Life Quotes

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The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Brandon Lee
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Life, at best, is completely unpredictable.
Chrisopher Walken
How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions?
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
Cicero
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
Ayn Rand
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A different language is a different vision of life.
Federico Fellini
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.
Jean Paul Richte
I had learnt to seek intensity? more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
Life must be lived as play.
Plato
Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.
Albert Einstein
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.
Dorothy Parke
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome - To be got over.
Arthur Schopenhaue
War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.
Sun Tzu
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - - It becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Isaac Bashevis Singe
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King
Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.
Philip Howard
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.
Andrew Bonar Law
The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
David Russell
What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.
Iggy Pop
Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
Michael Landon
In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, That is mine.
Abraham Kuype
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.
Pindar, 518 - 438 B. C.
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - To do nothing at all.
Sydney Smith
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
George Farquha
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share our dreams and to share in the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.
Marlin Finch Lupus
When life is kicking others in the teeth, Become a dentist.
Kevin Meyers
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall Smith
He is the better equipped for life. As for swimming, who has the less to carry.
Apuleius
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.
Hendrik W. Van Loon
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
D. H. Lawrence
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Ben Stein
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12