Life Measurement Quotes

The way I measure my life is 'Am I better than I was last year?'

People talk about balance. Balance is an awful measure of things because it implies a scale that inevitably tips. I like to look through the filter of, 'Is the life I'm leading consistent with my priorities?' For me, my family is the ultimate litmus test.

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.

Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it.

I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life. What's the point?

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere.

I am not given to making sense out of life - or coming up with some grand narrative on it - other than to measure it by what you think you want to do in life. As for me, I have done what I had wanted to, to the best of my ability. I am satisfied.

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

Living was okay, but it wasn't the breaths people took that measured a life. It was the moments that took those breaths away that mattered the most. And Dev did that every time he looked at her. Naked or not.

A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years.

Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.

At 21, you can live life with reckless abandon, as reckless as your abandon is. Then, at 30, there's something there are the supposed to be's. You're like, "I'm supposed to be doing this. I'm supposed to be doing that." You start measuring your life by what you think you're supposed to be doing. Having recently turned 40, it's like, "What the hell?! Why am I worried about what I'm supposed to be doing? What do I want to do?" You become fine with wherever the road takes you.

It's so much easier to measure life in experience points.

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.

a life is measured by moments like these