Life Quotes
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.Anthony Trollope
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.Hagar the Horrible
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.George Santayana
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.William James
By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.Eleanor Marx
Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave.Quentin Crisp
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.Carl Jung
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.Don Miguel Ruiz
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.Katherine Hepburn
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.Gilbert Highet
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - Or are they holding you back.Clement Stone
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.Eric Hoffe
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.Sandra Carey
Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years.Unknown
A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.Unknown
Life is a dead - End street.Henry Louis Mencken
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.Danny Kaye
Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.Barry Schwartz
Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do.Vivian Baxte
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
Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well To pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?Lady Flora Hastings, ? Swan Song?
The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance.Pablo Casals
Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.John Updike
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.Giacomo Leopardi
The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - Such a man may be reckoned a complete man.Confucius
Custom is the great guide of human life.David Hume
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.Storm Jameson
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.Victor Hugo
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.Charles M. Schwa
Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.Mary Lyon
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.Laurence Sterne
