Life Quotes
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.Immanuel Kant
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.Charlotte bronte, Jane Eyre, page 62
Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them through his deeds.Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.Henry David Thoreau
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.Lydia Sigourney
Whenever I start getting sad about where I am in my life, I think about the last words of my favorite uncle A truck.Child Age 15
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is merely to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.Leo Rosten
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. - Hercules Furens.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
Make your life a mission - Not an intermission.Arnold Glasgow
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.... Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.Abigail Adams, letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784
Music is essentially useless, as life is.George Santayana
What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ... Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.Ivan Pavlov
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.Unknown
Life is too short to be sensible.Unknown
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.Lin Yutang
If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?Unknown
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.Al Capp
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.Nelson Henderson
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.Lawrence George Durrell
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.Charles Dickens
Answer That you are here - - - That life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.Walt Whitman
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, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11: 11
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.John Barrymore
Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.Erich Fromm
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - Not to have run away.Dag Hammarskjold
It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. 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 change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.Karen Kaiser Clark
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.Buddha
Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.Kahlil Gibran
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.Albert Einstein
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.D. H. Lawrence
A man has to have a code, a way of life to live by.John Wayne, the book "My Life With the Duke".
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.Ralph Waldo Emerson
