Life Quotes

Carol burnett - only i can change my life. no one can do it for...
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Henry David Thoreau
Plutarch - the whole life of man is but a point of time let...
There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.
Lewis Black, "Black on Broadway" (2004)
The great omission in American life is solitude... that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.
Marya Mannes
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
The Divine Pymande
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Bertrand Russell
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.
Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003
Joseph addison - if you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance...
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
H. Jackson Browne
Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
It is better to die standing on your feet, than live the rest of your life on your knees.
Emiliano Zapata
Whose life is it anyway?
Brian Clark, Play title
Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
Peter McWilliams
The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life.
John Macy
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts.
John Keats, Letter to Benjamin Bailey, Nov 1817
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
Clarence Darrow
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
Henry David Thoreau
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Barry Switze
The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels Is your heart. Fill you heart with good things and good things will follow you For the rest fo your life.
Unknown
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown
But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.
Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003
The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.
Richard Leide
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Benjamin Disraeli
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George Sand
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
Walter Lippman
I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.
Goldie Hawn
My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. 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
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
Austin Farra
Make your life a mission - Not an intermission.
Arnold Glasgow