Life Quotes
Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.Unknown
Life without a friend is death without a witness.Danish prove
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
Life is a dead - End street.Henry Louis Mencken
Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.Johann von Goethe
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick - Sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.John Keats
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.Benjamin Disraeli
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.Elizabeth Bowen
Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)
No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.Raymond Holliwell
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.Christopher Morley
Life is playfulness... we need to play so that we can rediscover the magical around us.Flora Colao
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.William James
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.Alice Walker, Living by the Word, 1988
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.Soren Kierkegaard
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead... While you do not know life, how can you know about death.Confucius
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.David Searls
There are three intolerable things in life - Cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.Orson Welles
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.Ann Landers
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.Henry Van Dyke
Death ends a life, not a relationship.Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.Dax Ward
Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Life - Transforming ideas have always come to me through books.Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003
Life must be lived as play.Plato
And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.Fred Allen
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.Carl Jung
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.Chinese Prove
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.Helen Kelle
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.Ayn Rand
Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments.Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.Herb Caen
