Life Quotes
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.Henry David Thoreau
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.Benjamin Franklin
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.Robert A. Heinlein
Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.M. R. Vincent
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.Henry David Thoreau
Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments.Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - The sea - The sun.Katherine Mansfield
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we all take a little of each other everywhere.Tim McGraw
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.Norman Cousins
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.Joseph Addison
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.Albert Einstein
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.Hubert H. Humphrey
One thing is clear to me. You cant know everything youd like to know. You cant do everything youd like to do. You cant read everything youd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.Real Live Preache
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.Austin Farra
Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non - Being.The Dhammapada
Life without a friend is death without a witness.Danish prove
Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.Will Rogers
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.Joseph Chilton Pearce
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.Henry Boye
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.Henry David Thoreau
Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.Albert Camus
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.Pablo Casals, O Magazine, October 2003
I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty... This is my highest and best use as a human.Ben Stein, E! Online, 12 - 20 - 03
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.George Bernard Shaw
Whether they ever find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.Paul Tournie
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.Herbert Spence
Life is simply the pursuit of something worth dying for.David Van Boom
Life is like an ice - Cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.Charles M. Schulz, as "Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip
Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.Piero Ferrucci
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.Susan Polis Schutz
Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.Anonymous
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.Henry David Thoreau
A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.Albert Schweitze
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.William Shakespeare
The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
