Life Quotes

Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.

Maurice Druon

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

Charles M. Schulz

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

Swami Sivanada

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

Germaine Gree

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Henry David Thoreau

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

Camille Paglia

I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

Rene Angelil

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carve

Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.

Robert Doisneau

Self - Respect permeates every aspect of your life.

Joe Clark

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Thomas Browne

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Albert Schweitze

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket".

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.

Plato

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Oswald Mosley

Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Life - The way it really is - Is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

Joseph Brodsky

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.

Benjamin Franklin

That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities - That sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one - Dimensional.

Laurie E. Colwin

Life is a bitch get use to her or else she will make you pay for having her.

Mohammad Haroon

My life is one long curve, full of turning points.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

Albert Einstein

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.

Damon Runyon

This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Maitri Upanishads

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Albert Einstein

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - So I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.

M. Cartmill

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Kahlil Gibran

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.

Mark Twain

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

James Joseph Sylveste

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

Lord Byron, Don Juan

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Marie Curie