Life Quotes
Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.Harry Emerson Fosdick
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.John Harold
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.Benjamin Franklin
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.Christa McAuliffe
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.Charles Dickens
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.Marcel Marceau
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.Robert Frost
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash... Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.Albert Einstein
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.John Henry Cardinal Newman
Make your life a mission - Not an intermission.Arnold Glasgow
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.Dr. Robert Schulle
The most decisive actions of our life - - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - - Are, more often than not, unconsidered.Andre Gide
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator.Johann von Goethe
Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.Samuel Johnson
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.Dr. David M. Burns
The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet - wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.Boris Pasternak
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.James Joseph Sylveste
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
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.Bette Davis
What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.Abraham Lincoln
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.Storm Jameson
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.Aldous Huxley
What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.Iggy Pop
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.W. S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence.Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002
We cannot control the evil tongues of others but a good life enables us to disregard them.Cato the Elde
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.William James
Whether they ever find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Just like the falling rainbow Just like the stars in the sky Life should never feel small.Vearncombe, Black, "Paradise".
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.Steven Weinberg
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.Ryszard Kapuscinski
