Life Quotes
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.Cyril Connolly
In this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his resurrection, a conqueror in his ascentions, a kind in his intercession, a high priest.Martin Luthe
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values.Norman Thomas
Whose life is it anyway?Brian Clark, Play title
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.Les Brown
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.Muriel Spark
Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.M. Scott Peck
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.George Eliot
Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.Harry S Truman
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.Brendan Gill
There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.Martin Luthe
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.William Shakespeare
They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.Plato
I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.William Orville Douglas
Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.Russell G. Alexande
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.Samuel Johnson
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.George Bernard Shaw
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.Anatole France
The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.Thomas Jefferson
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - Not to have run away.Dag Hammarskjold
Three things in human life are important the first is to be kind the second is to be kind and the third is to be kind.Henry James
Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.Kabbalah
Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.M. R. Vincent
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.John Christian Bovee
In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.Aristotle
You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty - Four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.Thomas Arnold Bennett
Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.Percy B. Shelley
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.Carl Jung
My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.Miles Davis
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.M. C. Richards
