Life Quotes

It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - Sweet fundamental things such as love.

Laura Ingalls Wilde

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.

Bible

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Stephen Butler Leacock

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication.

Lord Byron, Don Juan

Family means too much, Friends are too valuable, And life is too short, To put - Off sharing with people, How much they really mean to you, And pursuing whatever it is that makes you happy.

Unknown

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

D. H. Lawrence

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Frances Willard

Life is either a continuous process improvement, or a terminal disease that we will all die from anyways.

Randy J. Hinrichs

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

Henry David Thoreau

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, August 2004

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

Unknown

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.

Dr. Thomas Dooley

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Chief Seattle

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.

William O. Douglas

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

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

Dean Koontz, Watchers

Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.

Karen Horney

Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

Michael J. Gel

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet - Scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal - - That is your success.

Henry David Thoreau

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.

Chinese Prove

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

G. H. Hardy

One should count each day a separate life.

Seneca

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

Buddha

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)

The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.

Florence Shinn

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Maxim Gorky

The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.

Abraham J. Heschel

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Anita Brookne

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

Bette Davis

A man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.

James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment