Life Quotes
There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.Unknown
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.Aldous Huxley
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.Martha Graham
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.Arthur Schopenhaue
Life is made up of marble and mud.Nathaniel Hawthorne
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.Les Brown
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - From Live Without Principle.Henry David Thoreau
Life is a zoo in a jungle.Peter De Vries
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.Geoffrey F. Abert
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.Henry David Thoreau
The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.William James
Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life.Henry Havelock Ellis
It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Charles Dudley Warne
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.Norman Cousins
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman.Woody Allen
Perhaps each life has one sensational thought, if acted upon will bring great meaning.Michael R. Bae
One thing life has taught me if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.Roosevelt, Eleano
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
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
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - At the age of fifty, say - That a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.Agatha Christie
We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Speech to the graduating class at Harvard (1978)
O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console To be understood as to understand To be loved as to love For it is in giving that we receive It is in pardoning that we are pardoned And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen.Saint Augustine
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.Okakura Kakuzo
The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.Loren Eiseley
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
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...Chief Seattle
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
Just as the sand - Dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.Muriel Spark
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.Zora Neale Hurston
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.Albert Einstein
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values.Norman Thomas
All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
