Life Quotes
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery Forbid it, Almighty God I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.Patrick Henry
Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.Augusta Jane Evans
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good.Lyndon B. Johnson
May you live all the days of your life.Jonathan Swift
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.Frances Willard
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
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Berthald Auerbach
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.Henri Frdric Amiel
A good book is the precious life - Blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.John Milton
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.Pablo Casals, O Magazine, October 2003
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.Og Mandino, The Greatest Miracle in the World
Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.Henry David Thoreau
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.Clifton Fadiman
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.Stella Adle
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.S? ren Kierkegaard
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.Mark Twain
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.Albert Einstein
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.Marilyn Ferguson
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Thomas Jefferson
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.Hubert Humphrey
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.Thich Nhat Hanh
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.Beryl Markham
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.Rene Descartes
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.Whittaker Chambers
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.Samuel Johnson
Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.Blaise Pascal
May you live every day of your life.Jonathan Swift
When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system.Robert A. Heinlein
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.George Bernard Shaw
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.Alfred A. Montapert
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.Gustave Flaubert
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.Phyllis McGinley
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.Deepak Chopra
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.Booker T. Washington
