Life Quotes

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton

I have enjoyed greatly the second bloomingsuddenly you find - At the age of 50, say - That a whole new life has opened before you.

Agatha Christie

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

Dudley Field Malone

The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance.

Pablo Casals

You have gone far and we are proud of you always. I know that you will keep your relationship with your Maker as it should be, for after all, that, as you must know, is the most important thing in this life.

Hannah Nixon

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Muriel Spark

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

Cynthia Ozick, O Magazine, September 2002

There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well.

Francis Bacon

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine

I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night.

Margery Cuyle

At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.

Barbara DeAngelis

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman.

Woody Allen

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.

Stanley Lindquist

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

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

William James

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Nathan Hale, last words, 22 September 1776

There must be more to life than having everything.

Maurice Sendak

May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.

Native American Prove

False enchantment can last a lifetime.

W. H. Auden

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Oscar Wilde

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Carl Jung, "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

Eric Hoffe

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Sir Francis Bacon

Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you? re happy and believe in yourself.

Richard Simmons

I am for integrity, if only because life is very short and truth is hard to come by.

Kermit Eby

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

US Declaration of Independence

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania.

Dorothy Parke

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

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Leo Buscaglia

I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not and whether we believe in God or not. So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.

Malcolm Boyd

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Benjamin Disraeli

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Brandon Lee

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

Kenny Ausubel

When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.

Charles A. Stoddard

Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.

Anonymous

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Blaise Pascal

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.

Christopher Morley