Life's Limitations Quotes

I think it's important to have as many experiences as possible in life because one day you won't be able to do it anymore.

Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible, feel, as they stand on the edge of the grave, that they are but human acorns with all their possibilities still in them, just beginning to sprout.

To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.

For the sort of potential that a human being carries, it is a very brief life.

You can't get what you want all the time in life.

We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life

In life, one is entitled to a side dish of either coleslaw or potato salad, and the choice must be made in terror, with the knowledge that not only is our time on earth limited but most kitchens close at ten.

You don't get everything you want. That doesn't exist in this realm.

O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

I think that you cannot have everything in life, and sometimes you just - destiny wants you to take another path.

We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out.

There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, will be taken from you. In time.

There are no do overs and some things just aren't going to happen. It is a little sad but you just have to embrace what is

Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Now ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford.

The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When a person passes his prime and his life begins to lose true vigor and charm, his mind starts functioning as if it were another form of life; it imitates what life does, eventually doing what life cannot do.

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be.

How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the way things can be, and thought a little more imaginatively about the way things might be.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment of pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong?