Life Quotes

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Plato, The Republic

Californians invented the concept of life - Style. This alone warrants their doom.

Don DeLillo

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

Jonathan Larson

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions?

Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas H. Huxley

Whose life is it anyway?

Brian Clark, Play title

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

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Montesquieu

All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Seneca

My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - - In fact, mostly - - At the expense of everything else in my life.

Stan Getz

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Benjamin Disraeli

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Traditional Indian Saying

When life is kicking others in the teeth, Become a dentist.

Kevin Meyers

If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

Eugene Peterson

Life is pretty simple You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Thomas Peters

To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

Fritz Perls

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

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson

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

Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.

Robert Doisneau

Life is playfulness... we need to play so that we can rediscover the magical around us.

Flora Colao

I never saw an ugly thing in my life for let the form of an object be what it may - Light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut - Throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

Anthony Perkins

Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right.

Alfred Austin

Life is not meaningful to us unless serving an end beyond itself, unless it is of value to someone else.

Abraham J. Herschel

God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably togethe.

Clyde Kluckhohn

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson