldington

Life is a wonderful adventure, worthy of enduring failures for the sake of success.
R. Aldington

A turbulent life is tempting for remarkable minds, mediocrities find no consolation in it: in all their actions they are like machines.
B. Pascal

This is how all life goes: they seek peace, fearing to struggle against several obstacles; and when these obstacles are removed, peace becomes unbearable.
B. Pascal

Life is constant work, and only he understands it in a completely human way who looks at it from this point of view.
D. Pisarev

Life is like a spectacle; in it very bad people often occupy the best places.
Pythagoras

Life is like a game: some come to compete, others to trade, and the happiest to watch.
Pythagoras

A long life with a healthy consciousness allows you to look at yourself from the outside and marvel at the changes in yourself.
M. Prishvin

Life itself is short, but when it is unhappy, it seems long.
Publius Cyrus

Those who are only going to live all their lives live poorly.
Publius Cyrus

Only those who do not know the difference between "mine" and "yours" have a calm life.
Publius Cyrus

A gift in vain, a gift random,
Life, why are you given to me?
A. Pushkin

I want to live in order to think and suffer.
A. Pushkin

Life is an art in which people often remain amateurs. To live, one must shed a lot of the blood of one's heart.
Carmen Silva

Human life is like iron. If you use it in business, it is erased; if not used, rust will eat it.
Cato the Elder

I don't live to eat, I eat to live.
Quintilian

The most beautiful life is a life lived for other people.
X. Keller

Life is not about living, but about feeling that you are living.
V. Klyuchevsky

Life teaches only those who study it.
V. Klyuchevsky

Prosperity, misfortune, poverty, wealth, joy, sadness, poverty, contentment are different phenomena of one historical drama in which people rehearse their roles for the edification of the world.
Kozma Prutkov

Our life can be conveniently compared with a capricious river, on the surface of which a boat floats, sometimes rocked by a quiet streaming wave, often delayed in its movement by a shallow and broken on an underwater stone. Is it necessary to mention that this fragile boat in the market of fleeting time is none other than man himself?
Kozma Prutkov

The tasks given to us by life are not answered in the end.
Kozma Prutkov

There are three ways for a person to act wisely: the first, the most noble, is reflection; the second, the easiest, is imitation; the third, the most bitter, is experience.
Confucius

In the school of life, underachievers are not left for a second course.
E. Meek

Life is a school, but one should not rush to finish it.
E. Meek

You have to live in such a way that you want to repeat.
B. Krutier

Whoever can fill every moment with deep content, infinitely prolongs his life.
I. Kuri

Most people spend most of their lives making the other half miserable.
J. La Bruyère

Life is a tragedy for the one who feels, and a comedy for the one who thinks.
J. La Bruyère

Life is what people strive to preserve most of all and cherish least of all.
J. La Bruyère

A man must use the first part of his life to converse with the dead (read books); the second to talk to the living; the third is to talk to yourself.
P. Buast

Only participation in the existence of other living beings reveals the meaning and foundation of one's own existence.
M. Buber

... It is easy to live for someone who is impudent, like a crow, impudent, obsessive, reckless, spoiled. But it is difficult to live for someone who is modest, who is always looking for the pure, who is impartial, cold-blooded, perspicacious, whose life is pure.
Buddha

A life worthy of its name is a dedication to the good of others.
B. Washington

One must enter into life not as a cheerful reveler, as into a pleasant grove, but with reverent awe, as into a sacred forest full of mystery.
V. Veresaev

Life is not a burden, and if someone turns it into a burden, then he himself is to blame.
V. Veresaev

Life is the most interesting adventure that people are given to experience.
J. Bern

To live means not only to satisfy the material needs of the organism, but, mainly, to be aware of one's human dignity.
J Bern

To live means to burn oneself with the fire of struggle, searching and anxiety.
E. Verharn

Life is what people receive without expressing gratitude, use it without hesitation, pass it on to others in unconsciousness and lose it without noticing it.
Voltaire

I still love life. This absurd weakness is perhaps one of our most fatal shortcomings: after all, nothing can be more stupid than the desire to constantly carry a burden that you want to throw down on the ground, to be horrified by your existence and drag it out.
Voltaire

From any road you turn back,
And only the road of life is irrevocable.
R. Gamzatov

Life is an almost continuous chain of one's own discoveries.
G. Hauptman

It is impossible to make up for anything in life - everyone should learn this truth as early as possible.
X. Goebbel

Life is endless improvement. To consider yourself perfect is to kill yourself.
X. Goebbel

All strong people love life.
G. Heine

Life is not in vain for people who have awakened at least some strong thought ...
A. Herzen

A life that does not leave lasting traces is erased with every step forward.
A. Herzen

Life is my natural right: I dispose of the master in it, I push my “I” into everything around me, I fight with it, opening my soul to everything, sucking it, the whole world, I melt it, as in a furnace, I am aware of the connection with humanity, with infinity .
A. Herzen

A private life that knows nothing beyond the threshold of its home, no matter how it settles down, is poor.
A. Herzen

You actually live only when you take advantage of the favor of others.
I. Goethe

Only he is worthy of life and freedom,
Who goes to battle for them every day.
I. Goethe

Life and activity are as closely connected with each other as flame and light. What burns, it truly shines, what lives, then, of course, acts.
F. Glinka

Life cannot be so hard that it cannot be made easier by one's attitude towards it.
E. Glasgow

Whoever wants to live his life honestly must bear in mind in his youth that someday he will be an old man, and in old age remember that he too was once young.
N. Gogol

It is impossible to live in the world without sacrifices, without efforts and hardships: life is not a garden in which only flowers grow.
I. Goncharov

Life is a struggle, in the struggle is happiness.
I. Goncharov

Life “for oneself and to oneself” is not life, but a passive state: one needs a word and a deed, a struggle.
I. Goncharov

Life does not give anything without hard work and unrest.
Horace

Whoever delays in ordering his life is like that simpleton who waits by the river when it carries its waters.
Horace

There are only two forms of life: rotting and burning. Cowardly and greedy will choose the first, courageous and generous - the second.
M. Gorky

Life goes on: who does not keep up with it, he remains lonely.
M. Gorky

Life is arranged so devilishly skillfully that, without knowing how to hate, it is impossible to sincerely love.
M. Gorky

Human life is ridiculously short. How to live? Some stubbornly avoid life, others devote themselves entirely to it. The first on the slope of days will be poor in spirit and memories, others will be rich in both.
M. Gorky

The life of mankind is creativity, the desire for victory over the resistance of dead matter, the desire to master all its secrets and force its forces to serve the will of people for their happiness.
M. Gorky

It is not true that life is gloomy, it is not true that it contains only ulcers and groans, grief and tears!.. It contains everything that a person wants to find, and he has the strength to create what is not in it.
M. Gorky

Life is fuller and more interesting when a person struggles with what prevents him from living.
M. Gorky

Real life is not much different from a good fantasy tale, if viewed from the inside, from the side of desires and motives that guide a person in his activities.
M. Gorky

A person must do something all his life - all his life.
M. Gorky

A person who does not know what he will do tomorrow is unhappy.
M. Gorky

To live, one must be able to do something.
M. Gorky

Life has little to teach one who has not learned to endure suffering.
A. Graf

Life is a heavy duty feat, and not pleasure and a path to personal happiness.
N. Grotto

I don't know what our fate is ahead,
But here our fate is visible:
We go out with life one on one,
And she wins us.
I. Huberman

Life has a melody, a motive,
Harmony of plots and tonality,
A rainbow of random prospects
Sheltered in a monotonous reality.
I. Huberman

Among the influences that shorten life, fear, sadness, despondency, melancholy, cowardice, envy, and hatred occupy a predominant place.
X. Hufeland

Do not bow to anyone and do not expect that they will come to bow to you - this is a joyful life, a golden age, the natural state of man!
J. La Bruyère

The greatest of books is the book of life, which can neither be closed nor reopened at will.
A. Lamartine

It is impossible to live in society and be free from society.
V. Lenin

Life advances in contradictions, and living contradictions are many times richer, more versatile, more meaningful than it seems to the human mind at first.
V. Lenin

To change, remaining, or to continue, changing - this is what truly constitutes the normal life of a person.
P. Leroux

Life is like the ocean
And we are all just fishermen:
We dream to fish out a whale,
And we get cod tail.
F. Logau

There should be some rainy weather in every life.
G. Longfellow

Life reaches its peaks in those moments when all its forces are directed to the implementation of the goals set for it.
D. London

It's not enough for me to live. I still want to understand what life is.
A. Losev

Life is not given to anyone as property, but only for a while.
Lucretius

We must live with spread wings.
S. McKay

Attaching one good deed to another so closely that there is no gap between them is what I call enjoying life.
Marcus Aurelius

The first half of life consists of the ability to take pleasure in the absence of opportunities; the other half consists of opportunities in the absence of ability.
Mark Twain

The events of our lives are mostly small events, they only seem big when we stand close to them.
Mark Twain

Good friends, good books and a slumbering conscience - this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain

The more insignificant your being, the less you manifest your life, the greater your possessions, the greater your alienated life...
K. Marx

Some love life for what it is given, others for what it gives.
G. Matyushov

Life is divided into two eras: the era of desires and the era of aversion.
G. Mechan

Life is beautiful if you learn to live.
Menander

How sweet it is to live when you live with whom you want!
Menander

Life is not an easy task, and the first hundred years are the most difficult.
W. Mizner

Life in itself is neither good nor evil: it is a receptacle for both good and evil, depending on what we ourselves have turned it into.
M. Montaigne

Everyone lives well or badly, depending on what he himself thinks about it. Satisfied is not the one whom others think is content, but the one who considers himself to be such.
M. Montaigne

The measure of life is not in its duration, but in how you use it.
M. Montaigne

We learn to live when life has already been lived.
M. Montaigne

Life is a mountain: you go up slowly, you go down quickly.
G. Maupassant

Take a look - the real life is right next to you. She is in flowers on the lawn; in a lizard basking in the sun on your balcony; in children who look tenderly at their mother; in kissing lovers; in all these houses where people try to work, love, have fun. There is nothing more important than these modest destinies.
A. Morua

Life requires a faithful eye and a steady hand. Life is not tears, not sighs, but a struggle, and a terrible struggle ...
V. Rozanov

Terrible emptiness of life. Oh how terrible she is...
V. Rozanov

Life is harsh, but for a person with a strong spirit, it is beautiful and interesting, despite all the difficulties.
R. Rollan

It is not at all reprehensible to extract from one's craft the means of life, even for a "respectable" life, but one must at least try to make these benefits and this craft serve the society.
R. Rollan

To live means to fight, and not only for life, but also for the fullness and improvement of life.
I. Rubakin

Life lasts only a moment; in itself it is nothing; its value depends on what has been done... Only the good done by a person remains, and thanks to him life is worth something.
J. J. Rousseau

We care most about life as it loses its value; old people regret it more than young people.
J. J. Rousseau

Not the person who lived the most who can count more than a hundred years, but the one who felt life the most.
J. J. Rousseau

Life itself means nothing; its price depends on its use.
J. J. Rousseau

They don't live twice, and there are many who don't know how to live once.
F. Ruckert

Life is not a spectacle and not a holiday; life is hard work.
D. Santayana

Living in limbo is the most miserable existence: that is the life of a spider.
D. Swift

Life is like a play in the theatre: what matters is not how long it lasts, but how well it is played.
Seneca the Younger

Life is happy if it is consistently based on correct, intelligent judgment. Then the spirit of man is clear; he is free from all kinds of bad influences, freed not only from torments, but also from small pricks: he is always ready to hold the position he has occupied and defend it, despite the fierce blows of fate.
Seneca the Younger

We do not receive a short life, but make it so; we are not poor in life, but use it wastefully. Life is long if it is used skillfully.
Seneca the Younger

Life, not sanctified by a sense of duty, would have, in essence, no value.
S. Smiles

The ship of life yields to all winds and storms if it does not have labor ballast.
Stendhal

There are moments in life when the smallest troubles take on the dimensions of catastrophes in our eyes.
E. Souvestre

The main rule in life is nothing beyond measure.
Terenty

Life is not suffering and not pleasure, but a matter that we must do and honestly bring it to the end.
A. Tocqueville

You can hate life only because of apathy and laziness.
L. Tolstoy

All life is only an aspiration and a gradual approach to perfection, which is unattainable, because it is perfection.
L. Tolstoy

If life does not seem to you a great joy, it is only because your mind is misdirected.
L. Tolstoy

The man has ruined his stomach and complains about dinner. The same is true of people who are dissatisfied with life. We have no right to be dissatisfied with this life. If it seems to us that we are dissatisfied with her, then this only means that we have reason to be dissatisfied with ourselves.
L. Tolstoy

A man who knows his life is like a slave who suddenly finds out that he is a king.
L. Tolstoy

In order to live honestly, one must tear, get confused, fight, make mistakes, start and quit, and start again ... And peace is spiritual meanness ...
L. Tolstoy

The life of the spirit is higher than the life of the flesh and independent of it. Often in a warm body there is a stiffened spirit, and in a fat body - a skinny and frail spirit. What do all the riches of the world mean to us when we are poor in spirit?
G. Toro

Life is nothing but a contradiction constantly conquered.
I. Turgenev

Our life contains only two tragedies. The first is that you cannot satisfy your desires, the second is when they are all satisfied. The latter is much worse than the former, and in it lies the real tragedy of life.
O. Wilde

By the time we understand what our place in life is, what definition we have given ourselves, it is too late to get out of the usual rut.
R. Warren

An existence devoid of needs is an unnecessary existence.
L. Feuerbach

The basis of life is the basis for morality. Where, from hunger, from poverty, you do not have any material in your body, there is no basis and material for morality in your head, in your heart and in your feelings.
L. Feuerbach

Life in ignorance is not life. He who lives in ignorance only breathes. Knowledge and life are inseparable.
L. Feuchtwanger

Life is a constant process of rebirth. The tragedy of life for most of us is that we will die before we are fully born.
E. Fromm

Life is a mirage, nevertheless be joyful,
In passion and intoxication - be joyful.
You lived for a moment - and you are no longer there,
But at least for a moment - be joyful!
O. Khayyam

Life is short, but glory can be eternal.
Cicero

To live is to think.
Cicero

A short life is given to us by nature, but the memory of a life well spent remains eternal.
Cicero

After life, only that which he acquired with his moral qualities and good deeds remains.
Cicero

Living for others means living for yourself.
P. Chaadaev

Life is so wide and many-sided that in it a person will almost always find his fill of everything, to look for what he feels a strong and true need.
N. Chernyshevsky

Life is empty and colorless only for colorless people who talk about feelings and needs, in fact not being able to have any special feelings and needs, except for the need to show off.
N. Chernyshevsky

A person can never lose the desire to improve his life.
N. Chernyshevsky

Life is always serious, but it is impossible to live always seriously.
G. Chesterton

The contemplative life is often very bleak. You need to act more, think less and not be an outside witness to your own life.
N. Chamfort

For some, life is a battle, for others it is a prayer.
I. Shevelev

Life never fits into patterns, but without patterns it is impossible to navigate life.
I. Shevelev

Life is made up of temporary gains and untimely losses.
I. Shevelev

Some burn themselves in life, others burn through life.
I. Shevelev

Sometimes, only having lived a life, a person realizes what his life purpose was.
I. Shevelev

To live only for oneself is an abuse.
W. Shakespeare

All-round life - only public.
N. Shelgunov

To live is to act with energy; life is a struggle in which one must fight bravely and honestly.
N. Shelgunov

A life well lived should be measured in deeds, not in years.
R. Sheridan

There are good reasons to be distrustful of life. She has deceived us so many times in our most cherished expectations.
L. Shestov

Everything is beautiful only as long as it does not affect us personally. Life is never beautiful: only its pictures in the purified mirror of art are beautiful.
A. Schopenhauer

Every day is a small life: every awakening and rising is a small birth; every fresh morning is a little youth; any preparation for sleep and falling asleep is a small death.
A. Schopenhauer

Life is, in essence, a state of need, and often of distress, where everyone must strive and struggle for his existence, and therefore cannot constantly assume a friendly expression.
A. Schopenhauer

The first forty years of life give us the text, and the next thirty provide commentaries on it.
A. Schopenhauer

From the point of view of youth, life is an infinitely distant future; from the point of view of old age, a very short past.
A. Schopenhauer

To go our way in the world, it is useful to take with us a great store of foresight and indulgence: the first will protect us from losses and losses, the second from disputes and quarrels.
A. Schopenhauer

Life, happy or unhappy, successful or unsuccessful, is still extremely interesting.
B. Show

The life of an individual person has meaning only to the extent that it helps to make the life of other people more beautiful and nobler.
A. Einstein

Life is short, but honest, always prefer life long, but shameful.
Epictetus

Human life is nothing but a kind of comedy in which people, putting on masks, each play their own role.
Erasmus of Rotterdam

Appreciate aphorisms about life with meaning - short, well-aimed statements that reflect the deep essence. What is an aphorism and how does it differ from a proverb? What aphorisms from famous people do we know?

What characterizes an aphorism?

As already mentioned, usually aphorisms are short and precise quotations expressing a view on the issue raised from a certain angle. Usually it touches on something that we constantly encounter, or a philosophical question, for example, about life and death.

An aphorism is distinguished from a proverb by the presence of the author to whom it belongs, and the specifics - it is used in a known context. It is not as sonorous as a proverb, rarely in poetic form. Often an aphorism, having undergone some changes over time from oral transmission among the people, becomes a proverb.

Some aphorisms about life with meaning, short and to the point:

“Health cannot be bought with money, but it can be spent.”
“Marriage is not a social status, it is a medal. It's called "For Courage!".
"They forgive those they love what they would not forgive others, and they do not forgive what they forgive strangers."
“Life is such a precious gift that it should be lived wisely. She is the greatest miracle that can happen to us."

Aphorisms from the Holy Scriptures

In the book of the Bible, you can also find many quotes, which, in fact, are aphorisms about life with meaning, short, catch phrases. For example, here are some words of Jesus Christ:

“It is not what goes in (food) that makes a man impure, but what comes out of him.”
"Where your treasure is, there your heart will be."
"With what judgment you judge, so shall you be judged."
"A tree is known by its fruits, so are false prophets by their deeds."
“Much is forgiven to the one who shows great love, but to the one who is forgiven little, he loves little.”
"Faith the size of a mustard seed can move mountains."
“Not healthy people need a doctor, but, on the contrary, sick people.”
“We have brought nothing into the world and we cannot take anything out of it, having food and clothing, we will be satisfied with this (Apostle Paul).”
"Make no mistake: bad community will ruin good habits."

The last quote of the Apostle Paul, written about 2000 years ago, is consonant with the modern proverb "with whom you lead, you will get." Undoubtedly, the Bible contains the best aphorisms about life.

Aphorisms from those who are considered great

Consider some aphorisms of great people. Probably, each of the scientists, writers and other celebrities wrote about life, friendship, love.

“In each of us, what a person nourishes blossoms. This is the eternal law of nature. (Goethe).
"Everyone hears only what he can understand." (Goethe).
"A mother's heart is a bottomless source of miracles." (Honore de Balzac).
"Fame is an unprofitable commodity: high cost and poor preservation." (Honore de Balzac).
"Living people should be treated kindly, but only the truth should be told about the dead." (Voltaire).
“Do you love life? Then don't waste the time of which it consists." (B. Franklin).
“Usually those who complain about life expected the impossible from it.” (J. Renan).
"A person begins to live only after she has managed to surpass herself." (Einstein).
“Life can be lived in two ways: as if there were no miracles, or as if there were only miracles around.” (Einstein).
“It is impossible to cope with the problem, remaining on the same level with it. To solve it, you need to rise above it to a higher level. (Einstein).

Aphorisms from antiquity

Some clever aphorisms about life have come down to us from long-lived philosophers. For example, these:

“If you want not to be afraid of what you are afraid of, change your attitude towards it.” (Marcus Aurelius).
“If you knew the source from which the judgments and interests of people flow, you would stop seeking approval and praise from the majority.” (Marcus Aurelius).
“Poor is not the one who has little, but the one who desires a lot.” (Seneca).
"You cannot heal the body without healing the soul." (Socrates).
"To say a lot is not the same as to say a lot." (Sophocles).
"The more numerous the laws of a state become, the nearer its fall." (Cornelius Tacitus).

Quotes with meaning from great Russians

The famous writer Leo Tolstoy in his works used many phrases that summarize the essence of the phrase, which have become aphorisms today. For example, these:

“Most husbands expect their wives to have virtues they themselves are not worthy of.”
“The educator himself must know life deeply in order to prepare others for it.”
"Power over oneself is the highest power, enslavement to one's own passions is the worst slavery."
"Happiness is the feeling of pleasure without remorse."
“Life does not seem like great joy to one whose thinking is distorted in the wrong direction.”

A. S. Pushkin also used many phrases about life that have become catchphrases:

“We consider everyone to be zeros, and ourselves to be one.”
"There is no return to dreams and years."
"You can't sew buttons on someone else's mouth."
"I cannot sacrifice what is necessary, expecting to receive in return what is superfluous."
"An uninvited guest is worse than a Tatar."

His last quote has become a proverb today. Truly wisdom, like the universe, has no limit.

Quotes about life from Gorky

Alexei Maksimovich, like any writer, thought a lot about being, and in his books there are aphorisms about life with meaning (short ones). For example:

"A book is a book, but move your mind."
“Talent is like a thoroughbred horse: you need to learn how to manage it, but if you pull the reins in all directions, the horse will become a nag.”
"The meaning of life is the perfection of man."
“The greatest pleasure, the highest joy in life is to feel needed by people and close to them.”
“Only deeds remain of a person.”
“People can only choose from two forms of life: rot or burn; the cowardly and the greedy choose the former, but the brave and generous the latter.”

With humor for life

Here are some funny aphorisms about life, with meaning. They are more designed to make us smile.

“Life is like toilet paper: the less you have left, the more you cherish every piece.”
“Don’t wait until happiness comes, it’s better to step into it yourself.”
“Friends are those who know us quite well and still treat us well.”
“In life there is always a place for a holiday, it remains only to get to this place yourself.”
“The trouble is not that there are those who, when drunk, become fools, but that there are sober fools.”
"Man is like a monkey: the higher he climbs, the more he shows his backside."
“If the state calls itself your homeland, then it wants something from you.”
"Only two things have no end: the universe and stupidity, although I'm not sure about the first." (Einstein).

Some people collect quotes like this to look at at their leisure and meditate. Aphorisms are pearls of wisdom designed to make us better. Will people appreciate them?

We ourselves choose our thoughts that build our future life. 100

In order to learn to tell the truth to people, one must learn to tell it to oneself. 125

The surest way to a person's heart is a conversation with him about what he values above all. 119

When trouble happens in life, you just need to explain to yourself its cause - and your soul will feel better. 61

The world is boring for boring people. 111

Learn from everyone, don't imitate anyone. 127

If our life paths diverge from someone, then this person has completed his task in our life, and we - in his. In their place come new people to teach us something else. 159

The most difficult thing for a person is given that which is not given to him. 61 - phrases and quotes about life

You only live once, and you can't even be sure of that. Marcel Achard 61

If once you regret that you did not say, then you will regret a hundred times that you did not keep silent. 59

I want to live better, but I have to have more fun ... Mikhail Mamchich 27

Difficulties begin where they try to simplify. 4

No person can leave us, because initially we do not belong to anyone but ourselves. 68

The only way to change your life is to go where you are not expected 61

Let me not know the meaning of life, but the search for meaning already gives the meaning of life. 44

Life only has a value because it ends, baby. Rick Riordan (American writer) 24

Life is more like a novel than our novels are like life. J. Sand 14

If you don’t have time to do something, then you shouldn’t be able to do it, so you need to spend time on something else. 54

You can’t forbid to live merrily, but you can make it so that you don’t want to laugh. 27

A life devoid of illusions is fruitless. Albert Camus, philosopher, writer 21

Life is hard, but fortunately short (p.s. v. well-known phrase) 13

Nowadays, people are not tortured with red-hot irons. There are noble metals. 29

It is very easy to check whether your mission on Earth is over: if you are alive, it continues. 33

Wise quotes about life fill it with a certain meaning. When you read them, you feel how the brain begins to stir. 40

To understand is to feel. 83

It's so simple: you have to live until you die 17

Philosophy does not answer the question of the meaning of life, but only complicates it. 32

Anything that unexpectedly changes our lives is not an accident. 42

Death is not terrible, but sad and tragic. To be afraid of the dead, cemeteries, mortuaries is the height of idiocy. It is necessary not to be afraid of the dead, but to feel sorry for them and their loved ones. Those whose life was interrupted, not allowing something important to be done, and those who remained forever mourning the departed. Oleg Roy. web of lies 39

We do not know what to do with our short life, but still we want to live forever. (p.s. oh so true!) A. France 23

The only happiness in life is the constant striving forward. 57

In the tears that each of the women shed at the mercy of men, any of them can be drowned. Oleg Roy, novel: The Man in the Window Opposite 31 (1)

Man always strives to be the owner. People need to have houses registered in their name, cars with the right of ownership, their own companies and spouses chained with a stamp in their passport. Oleg Roy. web of lies 29

Now everyone has the Internet, but there is still no happiness ... 46

This section contains wise words about life, various great famous people. After all, many are wondering about the meaning of life. Read and think!

“Everything returns to its circles; how much and how it arrives, so much will disappear anyway, a holy place is never empty, and for every strength ... there is ... even greater strength ”(Russian folk wisdom).

“Everything goes its own way, every thing has its place, every vegetable has its time” (Russian folk wisdom).

“There is a time for everything, and a time for every thing under heaven. A time to be born, and a time to die…” (Ecclesiastes)

“Everything that has a beginning has an end; how many ropes do not twist, the tip will be ”(Russian folk wisdom).

“For everyone around us, we create only rules, but for ourselves we create only exceptions” (Lemel)

“Nothing passes without a trace, something always remains” (Russian folk wisdom).

“Life is what happens when you make completely different plans” (J. Lennon)

“It is worth living your life in such a way that later in old age it would not be a shame for the uselessly lived years.” (Maksim Gorky)

Wealth is not at all about what coat you wear, what car you drive, and what a cool phone you have in your hands ...

"Like green leaves on a thick tree - some fall off, while others grow, so is the race of flesh and blood - one dies, and the other is born." (Bible)

“God is not in power, but in truth” (the saying is traditionally attributed to Prince Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky)

so many people die without saying a single smart word and without doing a single truly good deed in their entire long life. And at the same time they still complain about the short life span! (Ali Apsheroni)

As long as we put off life, it passes. (Seneca)

Sunset always comes with dawn.

Wealth is your living parents, healthy children, reliable friends and a strong shoulder of a loved one!

Truly, a person's life lasts one moment, so live and do what you want.

It is foolish to live in this world like a dream, meet with trouble every day and do only what you do not like. (Hagakur)

Lifetime is a chance to express your time here in the most adventurous, most creative way your imagination can imagine.

All people make big plans for how many years ahead. But none of us can know whether he will live until tomorrow morning or not. (Author - Leo Tolstoy)

Everything that happens to us contradicts logic and wise foresight. (Sarah Bernard)
If you successfully choose work and put your soul into it, then happiness will find you.

Life is a mountain climbing slowly, descending quickly. (Guy de Maupassant)

Life is not the days that have passed, but those that are remembered. (P.A. Pavlenko)

Life is a moment. It cannot be lived first on a draft, and then rewritten on a white copy. (A.P. Chekhov)

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is self-creation. (Bernard Show)

Life is a fabric of good and bad threads. (William Shakespie)

Life is not about living, but about feeling that you are living. (V.O. Klyuchevsky)

Life consists of what a person thinks throughout the day. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The truths of life are experienced, not taught. Life has to be lived. (Ali Apsheroni)

To live is to think.

Do you know what is the scariest thing in life? - Don't have time.

Every moment of life is another opportunity.

The world is a mirror, and it returns to each his own image. Frown - and he, in turn, will look sourly at you; laugh at him and with him - and he will become your cheerful, sweet comrade. (William Thackeray)

Wise - who knows what is necessary, and not much.

The wisdom of life is always deeper and more extensive than the wisdom of people.

Don't expect it to get easier, easier, better. It won't. There will always be difficulties. Learn to be happy right now. Otherwise, you won't be able to.

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imagination, our possibilities become limitless.

Surround yourself with those who will lift you higher. The world is already full of those who want to drag you down.

The basis of all wisdom is patience.

The first half of your life you ask yourself what you are capable of, but the second - who needs it?

According to Leibniz, wisdom is "knowledge of the highest good"

Everyone has their own hell - it's not necessarily fire and tar! Our hell is a wasted life!

To be able to enjoy the life lived means to live twice. (Martial)

A man without friends is like a tree without roots.

"... it's time to stop waiting for unexpected gifts from life, and make life yourself." (Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy)

Life is the art of making big gains from little circumstances.

Wisdom tends to open its eyes, but stupidity tends to open its mouth.

This section contains the wisest words about life. These quotes will help you answer many questions. Read and reflect!