Life Quotes

Henry david thoreau - let your life be a counter friction to stop the...
Sir thomas brown - it is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but...
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Gaius Julius Caesa
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Plato, The Republic
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Kelle
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head - On and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
Gene Roddenberry
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.
Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph Addison
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.
Cyril Connolly
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Jewish Prove
Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service.
Bruce Kempe
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.
Albert Pike
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
Edward Morgan Forste
Thomas carlyle - one life - a little gleam of time between two...
The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.
Abraham J. Heschel
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - A place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
D. H. Lawrence
The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Thomas Hobbes, "The Leviathan".
All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
Josh Billings
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas Jefferson
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.
Pindar, 518 - 438 B. C.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
Al Capp
Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.
Unknown
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.
Cicero
Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
Mary Catherine Bateson
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.
Vincent Van Gogh
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
George Gordon Byron
What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.
Searamouche
Education is life itself.
John Dewey
Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Lorime
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.
Mary Manin Morrissey
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to chage the way you think.
Oprah Winfrey
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Muriel Spark