Life Quotes

Barbara de angelis - the journey in between what you once were, and...
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T. Washington
Terry josephson - no matter where you go or what you do, you live...
Lydia sigourney - in early childhood you may lay the foundation of...
My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
James Dean
To know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Emerson
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.
William Hazlitt
Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition...
Amelia Ba
Challenges are what make life interesting overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Joshua J. Marine
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
Martin Luthe
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Eugene Delacroix
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...
Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
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
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Cato the Elde
So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.
Alfred Austin
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
James F. Byrnes
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.
Albert Einstein
What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.
Srully D. Blotnick
Life is like an ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.
Sharon Salzberg
The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
Unknown
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
James Barrie
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - The sea - The sun.
Katherine Mansfield
We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart.
Hannah Whitall Smith
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges
The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.
Plutarch
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
Sallust
This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Thomas Mann
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life but the same thing can be said of the most weak.
Eric Amble
Life is a progress, and not a station.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
Vida D. Scudde
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Mary Hemingway
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Ecclesiastes
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Horace, Satires
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 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